Color Blind (Part One)

This is one of the first poems I ever wrote, I think I was around twelve. Being that today is a day that we honor the memory of a man who fought for equality; for our country to be one that everyone could come together in....I thought it was a fitting day to post this poem.

Color Blind
(Part One)

Many people see colors
Many see the outside
Many can't look deeper
And this you can't deny

I don't know why they do it
I can't see what they see
I wish they could look deeper
Deeper into me

Many people are different
And that's how it has always been
But that doesn't matter
If all you see is skin

I know you can't get people to change the way they feel
I know because I've tried
I just wish that one day
Everyone can be color blind

Celebrate The Dream

Martin Luther King Jr Day is an important Holiday for me. It is to celebrate not only the memory of a man who put his life on the line to fight for equality and unity; but also to recognize what he was fighting for. I live in a place where it is very common for racism to happen daily. And not just racism-Oklahoma has so much discrimination, it's ridiculous.

My mom grew up in a time that racism was still happening-a lot. She told me a story once about a boy she liked and gave her number to. He called the house one day, and my grandpa found out he was not a white boy and my mom got in trouble-BAD. He was like that, always. I never knew though-he never showed that side of himself to me.