Great words there. Is someone in the White House listening? Will people ponder over this and get our faculty awakened? Else, the future gets gloomy and posterity?..........
On 20 Jan 2017 12:51 am, "'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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--Is It a New Day Today?Is it a new day todayin Trump's America?I was told the "people"have spoken, withDemocracy's permissionbut have we been heard?What happens to all the votesof those other people?What about all the acrimonies,bigotry and racial slurs?Is this a new day today,that stirs my simmering fearand the naive questionsfrom those children whoseinnocence time is aboutto rupture?What message should wesend back to King, Jr.?Well...bigotry won Georgiaand Mississippi is still sweltering!How do we interpretthe white stares that isolateme immediately I stepinto Walmart?Or the special treatmentAny time I'm at the airport?Is it a new day todayin God's own land,or even God himself is afraid?Have we finally crossed theboundary that separatesdream from nightmare?Is the cock crowing a new dayto correct the blasphemousdarkening of the White House?Is it a new day todayin the migrant's landwhere audacity dares?Does Liberty still hold the beaconto yonder lands of the hopefuland the scared?Divided we stand:racism's logic reigns!Fear is now inauguratedWhite has triumphedAll things non-white cowerBlack, White, BrownWe all are humanity!We will all earnestlystand together, heart to heartin all our broken placeswe will climb the walls andscale the bigoted breacheswe will breach nightmare'sramparts, and overthrow fear!We all are humanity!Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
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