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Not That Different
January 30, 2019
We Be Proud,
they take it away,
the culture that gives us purpose.
We try to understand
from whence we came,
the unknown places
across unnecessary borders
into others lands.
They claim neutrality,
yet ignore the reality:
the pleas for help,
the children crying,
the dreams dying.
Only now do some understand,
that we are not that different,
you and me,
you just have all that privilege
you can not even see.
Never will power proclaim,
we were mistaken-we are sorry-how can we make amends,
the remediation never comes.
We are fragmented.
Just because some
are perceived as different.
© Maya Angelou
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