The Education System Taught Us That Racism Is Passé
A poem
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Your voice
Is a choice
Between life
Or a knife
In the heart
Of the part
That’s colored
But you’re bothered
By the protest
The unrest
You don’t choose
What’s on the news.
You miss life
Without strife
Without looting
Or shooting
That’s not new
It’s just not true
In your reality
That’s a fallacy.
We’re taught
We’re brought
From the start
In the part
Of our lives
In the dives
Of the classroom
We’re groom
That racism
Like fascism
Is of the past
It doesn’t last.
The Civil War
It brought to bore
A subtle lesson
That’s depressin’
To hope for progress
Not for regress
That racism is of the past
It shall not last.
In school
It’s cool
To show
Not know
That racism
Like fascism
Is of yesterday
Not today.
We never learn
What we should yearn
That it’s here
We shall fear
That racism
Like fascism
Was both yesterday
And today.
