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Different Color Causes Problems

May 14, 2021
By Mattdog27 BRONZE, Marshfield, Massachusetts
Mattdog27 BRONZE, Marshfield, Massachusetts
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Gandhi says “An eye for an eye makes the world blind” 

The world just sits by and changes their mind 

every time the person they  want to be like changes their mind. 

Why are we still living in a world where  racism still happens

And we are incapable of  moving past it?

it has been almost 221 years, and little improvement has been made! 

            It is easier to say that they hate racism then to stand up and fight for change.

Change will not happen, if we are incapable of changing minds.

 

There was a higher percent of black kids suspended than enrolled

 like there will be more trees chopped down than standing. 

The school doesn't care what they are doing 

as long as they make money and that is the worst part because,

schools should teach the next generation that everyone

is a human no matter what they look like we are all the same and equal. 

We send the next generation to these schools to be educated, to be better than the generation before them; but we are ignorant to

what impact we truly have on today’s generation.

It goes to show how you never know where racism can happen or

why history repeats itself! 

 

Twenty-five percent of black people have listen to another kid

 call them names during games it must be a pain;

 sitting there trying to have fun but then you put down the controller

 and the game is done. You could just be expecting to have fun

 on a game but you never know what a person could say. 

When you are online a person might not know you

 and just assume that it will not bother you.


You have to be careful when online or you might just run into

the wrong spot that you didn’t want to end up in. 

            The entire jail is filled with colored people walking

            down the giant hall and seeing all colored people in the cells

being held for crimes that white people have commited 

            Black people are treated unfairly,

            which should not be happening in today's modern era.

Every black person has to worry every day

that today could be there last day, they never know

what could happen in an instance.

When you could be detained for something

that a white person gets away with.   

 

Racism is like a cough it can come on in a instance

            totally out of the blue and unexpected similar to how

            colored people don’t want racism. 

You just never know what or when you could offend someone

The huge problem is that we always turn a blind eye even

 if we don’t notice we are never truly right till we all understand

the power of our actions.


The author's comments:

I wrote this poem in class and it is all about racism and injustice. 


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