Believe Against Believe

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BELIEVE AGAINST BELIEVE
They wrote us off,
Treated us with so much hate,
Sent us to prisons instead of college.
The Judiciary hated us and gave us a panda’s bite.
We grew up in this white and black nation
That refuse to be gray,
White against black like zebra.
The stripes were clear,
Discrimination could be seen
Differences, bitterness and hatred.
Blacks, sons of ex-slaves
Sent to prisons instead of college,
Cast to the bench,
Painted inferior.
But Martin believed;
These black sons will rise from the bench
To substitute those on high tables.
Believing against the believe
That black was less
Martin saw black as the best.
C. Timothy



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