Why stop there?
By: Denise Campbell
Date: July 17, 2002
Why stop there?
You have already stolen our history
Stole our pride and dignity
And replaced it with confusion and longing
You have stolen our language
Raped our mothers and sisters
And sold our fathers
But that was not enough
Was it?
It wasn’t enough to drag us here in chains and build this country on our backs
It wasn’t enough to take away our right to vote
Our integrity
You leave our men castrated
And our women hating the very things that makes them beautiful
Our brothers lusting after women with a straight nose
Thin lips
Long hair
An a little cream in their blood
And shunning the sisters who wear their crowning glory in naps
You have our girls confused
Filled with self hatred and disillusion that our oppressor is better than them
Even our elders
Grown ups
Buying into the conspiracy
Telling a child they are pretty if they “got that good hair”
Why stop there?
You already created mass genocide
Robbed our countries of their natural resources and sold us empty promises of things never to come
You’ve already blinded us with greed and set us up to kill each other by selling guns in our communities to our children ensuring they may not live pass their teens
You’ve planted drugs
Put caner in our pockets with cigarettes and second hand smoke on our babies tongue
Before they have stopped suckling
You are a killer
A murderer
A liar
A thief
A back stabber
Why stop there?
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