What's the problem?
Does it bother you that I'm different?
That my hereditary traits aren't exactly identical?
Or that my pigment isn't the same as yours?

So many questions,
Yet so few answers,
For you can't provide a righteous response,
You'd much rather stay blind to your ignorance

Than dignify me with a answer,
But it's fine I'll speak my piece,
In hopes that I bring light to your darkness,
Your convoluted thoughts!

That poison the very soul you carry,
You see we all have ancestors,
Some with more significance than others,
But all created alike

The same blood pumping in their veins,
Yet on different sides of the spectrum,
For some were slaves, masters, or prisoners,
And every one of them fought for our freedom

Yet everyday you breathe,
You choose to spit in the face,
Of the legacy they left behind,
Surely you aren't blind

It's obvious you can see,
But what blocks your feeble mind,
From expanding and understanding,
That we're just alike

Just different colors of skin,
I don't deserve to be singled out,
As if I'm a disease,
Everytime I'm in your presence

When will you open your eyes?
Swallow that sense of pride and change,
I'm not the enemy,
And if I asked for a reason why

Could you provide one?
Why do you dislike my color?
Can you answer that question?
Do you even have a clue?

Or is it because you have polluted strains of DNA,
Telling you to hate any that don't look like you,
I need answers,
But for now I'll leave you with this

I'm proud to be who I am,
I'm different and I have a will to fight,
To be accepted and respected,
So before I unleash this wrath upon you with raw emotions

Built over so many years,
I decided to show you that real people,
Use words to solve a problem,
Before being irrational to the next.

I'm tired of the division and separation of cultures and people. I call for us all to come together and figure out what's the issue.