Too Much Emphasis On This Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Too much emphasis has been placed,
On Blackness and this effect...
It has to have left,
The rightness of Whites...
Entitled to fly higher kites.
To leave the rich to shut their doors,
Upon the faces of those poor.
Too much emphasis on this,
Has permitted discrimination to exist.
With one race to be abused by another.
As if the importance of it,
Will keep others confined...
Accepting in their minds limitations.

Too much emphasis on this,
Encourages division and tensions to remain.
As humanity with it defined,
Continues to slip into a darkened abyss.
Too much emphasis on race,
And the difference this makes...
Has erased a greatness to believe it achieved,
Stripped apart by conflicts assisted...
By those with sickened mentalities,
Unified by beliefs...
Their lives to live to do as they choose,
Can be done to do it independently.
Although anyone with their eyes open wide,
Can not deny every aspect of their lives to live...
Is more interdependent,
Than their protesting against it...
Will allow them to admit.

'I don't need them.'
~And we don't need you.~
'But...
Why are you taking 'that' away?
It has always been here.
We demand for it to stay.'
~It's been here so long,
To have you think of it that way.
But check the facts.
Before you demand what is ours,
To believe you can take it back.~
'Uh...
Maybe we have placed,
Too much emphasis on this.'
~No!
'WE' didn't.
You did.~