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by Baybie Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Community · #931339
Things I've sat around and thought about.
I watched as you burned my father's father And cried when you raped my mother's mother.

You called my brother a "nigger" but you and your claim not to remember.

What about my sister? Oh, you up and forgot about her! She washed your clothes, took care of your babied and not once did she ask "How much will you pay me?"

You ever stop and think that maybe all my family truely wanted was intergrity and respect?

Instead you took our language. Stole our customs and held us down. Most of all how dare you tell us we had little or no history?!

Remember this if nothing else...

We shaped your country and gave you our art and our music. We are the great Kings and Queens of lands you no longer seek out.
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