We Are Not Equals

A poem

To be a white male

Is to be a non fail

In a place that privileges me

And guarantees certainty.

I walk without stop

From my local cop

Who arrests the black man

For doing what he can

To succeed in a place

That was made for whites to ace.

My life is frictionless

Because I’m not worthless

I was born as the default

While blacks are at fault

For not doing what they can

To fit in the society we ran

And we tell them it’s their fault

Since self reliance we assault

On the American brain

That is to keep us sane

But how is it right

To say as a white

That we’re all equal

When today we’re in a sequel

Of a Civil Rights Era

When whites bear a

Gun to their vest

While blacks are doing their best.

To say we are equal

Is a statement that’s fecal

As the black lives who died

Are left to the side

Of injustice and crime

When the crime of our time

Is done by a man with a badge

Who doesn’t give a rat’s ass.