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Hey Readers! I will be updating later this week because i've been so swamped with homework and classwork, Etc... But for my english class it was required that we write a poem for our final grade and I was wondering if you guys would check it out and give me your opinions on it :D Thanks so much in advance! 

Hope you enjoy! And Please I request that everyone that reads this tell me what they think and again, I will be updating later this week :D

Racism 

In 1619, the first slaves touched US soil  

Slave ships carrying countless numbers  

of Men, Women, and Children of African descent  

Black skin, tainting them unfit to be 'Human' 

Instead, they were animals! Property!  

Beaten with whips, paddles, and lashes 

Forced to conform and transform  

into obedient forms 

and work until they could no longer lift sore limbs to  

pick cotton or cut sugar cane  

My 96 year old grandmother 
Once told me a story 
About how slave owners claimed to hate blacks 
But as soon as night came 
The white men would rape the black women 
 
Their stomachs grew large 
And they gave birth to a child 
If the child was white, then he was taken from his mother 
If the child was black, he would remain to grow as a slave 
 
As time went by 
Slavery was abolished 
But on came a new problem 
 

Civil rights... 
 
After the long, hard struggle of slavery 
Blacks were continually treated unequally 
Forced to drink from "colored" water fountains 

sit in the back of the bus 

and attend "colored" schools  
 
But unlike slaves, 

In the 60s  
Blacks weren't afraid to rebel 
People like Rosa Parks 
Who refused to move from the front of the bus 
Martin Luther king 
Who Made a heart-wrenching speech about equality 
Malcolm x, The Black Panther Party, and Joseph Lowery  

Too many activists to list  

Made an impact on the Civil rights movement  

After the assassination of Martin Luther King  

Equality began to spread like wildfire  

My ancestors suffered through slavery  

being forced from African soil to conform to white supremacy  

Fighting...Rebelling, until freedom and equality were opportune 

Now here I stand, as a by-product of the struggle called life  

Here I stand, still being prejudiced against  

One time in my church  

Two old white people  

refused to shake my hand because of the color of my skin 

Because of my heritage and ancestry  

Do you know what it feels like to have someone not want to do something  

As simple as shake your hand in a church? 

Do you know what it feels like to have people underestimate you  

Because of the color of your skin? 

Do you know what it feels like to be stereotyped 

Before you even open your mouth? 

And to those who think "Racism against blacks doesn't exist anymore." 

Tell that to young men like Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till  

Who were killed unjustly by white men 

Causing families to grieve  

simply for the color of their skin 

Open your eyes  

Because it is still here! Still living! Still Breathing! Still surviving! 

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