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This is America

Michelle Fulkerson

This is America,
the land of the free,
the home of the brave.
This is America,
the land where on average our nation has one new
school shooting every week.

This is America,
where children in our own backyards starve
hungry for food and thirsting for knowledge.

This is America,
where white people say the N word
like they drive their cars:
wreckless, loud and deliberate
where one in five women will be raped in her lifetime
where I am one of these women.

This is America,
where the political tension can be cut with a knife.
This is America,
the home of the greedy and the land of the homeless
with more than
554,000 homeless people,
193,000 of those people
living in tents or on park benches.

This is America,
where homophobia and racism run rampant.
Captured like prey in the mouth of a diseased animal
we live in a society controlled by timetables and paychecks
where increasing numbers of babies are born
filled with cocaine instead of love
where foster care traffics out young girls,
with the helping hand of a corrupt cop.

The more we deny these realities
the higher the numbers climb.
This is OUR America
unedited and uncut.

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