The Many Lives I’ve Lived
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In an ideal world, the media’s role in race relations would be non-existent or one of breaking down race barriers instead of reinforcing them as the Kerner Commission report suggests they do. I tend to turn away from or try to ignore media where I can clearly see a bias. I prefer to focus solely…
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I was two months into a relationship with an incredible woman. We both had a big weekend coming up. She worked for a nightclub in the Lower East Side of Manhattan while attending F.I.T. in Chelsea and was headed to the Sundance Film Festival where the club was throwing weekend afterparties for the movies being…
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Racism… a quality of lesser men/ hatreds veterans/I was under the impression when/My parents were kids this country had already got its civil rights lesson in/But, I guess I need to guess again/It seems the negative rhetoric the rights elected in, has effected men/White pride beats in the chest of men/Preparing for a fight near the…
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I have traveled to 47 states in America. I have taken dozens of road trips and zigzagged this country 10 times. I have stayed in big cities, small towns, rural communities and all along my travels, I have seen blatant, in your face, racism. I have seen segregation and oppression in middle America. I have…
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Emotions flow like ocean waterscalmness comes before the storm is brought upsmooth sailing turnsand my eagerness to stay afloat earns me a day of hopeas the waves sway my boatthe skies gray from the clouded way i spoketrying to keep my bad thoughts at baybecause the day i open my throat when the rain poursis…
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I live in an era of heightened securitywhere people still have to fight for human rights ferventlyfor anyone to have heard them speak.There’s a disease within the government, their hearing is lessened,an ear infection steering them clear from the people they’re not hearing, stressing.We live in terms of tears yet we cheer elections.We hope for…
The Many Lives I’ve Lived 