The Stop

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What happens when the oppressed stop playing by the rules

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…saw him in passing. Just another car, another citizen driving, unremarkable in all aspects except one. He hit the wailer and took off down the road after him. His was heart beating fast and his adrenaline was coursing through his blood, amping his attitude and getting him ready to meet the enemy. He called it in over the radio keeping the specifics to a minimum as there was no real reason to approach as of yet. Thankfully he was given the latitude to stop and detain anyone he deemed…

By Isa Pulley

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Racism Powerplay

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Racism is bred by leaders who seek followers bringing division and confusion amongst the nations.

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…of peace require no leaders,

harmony and love make them all achievers,

side by side they live and work,

overflowing with happiness as an added perk.

There's always the few that crave for power,

for that they need the other to cower,

they turn the neighbours against each other,

introducing racism as the perfect cover.

When tribes and nations live in fear and confusion,

chaos and hatred becomes a daily infusion,

politics is a very dirty game,

causing the nations much sorrow and…

By Zararia Yul

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Where Racism Lives

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…as nations rise against nations

Influenced by greed and corruption

Passed on from generation to generation

Like a genetic disorder or malfunction

Embedded deeper than the bones and marrow

A disease that causes great grief and sorrow

Hate, anger, bitterness against another culture

Fed to our children like breast milk as a mother’s nurture

The ugly head of racism has no shame

It takes up residence in all, as it seeks fame

Young, old, rich and poor

It’s knocking on your door

“Human! Human! Let me in!

I am mighty and powerful, and I’m not a sin!”

Entry is allowed…

By KellyAnn Rodriguez-Singh

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Wimpy Paddington

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…how my friends and I insulted each other. John had started it and we followed whatever John did without thinking much about it. He wrote U2 on his schoolbag and within a week we’d all done the same. John had got the Arab thing from his dad who’d been in prison. There were no Arabs in our part of Avon.
Stephen looked up, eyes wide, shaking his head.
“What?” I sneered, staring at the streaks of red sauce. 
“What you just said…

By Matthew Roy Davey

Website: https://matthewroydavey.wordpress.com/

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On Segregation and Saushilyam

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…who till the land must not elevate their eyes to the skies. Shambhuka is an untouchable. Rama is casteist.

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School had a great hall of sorts, where people gathered for various things. It was a long, wide, rectangular building made entirely out of hollow-blocks, crowned with a wooden frame on top like an inverted keel of the ship covered with red-oxide roof tiles. The windows were a leafy green and the walls, a slowly-fading-into-dusty-yellow white. Red for passion, white for peace and green for prosperity. The colours of human values. 

We gathered in there for every morning for prayer…

By Sindhuja Veeraraghavan

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/sindhuja.veeraraghavan.9

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What is Race?

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What is race? is it me? is it you? is it a color? is it culture?
What is race? Some say it's a nationality. Some actually believe it's just the color of the skin. But what is race to me? Race is a form of division, a way to separate natural human life and place a stigma upon human individuals. I don't believe in race because in all actuality technically we are but One race which is human. So what is race? My idea of race is a method to form...

By Jesus Pagan

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