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Satan

April 26, 2019
By Anonymous

This rape-mixed race

This "Negro"

Taught of his native Africa

Black savages,

Swinging like monkeys

This "Negro"

Accepted this

Make him accept

Obey and worship

People on earth taught

Religion

God looked like

One of their own

"This Negro"

Injected

To worship pale skin and blue eye,

Blond hair

Alien God

The slavemaster

Taught the "Negro"

Black was a

Curse.

Taught "Hate everything black"

Himself.

Admired, respected, brainwashed.

Complexion, more white pollution

White man brainwashed

This "Negro"

Turn the other cheek.

Grin, Scrape, bow,

Be humble.

Dished out.

Devilish white man.

Enjoyed his heaven.

My first reaction

Instinct of the ghetto

Criminal wolf instinct

Jungle streets

Me.

Scoffed at and rejected.

Understand the truth

I have since learned

By the sinner.


The author's comments:

This was my origional blackout poem I did from one of my favorite excerpts in my favorite book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. For me, it represents the amount of pain and suffering my community has had to endure for hundreds of years, and continue to deal with today. The amount of internalized racism I along with every person of color living in the United States has is devastating. I want to make a point and an impact on other communities, to help many realize that racial discrimination is still a problem today, in the 21st century.


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