The angry soup of racism

bored

ain't it a shame
when hate lynches
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little Negro girls
in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama

yeah
bus that to your segregated thoughts
as I 'interracially' walk you
through Little Rock, Arkansas
with Daisy Bates & nine Black Children
to march along side the National Guard
on their way to a lily white school
as the message of this
un-segregates & un-tangles
the history of hate
attackin’ Negroes in 1957
whose only desire was to be educated
and schooled too

racism & hate
doesn’t try to guide
the white citizen council back
to their good senses
‘cause racism
don’t care ‘bout nobody
being Jew or Colored
when it needs to
fire-bomb
Negro churches with Negroes in them
or feels the need to hang someone
from a tree out of existence
racism even devours… its own kkklan
as the innocent
pay the ultimate price

racism doesn’t care
if your church is the 16th Street Baptist
and 14 yr. old Addie Mae Collins
is one of the four black Alabama children
killed in attendance
racism ain’t concerned about
you being Caucasian either
or your last name being
Jewish
White
Black
Brown
Till
Schwerner
Evers
Liuzzo
Mandela
Martin or Rodney King
and so many other names
that we’ll never know of
that racism wounded or buried six feet
under hate

racism doesn’t care about
what kinda NAACP dream
you’re having
or concerned about your last name
being 'Parks' in 1955
when it attempts to guide you back
to the 'Colored' section of the bus
where you know your
civil-rights will be denied
every time you allow
' segregation & discrimination'
to collect its fare

racism and its hateful followers
have no regard at all
for one’s race/religion
or sexual persuasion

especially when racism peers
into its discriminating mirror
century after century
time after time
day after day
and tells itself in 2006
'it’s better than you'
because you’re 'cultured' different
from them'

yeah
racism stirs an 'ugly pot' of soup
that no one should ever have to taste.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Racism is still alive and well. The good people with logic and vision must stop the hate and violence before it become stronger. Disappointment make the world blame someone for the problems. Could be the Arab's or the Mexican's blame for the lack of jobs. Funny part the Mexicans were here first people here 5000 years in the America's. Arab's have done great things. Create million of jobs. We must be careful. The Government like to create ghosts. Here in the USA. Last 10 terrorist attacks. 8 were done by white America. School attacks, private armies and KKK. Churches were burn down in the last 10 year because racism. Laws are in effect to protect all people. I believe we (All people) can't allow any form of racism to be allowed to happen. A very strong poem. Many have die for woman and men to be free to chose their way of life.
Coyote

[Samuel Dickens]

I couldn't agree with you more. Racism is one of the ugliest traits that mankind can have.

[Frank F. Atanacio]

a fantastic dramatic read here in your poetry, very well crafted and very well written, I enjoyed the flowing motions of your words, and the message it breeds, very good piece here thank you for sharing Frank :)

[Jocelin]

I love this alot it's so true in may ways :)

[.]

. wow ... you speak my mind ... and a million times more powerfully than i ever could ... racism exists in this cafe too ... people are insensitive to cultural differences ... to differences in cultural definitions and renditions of love ... it's like the entire civilization i belong to ... needs to be trashed ... for a more ... saleable definition ... even of love ... and my adherence to my culture ... ah, well ... it's not even a fundamental right ... thank you for this ... i'm glad someone understands ...

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[Jennifer]

nice write :)

[Harley Ann]

this is really deep. very true. like...putting the evil we know as racism into a tangible form, really showing the world how its devouring us whole
now to get the rest of the world to open their eyes...
oh, what am i saying, im racist, too
against the human race! ;P
so lets all put ourselves in concentration camps, maybe learn a thing or two from each other
Great write, very inspring :)