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Apr 2015
-                                       It's simple, Life Isn't fair. You grow
                                        Believing
              ­                          It Is
                                        Until the world Releases
                                         It's
                                         Wrath.
                                         Equality
                                         Doesn't
                                           Come                                                     
                ­                           Easily

                                               It most definitely won't
                                                            come­
                                                           without
                                                         ­  a Fight.
                                                          ­ Every
                                                            Figh­t
                                                          Comes
­                                                           With
                                         a consequence. It may seem hard
                                                    
                                                             However                
                                         ­             It's worth It
                                               Barack Obama
                                         Ridiculed                              
                                    So I can
                                   become a
                                     president  
                                         Rosa Parks          Imprisoned
                                       ­        So I can                    sit  
                                    ­               wherever               I                      
                                         ­                       choose

                                  ­       Martin              Luther
                                      ­    King              Assassinated
                                        So I can          befriend
                                        anyone I          choose
                                         Malcolm   X   Murdered          
                                         So I can    be   accepted
                                      Freedom           ­  Riders
                                      Arrested So        I can eat
                                       wherever           I choose
                                          Black             Panthers        
                                         Abused            So I can be      
                                          treated       ­         fairly


                                These fighters died, On the front line, On the battle field
                                                         So I wouldn't have
                                                      To. And yet, Where am I
                                                      Fighting,­ On the front line
                                                            Of the battle field
                                                           So what ever young  
                                                      asp­iring African American
                                                           won't be deprived
                                                            of their education
                                                       ­       Of their History
                                                          Of their right to vote;
                                                           ­  For standing up
                                                         For what they believe In
                                                                ­ It's simple
                                                          ­      Life Isn't fair
                                                               However you
                                                                ­ don't know
                                                                ­  Until life
                                                                ­ unleashes It's
                                                            ­         wrath
                                                           ­        On You
No matter what you believe In, No matter how hard It may seem, If It requires a fight, Fight It.
Jasmine Roper
Written by
Jasmine Roper  Virginia
(Virginia)   
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   Miranda Renea and Leahsa Blake
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