America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHCCIC AJKLICC CCLMN COPIQ CGRCSLTIt is time to lift up the carpet of deception and expose the dirt that you swept under it | A |
We do not care whether you can stand the smell of your own excrement or not | B |
Your opportunistic forefathers ran away from Great Britain and came to the west as wanders | C |
They settled in other people s lands and they reaped what they did not cultivate | D |
The Americans claimed that they discovered a land but the land had already been inhabited by people | E |
So the country that you proudly call your home does not belong to you it is a stolen land | F |
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Your dishonest teachers and leaders have not told you the whole truth about your history | G |
If the deceivers could find a way to erase their ugly past they would gladly do that | H |
Your great grandfathers and your forefathers were thieves murderers and plunderers | C |
They barbarically murdered the native Apaches and others and stole their lands | C |
Many Indians are now living in their own country on lands that you call reservation | I |
And you treat them as if they were alien residents in the country when you are the intruders | C |
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Now let us go back under the decorative carpet and expose more dirt even if you will be ashamed of it | A |
The evil minded Americans also went to Africa captured Africans and enslaved them | J |
They subjected black people to the most inhumane treatment that mankind had ever known | K |
Negroes were stripped of their dignity under the loathsome apartheid system in America | L |
Your cruel forefathers abused and murdered our forefathers and raped black women | I |
You are the wayward offspring of wicked slavers kidnappers oppressors liars and rapists | C |
And some of you have the audacity to say that the Negroes of today were not victims | C |
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The fact that your forefathers did these evil things to our forefathers they also offended us | C |
We are suffering because they robbed our forefathers and enslaved them for four hundred years | C |
You are now benefiting from the wealth that your forefathers had stolen from Africa | L |
You and your children are also benefiting from a four hundred year economic head start | M |
Our children and we have been living in squalid conditions because of what your forefathers did | N |
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Wait generation of demons that is not all there is more dirt under the carpet to expose | C |
Your racist grandfathers murdered Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X for speaking the truth | O |
They also murdered their president John F Kennedy and imprisoned the wrong man | P |
The American soldiers whom you regard as heroes brutally raped and murdered Vietnamese women | I |
And they massacred innocent Vietnamese civilians including children during the war in Vietnam | Q |
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Even though the hypocritical Americans speak against the other countries with nuclear weapons | C |
America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons against another country | G |
They unconventionally dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of World War II | R |
Last but not least your greedy and vicious forefathers also stole some Mexican territories | C |
You call America The Big Apple but America is no apple it is a little pepper called scotch bonnet | S |
We should look under the large attractive carpet again and expose more dirt on America | L |
But if you want to know more about your past ask your teachers and leaders or do your own research | T |
Marlon Pitter
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