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The Mind of the Oppressor

March 10, 2021
By itzaan19 BRONZE, Bloomfield, Kentucky
itzaan19 BRONZE, Bloomfield, Kentucky
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Your skin's not allowed to be that hue!
Didn't your daddy leave you too?

You can't possibly be the CEO!
I only like you when you make a free throw.

You don't deserve the new tennis shoes!
How did YOU get them brand new?

Everyone, LOOK he stole those kicks!
Black people can't be rich.

Once upon a time, his granny was a slave!
That's why the poor little black boy can't behave.

Put away the shackles! that's inhumane.
Bring out the handcuffs. It's not the same!

No more whips, that's not allowed.
Instead, we'll crush you on the ground.

No, you aren't working the plantations
Instead, you're slaves to humiliation
Being sold to the system's degradation
STOP! Put your hands in the air, that's the expectation.
Move, and face termination
Obey, and I'll take you to the police station
No, you don't deserve an investigation
We don't care about the legislation
Stop rehearsing for the cross-examination
Your guilt is proven by your coloration
Your skin is the cause of the allegation
In your future, incarceration
Reflect on your skin in isolation
Fighting back, you need rehabilitation
Put your hand on your heart and love your nation.


The author's comments:

As a member of a minority, the struggle for equality feels like a never-ending, unwinnable war. As much as you may not think it, society has been programmed to think like the first part, and some people with more power, abuse it. As it refers to in the second part. 


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