<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Americans, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Segregation, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Tissues in the Restrooms</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Napkins</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Kleenexes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Were All, Segregated</em></p>
<p>then&#8230;<img src="https://lifetheobstaclecourse.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/61181-segregatedbus1956.jpg" alt="See the source image" />photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>You Couldn’t, Mix &amp; Match to Use Them</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Like the South During the Civil War</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’d Felt Bashful, Using a Roll of Toilet Paper to</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Wipe My Nose Off</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>So, I’d, Shut the Door to My Own Room</em></p>
<p>and now&#8230;<img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-57351de9/turbine/hc-ed-police-profiling-stil-problem-in-ct-20160512" alt="See the source image" />except that it&#8217;s, no longer called &#8220;racism&#8221;, it&#8217;s called, &#8220;Racial profiling&#8221;&#8230;comic from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">And so, this, is how someone turns cold, a blind eye, to what’s currently going on, and because, there’s NOTHING that any of us can do about it, after all, discrimination, stereotypes, are the problem of this, greater world, and we’re, just small people here, so, how can what we do, make a difference, right?  So, it would be, EASIER, to just, turn that eye B-L-I-N-D, to pretend that we don’t see anything!</p>
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