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Cedric McClester
Poems
Feb 2016
PEOPLE FEAR WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW
By: Cedric McClester
Paranoia tends to grow
Cuz people fear what
They don’t know
Still they refuse to learn
And so
We still have quite
A ways to go
Conveniently we forget
Our ugly history
And yet
We fail to feel
A sense of debt
And rarely show
Any regret
I remember
Lynchings still
And truthfully
I always will
Think about
Poor Emmitt Till
By now I think
You know the drill
America the beautiful
Hasn’t always been
Benevolent when it comes
To men of colored skin
But this is now
And that was then
So I guess
We just pretend
Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2016, All rights reserved.
Written by
Cedric McClester
New York, New York
(New York, New York)
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