This is just another that shows, we legally desegregated but didn’t not physically and in actions upheld it with communities and schools.
"Our children start to mourn themselves before their time."
As a child that come from poverty, the community and lack of opportunities makes it seems like there are only a few ways out. You either align with the community “norms” or fight thousands for a slim chance of getting out of the cycle of poverty. In these communities it’s easy to watch your dreams die when the person you thought would make it out fails.
"Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people - that 1s my idea of evil."
It’s the knowledge of a greater power putting this system in play but not knowing who, what or why this is allowed to happen. How as people we watch others suffer, how we are willing to allow it to happen. Especially when there are groups or individuals who gain from this exploration.
"There's a whole world out there if you know it's there, if you can see it. But they're in a cage. They can not see."
This cage is oppression and it’s invisible hold it has on the people experiencing it. We would do better if we know the unspoken rules. If we were wanted to successed but it’s not like that. What we know is what we see and grow up in and read about and often times our reflections of our community is never the inside out but the outside looking in and down at those who fall short of what America says are the rules to the American dream.
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