It has been said

that my people

don't know suffering.

I was told

my people, the Jews,

don't suffer like my

black brothers and sisters. 

No I was not

        in the Holocaust

No I was not

        forced out of my homeland

No I have not 

        experienced enslavement.

I have, however, experienced racism,

just like my black brothers and sisters,

because, although, I am Jewish,

I am of black ancestry

mixed with many others.

My people know the pain of bullets.

My people know what it means to be a target.

But what will it take

for people to stop

only caring about "my people"

and to start caring for "our people"?

When will we, as people, 

stop comparing individual struggles

and start fighting to end our collective struggle?

When will the fight start

to think of us, simply, as people

instead of racial groups?

When wil I be able to say

my people and mean everyone