Race in America: A Medley of Poems

The America that was

America was a place of wonderment and amazement,
Prosperity could be felt oozing out of the crevices
of Corporate America,
Neighborhoods seemed happy and content with
homeownership and their lives,

People were able to live in peace,
without suspicious eyes,

Today, our environments feel dismal and barren,
Folks refrain from caring because of the violence
and scamming,

Privacy has become abnormal and fleeting,

Land Barrons feel as if they are being taken for a
ride, while the less honorable try to destroy their
pride by deceptively relieving them of their properties,
In the America that was, citizens were not on
pins and needles all the time,

Different races created genuine interest and concern,
In the new millenium foreigners are scorned,
and seen as inconveniences,

America no longer seeks to be a melting pot,
The immigrants are being forced into obliteration and exile, most of the time, Non-Americans incite aggravation, sometimes causing tempers to boil.......

Non-Descript

The hard to define have a difficult task at hand,
because they are treated as if they were Drug
Cartels concealing contraband,
Everywhere they patronize, instigates
inquiring minds, simply because their
skin has undefined hues, and their hair
and eyes could make them belong to
any group,

Their ambiguity spells trouble,
causing the natives to assume they want to
complete a coup,

So, everyone sounds off the sirens
and alert signals,

On any given day the Non-Descript
could be surrounded by militant troops,
for suspicion of looking different or too
spooky.

Cape Fear

The richest city in America
has turned into Cape Fear,
plagued by road blocks,
harrassment and overzealous
figures of authority,
misusing their power to create
anarchy, some may say it is
the safest place to raise blended
families, but no one tells the horror
stories of bigotry, where kindness
is used as a weapon to shove
unliked ethnicities out the door,
where they brainwash kids into
thinking less of themselves instead
of more, all the good work the Civil
Rights Movement accomplished
is slowly dwindling away,
Cape Fear becomes less accountable
every day, while vital souls are treated
with disrespect and callous behavior,
There is no governance and the people
are left at each others' mercy.

The Book of Profiles

In the book of profiles, all foreigners are described through the eyes

of Profilers,

Foreigners are expected to act in the cookie cutter images that are defined,

There is no gray area for free will or socio-economic upbringing,

They must follow the labels that the Goverment has imposed,

Or else they will experience aggravation and woes........

Alright

Your race is alright if your non-threatening
and conform to other's expectations of you,
You are alright if you are spewing with generosity
and effervescing with your personal details,
Introversion and reserved behavior are viewed as oddities
in the human psyche,
You are alright, if you remain silent and pretend all is
fine and dandy.

BABYLON

They look to Babylon for every altercation
under the sun, especially when dealing with
minorities, they all chant, "Call the Police",
as if they believe every minority has deception
up their sleeves,

The Elitists think foreigners can be conditioned
like Pavlov's dogs, remaining passive when
treated unfairly and to cower them further,
They call for Babylon as if they were murderous
fiends,

The whole concept of giving the benefit of the doubt
has fell apart at the seams.

Categories

Causcasian is superior to all other races,
Blacks are tolerated as long as they don't pose
a threat,

Asians are acceptable if they are bright and live
up to their heritage of exotica,
Religions other than Christianity are misunderstood
and criticized,

Personality types that are strong and unshakeable
are recognized as people with attitudes, who have to be
quelled or taken down a notch with abusive and crude
behavior,

The Naysayers want to create a colony of humans who
think like robots, and are easily managed,

They want to create a society of Stepford Folks,
who smile all the time, as if life were a big joke.

Rebirth of The Old South

Minorities have fought valiantly
to get where they are today,

Yet, they are regressing in so many
ways,

Caste Systems are being implemented
to hold progress back,

If they don't fit in, they are excuded from
going to the next level,

Lawyers, Doctors and Indian Chiefs
are expected to utilize Dirt Devils,

The Old South is being reborn with tales
of segregation and scorn,

Foreigners used to be viewed as exotic and interesting,

The new America wants to discount foreigners' lives,

by treating them as third class citizens only good enough,

to clean White Peoples' tiles.

Unity

Unity will never happen,
as long as race becomes the
focal point of citizens' thoughts,
Instead of seeing viable human
beings, they see color and labels
and begin to judge,

Unity gets lost when surrounded
by contempt and hate,
Whatever happened to diversity
and tolerance?

Are they just catchy words that
people use to create trust, so they
can implement chicanery?

Or are they just diversions
to stop watch groups from being vigilant?

Unity seems eons away when
celebrity, fame and power
gets treated offensively,

Our world can never move forward
until color becomes a non-issue,

All minorities want is to live their
lives freely without being, aggressively
pursued.

When God Comes

When God arrives again,
He won't care about our color,
or who we call our "friends",
He made us in his likeness
and being,

Therefore, hatred and bigotry will
have no place in his Kingdom,
He cannot be bribed, persuaded
or convinced, that racism is not
a horrible sin,

All the hateful acts that were swept
under the carpet will rise to the surface,
instigating JUSTICE.