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Week 24: Racism -- Mackenzie

Submitted by ggevalt on April 6, 2007 - 14:16.

Racism
By Lisa Mackenzie
Browns River Middle School, Grade 6

Black,
white,
red,
or yellow,
what does it truly matter?

religons,
opinions,
beliefs,
They all affect,
and flatter.

but we are all just people,
of different shapes and size.
Some are
short and stout,
long and lean,
or
Anything that's in between.

No matter what
our ways or dreams,
nobody's free
until everyone's free.

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