Tainted Nation (2000-1)

This land you live on now,

First found by ice age cavemen,

Overdeveloped gorillas, didn’t know who, or why, or when,

Their only goal to hunt, and survive,

Evolution steps in

Tribes of humans start to thrive.

Alien men show up in the water with the sun.

Funny looking clothes,

Skin as pale as ghosts.

Bright colored hair, fire sticks, 2 x 4s set in a cross,

War breaks out, plague takes out, mass population loss.

False treaties signed, war kills still,

The body count at hundreds of mil,

White man assimilates; try to break the will,

Of the people who stand proud till they killed.

In Africa colonization begins with slave forts.

Europeans trade goods, for slaves at every sea port.

Middle passage is hell,

Made worse by the smell

And the “goods” lives end way too short.

Tortured in a small boat, like a dog in a cage,

“Make em sick and malnourished, to keep them from rage.”

No energy to fight back,

And the whip stings when cracked

But the land brings hope,

Until they realize “nope.”

It’s just another fort to be sold at.

Fat white man with a hat

Demands they speak English

For their new found master.

“Too slow!! Speak faster!!

Cuz that strong one looks like a laster,

For the tobacco fields”

But the master still wields,

The power,

In the form of a whip,

Like back in the ship,

It’s a never ending pain trip.

War with Mexico or Europe seemingly long past

With the first signs of industry popping up fast.

Civil war and the outcome, a good day in theory

But though things change a lot, they still don’t change.

Racism runs rampant through the hills through the streets,

Still a white power nation in control at the judge’s seat.

“You drank from a white fountain, used a white bathroom?”

KKK will get you wake up dead in a tomb.

19^th amendment in history pretty rare,

all of a sudden selfish men learned to share.

Things may have changed with women’s votes

but the great depression left people without fuel or coats.

Early 20^th century, world war shocks the ground,

Gunfire, bombs, and stomping boots are the sound,

You hear as you walk on the decaying streets

Of any European town.

The cities are in shambles, the camps

Reek of a horrible smell,

Though this time its decaying bodies, hurting people, burned to hell.

Gas warfare, and napalm,

Destroy everything that’s calm.

Radio reports of bombs hitting pearl harbor,

And machine guns start blazing.

Nuclear warfare; people burning while gazing

At the mushroom cloud in the sky

V-day a semi sane world dies.

Society suddenly thrusts into a place,

Cold war threatens, “Children cover your face!”

“Under the desks when you hear the alarm.

Don’t know much about it but a nuke will do you harm.”

Still today people can’t cross a hill, fence or street,

Why do they need to cross just to survive, just to eat?

We sit here watching TV in a leather seat,

Ask yourself this one while you eat that tasty dairy queen treat,

Has America been tainted by cheaters trying to cheat?

Minorities always struggling

On plantations they felt the heat.

Or modern day society

Feeling police dogs breath on their feet.

Always fighting back cuz they know they can’t be beat,

We never ever except defeat.

Society is made up of people so this is what I ask of it,

What’s up with this past and present pattern of bigotry us hypocrites?

Discrimination aint got no place in this people or from our governments

We cannot sit here doing nothing nor just talking all about this shit.

Change may take awhile but we can help at least a little bit.

******this was my epic history poem... i think i got some facts out of order... but i cant tell you how long i worked on this... and like much of the stuff i did sophmore and junior year it has that activist theme.*****