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1000 black lives a day are aborted - did they matter?
Poetry only.
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FreshwaterFish in Poetry & Free Verse

Where To Start

It is said that the chicken came before the egg

But for this topic I don't know where to start

So I'll start here instead

What do we teach our children

At home and at school

Is there any substance in their educational learning

Or are we too busy trying to make them fit in and be cool

Are our homes broken?

Do we live behind white picket fence?

Or are we busy playing happy family

Leaving the children ignorant and dense

In this social world where everything looks glamorous and free

These are the tricks of the media and the TV

Who doesn't want to be a Cardi B or a Nicki Minaj

But the road to their success story is like a mirage

No one digs deep in these back stories, that's too much trouble

Get rich quick or die trying like 50 Cents that's the best hustle

We know the world we live in

There is a lot of racism and nepotism

There is a saying that Black don't crack

Well let me answer that

Black does crack when their communities don't work together

Black does crack when there are not enough resources for one other

Black does crack when the education system is whack

Same dusty old equipments using in the classrooms from 1900's way way back

Black does crack when one parent is in the home

What are they going to teach their child when they are still a child of their own

Black does crack when the system is none existing

It's on paper but there is no implementing

Black does crack when they are the minority but gets blamed as the majority

Black does crack when nothing is explained, but they are the first to get blamed

So the question was; 1000 black lives a day are aborted - did they matter?

When Black cracks it usually runs red

Red blood, leading to another one dead

1000 black lives a day are aborted,

This was a crack that took way too long to be reported

Did they matter?

Yes it did

No one wants to be scraped on the inside to kill a kid.

So where to start?

I really don't know

The system

Uncle Sam

The parents

School

Society

At Home?