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May 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read

My epidermis
does not
make me
better

Than the brown-faced boy from Georgia
who won’t be taught about racism in school
but will still learn it there.

Or the man face down on concrete
pleading for air
gasping
dying
beneath a knee
of oppression.

1/3 #Poetry #Poems

Or the young girl
with box braids
staring out the school bus window
at confederate flags
and soccer-mom vans with
all-lives-matter bumper stickers.

Or the mother of mothers
And the motherless
with an angel’s smile
murdered
on a Saturday grocery run.

2/3 #Poetry #Poems

My epidermis
does not
make
me
better
or more important
or more American
or more worthy of life.

My epidermis
is not a burden
I must carry.

My epidermis
is privilege
in this sad, torn, and
terrible world.

3/3 #Poetry #POEMS

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