What Will Happen to Us?

Violet DeTorres
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Nine percent of the people

Think its okay

To have the Nazi views

In this day and age

Thats 22 million

To you and me

22 million haters

Of Jews and people like me

I am a person of color

You see

I’ll never be white

I can plainly see

My grandfather fought in the war

My grandfather paid a high price

For me to be here

And not in the fields

Harvesting rice

My grandmother said

Oh so long ago

“ America is where dreams are made”

“Where seeds are sown”

“You can be who you want”

“You can live to be free”

Not under a dictatorship

Like your grandfather and me

We lived with secrets

We lived in fear

Speaking against the government

At night, you would disappear

What will happen to the Jews, the gays, people of color

Those “ life unworthy of life”

(German: Lebensunwertes Leben), including prisoners, degenerate, dissident, people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities (including feebleminded, epileptic, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, deaf, blind) (German: erbkranken), homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain

We will never be part

Of the “ pure race”

The master race

That the Nazis so craved

Will you speak up

For us?

Will you put your life

On the line

When we are the victims

Of the white supremacists crimes?

Or will you let

History repeat itself

Because you were blind

Blind to the hate

Blind to our worst fears

What will happen to us?

Will you even

Shed a tear?

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Violet DeTorres

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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House // " When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" --Maya Angelou

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