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Why do you think that the skin you are in

makes you better than everyone else?

You come out in public, surrounded by all hues,

and talk crap about people with skin different than yours.

It’s obvious, after listening to you,

that your skin did not make you smarter!

You sit and offend every person around

with your foul mouth and hate filled trash talk.

Children were sitting right in front of you,

but that didn’t stop the mess spewing from you.

Even they, with skin the same color as yours,

were upset and angered by your words.

To stupid to even notice or care,

you still kept talking on into the night.

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Why were you at a sporting event where the players,

those graceful athletes, most had skin the color you hate?

Why come to a place to only jeer, not cheer,

and anger the true fans that surrounded you?

Three ignorant, scared, little bigots;

all trash talking, hate spewing fools.

I wondered as we fans left that night,

people of every color together;

“How do you live in the world of today?”

So many beautiful people of every culture and color

make our world a delightful place for every sense: 

taste, sight, smell, touch and sound.

Do you hide away and avoid everyone who isn’t just like you? 

Eat only white bread, white rice, drink white milk?

Sounds crazy, I know, but so does your hate,

you poor wretched, ignorant souls.

Perhaps, someday, a miracle will happen

and your eyes and heart will open.

You will be able to see that underneath our skins

we are all humans, with the same hopes and dreams as yours.

But until that day, my wish is that I don’t ever

have to listen to anymore of your foolish, hate filled words.

Stay away in your little hate filled world. 

Please don’t come and contaminate ours.