It’s a wonder to comprehend how we’ve allowed those that aren’t us to determine our lives
Like how old white men can pass legislation to determine if a woman can carry a life
Or how they can determine the matter of black lives
Or brown lives
Or red lives
Or how Americans can determine if middle easterners need freedom
Only to bomb them without reason
Or how we can so easily detain young Mexican children and no one batts an eye
Tell me what is the value of a human life?
If it isn’t born yet, or it isn’t white
There is limited value in human lives
So many of the people that look like me have lost their lives,
Refugees seeking asylum risk theirs trying to cross a man made border
Figuratively and physically
Here in this nation
The very nation where all men are created equal
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This nation where only white men are created equal
There is no equality for those who aren’t white
We saw it in the Declaration of Independence
We saw it in the emancipation proclamation
We saw it in manifest destiny
We saw it in Jim Crow
We saw it after Pearl Harbor
We saw it after 9/11
We saw it birth black lives matter
We saw it for pride
We saw it last night
When that black boy was shot by the cops
No gun in sight
Trying to reach home
Took a wrong turn
And it ended his life
We saw it in the very internment camps they put the Japanese in
Just this morning
We saw a Mexican baby separated from his mother
We saw it across the globe
Naw this isn’t just America
In Africa they’re dying in droves
From Sudan to South Africa
They rape our mother land
Everywhere you look
They’re killing our globe
Giving us false hope
Telling us that freedom is a privilege
Designated only to those who’s skin lacks melanin
What is this world