Welcome to America,
where GPA's are low,
dropout rates are high,
and teen pregnancy is a raging trend.
Welcome to America,
where standardized testing defines your worth,
anxiety from school is the norm,
and six hours of homework is more important than your mental health.
Welcome to America,
where it's ok to shoot a black child 6 times,
and you get a reward,
when you can't breathe because a cop profiled you, and proceeded to choke you,
where being a black male or black person in general
automatically makes you a target.
Welcome to America,
where young, white males can shoot up schools
full of innocent children,
and don't get jailed for it,
Welcome to the place of high unemployment and a horrid economy,
of people as fake as their faces,
of contradicting sociocultural values and opinions,
of underlying racism because - damn,
God bless America,
God bless the "Land of the Free,"
And let freedom ring.
YOU ARE READING
Midnight Thoughts of a Black Teen
PoetryA poem I thought up when I heard the verdict of the Michael Brown case and the riots that occured in Ferguson before and after this.
