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June 2, 2011
By Hgramcracka SILVER, Post Falls, Idaho
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I have an irrepressible desire to live unitl i can be assured the world is better for me having lived in it.

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I do not care what others say,
White is a color.
It is just simple.

White is everywhere.
All around us.
On a peace flag.
A window pane.

It is everywhere red could be.
Everywhere black could be.
Instead It is just white.

We label things now days.
No more are we individuals.
We are black or tan.
Smart or stupid.

Now we are blond and annoying.
Tall and fat.
Cute and tiny.
Short and weird.

Labels kill.
Like WW ll.
If you were a Jew,
You signed your death sentence.

Labels are only opinions.
However, which opinion is right?
Whatever happened to names?
Why are we only statistics?

Remember, white is a color.
We all bleed red.
So aren’t we all colored?

© Hoang P., Rochester, NY

The author's comments:
I was thinking about the color white and how it truly is a color. Then i thought of how we label people as "colored" so i then sparked the question, why do we call dark skinned colored if white is also a color?
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