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Hawa Diawara and Christiana Aining
Changes
Use to visit the trash
use to bond with the trash
use to be the trash
now I am the trash
Used to be called Negroes
No more, we would be called black
Those were our civil rights
And since we started to fight back
They finna throw us in the sack
Like bruh, learn the facts before you act
Don’t shoot me just cause I’m black
Don’t be blinded by the color of our skin
Thou does not define our sin nor background
Black power defines the black community
And how strong we are
The Unity we’ve had
The legends we've created
The history we've made
But there are people out there
making mockery of it, like it’s a joke
They’re tryna bury our dignity to the grave
Making us feel lower
Now we wonder
“What did our skin do to deserve this?”
“We were just created like this”
“We didn’t choose this”
“But we still love this”
If this skin were to disappear
We would miss it
No matter what even if we:
Have to visit the trash
Bond with the trash
Even be the new trash
All we asked for was freedom
Now we asking for equality
And we not just talking about this generation
Remember the segregation?
Yes it’s in the past
But the past is the burden of our future
We are slaves to our own skin
And no matter what
We will be judged by our skin
and no matter what we will be
Demons before Humans
Losers before Winners
Sinners before Leaders
But you know what
We will never be quitters
Even if we have to
Visit the trash
Bond with the trash
We are the new trash anyways
We will reminisce on this brown ash
We live in a world where black and white
Is defined as right and wrong
In a world where we stereotype
Everyone of the same skin color
And religious as being the same
I’m Muslim so I’m a terrorist
I’m Black so my life doesn’t matter
I’m white so I am racist
We are all united, but misguided and shortsighted
But like Martin Luther King said
“ He who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s the new definition of greatness; Everybody can be great,because everybody can serve, you don't need to know, or go anywhere to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, soul, generated by love to be that servant.”
And like W.E.B Du Bois said
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.”
Today we make changes!
So let all skin rise to the same level and promise to never quarrel.
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