Black vs White.. (The Racial War)

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RevengeIsMine
Senior Member

since 2006-07-08

Posts 820
Australia

0 posted 2008-12-05 03:38 AM

Hey Guys, i posted this in teen a while ago and yea it probably sucks but oh well!
Well for 17 years my family have been sponsoring a child from an underpriviladged country. Her name is Shahan and she is now 18 y.o's of age. This year she asked my family to stop sending her money as she was set to marry. Anyway long story short my mother and father have decided not to sponsor another child. So i have taken it upon myself to sponsor a little boy in Ethiopia by the name of Oscar. I wrote him a letter a while back when i first made my decision and today i got his response. He told me of his life and how he lives in a village with alot of other homeless children. He is fortunate enough to read and write but his brothers and sisters haven't had the chance to learn. His letter has touched me deeply. Oscar told me that his grandmother told him as a child that it was a sin to associate with white people and until i began sponsoring him he believed white people did not care for the black race. I think its really sad that we are potrayed this way to children. Weather we be black or white don't we all deserve the same amount of love and respect. Or do we simply get judged by our colour to hide the truth. Either way someday its got to stop.!!

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Black Vs White (The Racial War)

Forgive me god for I have sinned
One thousand times since these lights dimmed
A fractured cheek and a broken bone
An innocent child who has no home

Tattered torn, frayed at the edge
A mother gave birth under that hedge
Children crying they’re in pain
Broken bodies washed away with rain

Salty tears now that she’s got aids
She stays strong, but her smile fades
A child bleeding, he’s been shot
This deadly war has got to stop

A shattered innocent that we ignore
As we walk right by they suffer more
But in the corner all alone
Lies a little boy who’s found his home

In the saviour of a burnout fridge
This little boy found his place to live
His eyes light up when you walk his way
But he is black so you can’t stay

So what’s the point of this task
And how have I sinned you may ask
The truth is that it’s your fault too
All these innocents rely on you

Now it’s time to wake up and see
That world doesn’t revolve around you and me
People bleed and people die
Innocents hurt and Innocents cry

Save yourself from the human race
Build a bridge and find some space
It doesn’t take a millionaire to sponsor a child
To save them from their destiny of becoming wild

Maybe they’ll have aids or scars that cut too deep
Maybe they’ll be black with no memories to keep

Forgive me god for I have sinned
One million times since these lights dimmed
Fractured memories have held me fast
From a painful lie that will be my last

A black woman leaves her eldest son
It seems the aids have finally won
With broken pride she falls to the ground
Her body trembling but she makes no sound

His name is Oscar and he’s brother’s three
And this little boy wants to be like me
He’s only ten but we’ve given him a life
The chance of one day having a wife

So with battle scars he can call his own
This little boy walks right on home

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

1 posted 2008-12-05 05:28 PM

you have presented your cause ably and well...I still find it difficult to believe that 'man's inhumanity to man' is still alive and doing well here on planet earth...thank you very much for your part and your willingness to share in what (to some) may be an unpopular subject

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-12-05 05:52 PM

Yo dear RevengeIsMine,

There you go Hon. Say hello to your buddy Oscar for me.

Love Bobby

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

3 posted 2008-12-09 12:35 PM

Sucks.....even if I riffle through all the, um, colloquial usages for that word that a geezer picks up along the way, I can't find a single one that applies to this poem....

In fact, it's rather stunning, if you're young enough to have been posting in Teen.

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latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

4 posted 2008-12-09 02:35 AM

Aussie Chick, You are really good at what youo do. Keep up and stick with it."late"

Balladeer

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 2008-12-09 08:37 AM

You have a good heart, miss

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

6 posted 2008-12-09 08:49 AM

and then you have the Ethiopian govt that is black and fairly wealthy and won't even assist the thousands in their own country that are dying...is greed not even more of a cancer then the advertised racial history..was it not the sire of same?

I enjoyed the poem and did in fact sponsor a couple of children for a few years..then I went to an orphanage outside of Dallas and saw hundreds of kids in my own country that have been discarded by the same families that send their dollars across the pond.

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