affirmative action
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The melting pot stopped melting because water can only boil so much when there are no additives;
I am not an addict, but I know addition.
I can churn out chorizo like your ancestors could churn butter.
Picture
Have to get his picture
don’t know his name
never seen him before today
He needs to be punished
They won’t put in the effort without a name
The phrase, “culture and tradition are the enemies of evolution” is the modern artists excuse to erase what had been before, and impose themselves on the works of life. Such misery!
Tis your right!
Thou has becometh a person
Thou has becometh Awesome
What is this?
huh?
I never knew ?
How?
Awesome?
Yes.
Thank you
abird in the skyfell to die, yet a will to driveand mind on restfell into a nestgod blessed! a new kind of test-with feathers, my strengthhis renewal
MCWM
Middle Class White Male working hard every day
Twelve years of school with nothing less than an A
Thirty points shy of a perfect SAT
why is the media scary todayTwenty dudes got married and gaythe world viewed it as okayfor marriage i prayin our flesh we stay the blessed lamb we slayyou want to see my nigtmarestune in and turn on
Sometimes we forget that in this varied world
Among the mix of backgrounds
Ethnicities
Languages
Or whatever makes you stand out
There are people like me
Filling in the "White" box
Even prior to this movement, I have always hated those who seek equality.
I abhor the thought of becoming one with animals that are filthy.
Just why even bother fighting for their rights,
Demo-, people, cracy-, government
A society for, by, and of the people,
But without education, democracy cannot exist,
A society endowed with intellectuals provides the true key,
We are all one
but we live as if divided
we share the same pain and shed blood for what we belive in
Yes we all have issues but let us not incorporate that into violence.
It is their mission,
To gleefully condition,
Our fine nation,
To hate a station,
no lower than themselves.
Did the end of inequality start in Vermont in 1777 or
Did it start in at the end of the first month in 1865. Can we
put a date to the day when people realized civil disobedience was
Did the movement really end?
The feelings, tensions, all amend?
Or does separation still exist?
Hatred and doubt with a twist?
The current world presents ignorance,
Prevalent distrust, shouting for guidance.
Did the movement really end?
The feelings, tensions, all amend?
Or does separation still exist?
Hatred and doubt with a twist?
The current world presents ignorance,
Prevalent distrust, shouting for guidance.
I sit at your table and order a shake
I am not hungry for anything,
save justice.
My stomach aches for an acknowledgement
of my humanity
an ounce of compassion
What did they fight for, Those brave souls marching in the streets?
They wanted equality and justice, These two freedoms guaranteed.
Facing power and gunfire during their fight
It is said to "not judge a book by its cover",
Mama's advice.
Yet I am judged.
Justified by society
and immense disparity.
Who are they to judge me?
Who are they to conspire against me?
The KKK, no shame,
despising me and laughing in my face.
Slavery is equal
Revenge is justice
Life or death
Where’s our breath
We run on feet
We curse with tongues
Hateful words we spray
Vengeance we play
Looking down from heaven the angels sing
Black men, white men let freedom ring
From the north to the south to the east to the west
To the rich to the poor to the wise to the blessed
Extra!
A boy yells from the sidewalk
Handing out factual ink
In exchange for a dime.
Extra!
"Black Man Sent to Prison."
Intellectuals are confused.
He committed no crime.
Extra!
We live in a place
Filled with promises
That are disgraced
Where some are privileged
and others oppressed
While our ignorance continues
This disgrace
Land of equality
Bull shit I say
Sometimes we go through tough times
To expose peoples true sides
Sometimes we go through calamity
To bring together two or three
to love and forgive
To inspire and change
And move past the here and now
There's no one keeping you down
he says
because the President is Black
You don't need a scholarship
for your melanin
because the President is Black
Affirmative action.
A good idea?
Perhaps.
Equality for all races...
Hate that word, races.
Tells of a division
Separate groups
Of black, and white.
"Why?" some ask
Not understanding
