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Poem: Stand Strong in the Struggle
Fighting for Equality & Justice
When you’ve had enough and your spirit is broken
And your head begins to reel
When your heart is shattered in a million pieces
Incapable of being healed
And your soul aches from a pain so deep
That it brings you to your knees
Because you’ve seen too many “strange fruit”
Hanging from the poplar trees
When the cries of terror and shouts for justice
Haunt you in your dreams
And the crimson color of blood-stained streets
Reminds you of their screams
With the chalk outlines and yellow police tape
And bullets that kill with impunity
The proximity of which creeps closer to your door
And gets protected by qualified immunity
When the progress we make in our fight for equality
Is met with violence and fear
Then white backlash hits, and laws get passed
And injustice reigns 400 years
