colonialism 3.0
fool me twice shame on me
too black or too white
it’s [sadly] what this world
has been about for far too long
what have we become
incapable of coming close
to honoring the easiest of pledges
forgive me lord for I have sinned
for having believed
I possessed another [human being]
as a simple piece of property
october two thousand twenty-two
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