Saturday 25 October 2008

We Are All Members Of The One Human Race, Are We Not? - A free-verse poem by Kofi Thompson

Apparently
She said
She
Was
Attacked
By a six-foot plus
Black male
Poor
Young
Female
Caucasian
Slightly
Mixed-up
Mentally
Apparently
She said
She had
Been
Attacked
By an Obama
Supporter
Allegedly
A tall
Six-foot plus
Black man
Poor
Young Caucasian
Female
McCain supporter
Apparently
Out to cause
White mischief
Heavens
Thank God
They
Had no tall
Black man
To fasten on
Who
Just happened
To be out and about
In the vicinity
By accident
By sheer coincidence
Innocently
Oh God
How many
Innocent
Black males
Over the years
Have
Been so framed
And
Judicially-murdered
Unjustly
Only
Because
Some mentally deranged
Troubled soul
Who hated
For no reason
At all
Simply decided
To fasten
On some
Innocent
Black male
Unjustly
Condemning
An innocent man
For no
Good reason
No just cause
Oh when
Will such
Naked hatred
By troubled
Caucasian souls
Fastening
On innocent
Black people
For stereotypical
Reasons
Finally end?
How
Would they
Like it
If the roles
Were reversed
And they
Were
At the
Receiving end
Of some
Deranged
Black person's
Racist hallucinations
And were
Consequently
Condemned
To die
Because
That deranged
Black person
Made up
An untrue story
That had
No basis
In reality?
Let us
Stop
Race hatred
For once
Forever
For
We are all
Members
Of the one
Human race
Are we not?

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