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2/25/2014

by Franchesca Guzman

My heart feels a profound ache for the over apparent need for those who do not understand us, for those who do not want to understand us, to drive us to an emotional break

Our youth’s youth is stolen young from those who make it important to make our brown children feel dumb

Racists have wishes are that our people of color act like and be those “hoes, niggers, spics and bitches”

So that they may sit on their thrones in their castles this government created and defend their desires for people of any and all colors to be eliminated

This battle is so enormous and so grand; it is not enough for just a few to stand

We are educated by a system that help create all of society’s “ism’s”, that same educational system is preparing our children less for jobs and more for prison

Systematic responses to bells, whistles and rigid schedules, a systematic instillation of the feeling that creativity is the devil

I see these beautiful brown children spontaneous and free – and know that what this society wants is to break their spirits for the sake of a degree

I've refused to let society win and make me numb, intelligence is believing that higher education can take away our freedom of thought, it can make us dumb