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Segregation

March 14, 2010
By stephxbee GOLD, Honolulu, Hawaii
stephxbee GOLD, Honolulu, Hawaii
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Someone's going to hurt you at some point in your life, but it is up to you to decide who is worth it, and who is not.


Who are we?
Are we not all alike?
Black, Asian, Hispanic, White
Our complexions may be different
But inside we are all the same
But though this is known
We still play the same game
We separate ourselves
Conform to the cliques
But years ago
This is what we wanted to fix
Equality was fought for
Integretion was the need
But look around now
We defy those we succeed
Was their struggle for nothing?
Was this all just a joke?
Did today's generation
Overlook was Martin Luther King Jr. spoke?
So we all may say,
"Yes, we are now 'integrated'"
But the truth of the matter is...
We are all still SEGREGATED

The author's comments:
This was a piece I wrote as an assignment in English class for Black History month. This is supposed to open our eyes to the fact that, yes, we have integrated schools and what not, but if we look around, we still have the jock table, the cheerleader table, the nerd table, the loner table, the Hispanic table, the Asian table, the Jamaican table, the Haitian table, etc etc. Though, I, myself, do usually sit at the "Asian table" and hangout with my own kind, I occasionally mix in with all the different cliques.

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