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The Canadian government has been discriminating against First Nations children for many years. Currently, First Nations children, families, and communities don't get the services they need, including for education. What's even more horrifying is the fact that many children are being taken from their loving families and put into foster… Read More

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The Booksie Classic House

THIS IS AN ANTI RACISM, ANTI-WAR STORY: A dystopian city divided by cruel apartheid into purists and undesirables faces annihilation by robotic drones. Maria tells tales, informing the authorities of the whereabouts of undesirables, sending them to certain death. Widowed by warfare, she must fight to save herself and her… Read More

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Even the spirits of ancestors couldn’t help when living souls were determined to pursue destructive paths. After all, once spirits depart from this world, they reach a blissful state where our prayers and cries are like a child throwing stones at a distant star—they never reach, and those spirits are… Read More
How i was traumatized by a white dr by the name of michael d'angelo at harrisburg hospital ,and couldnt get any help to complain,true story Read More
Some quick thoughts on the recent US presidential election and some reactions to it. Read More
‘A New Equation’ explores the brutal arithmetic of global inequality in a warming world. Through stark comparisons, the poem questions why environmental tragedies in wealthier nations gain widespread sympathy, while suffering in poorer nations is often ignored. It challenges readers to confront the deep-seated double standards and racial biases underlying… Read More
Growing up in an all-white town in Tennessee wasn’t easy for Boo. She learned that she wasn’t like everyone else and that the color of her skin made her less human. Being bullied every day, Boo learned self-hate and didn’t want to keep living. Read More
It is my understanding that a true anti-racist can give a straightforward answer to each and every question. Read More
this illustrates the pervasive racism in the south when i was a child in the 1960's. Read More
A memory of a young man confronted with the racism in his mother's family in the Deep South in the 1960's. Read More
Elijah must say goodbye to the angel who stood beside him through the tough time of apartheid. Read More
Atrocities of The Beasts from The East. Read More
Holly and my experience one Saturday morning having breakfast at one of our favorite family owned diners. An All American breakfast, in an All American Diner, in an All American City. Read More
Documenting the abuse I've suffered at the hands of my disgusting narcissistic family! Much of the material in this book was banned by crown court (2009-2014) as well as a second legal gagging order just a few years ago. Copyright The Elusive Mr Dunne.. (All rights reserved) Read More
In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, racism still rears its ugly head every Winter, like the Swallows returning to Capistano. Except here, it is hate that fills the sky with shadows of seasons past, when white superiority reigned without boundaries and without emotion -- all about power and control.… Read More

Poem / Poetry

September 09, 2023

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The Free Verse House

We make light of the problem of racism in America! Not everyone, but if we all treated racism like our child was in danger, we’d fight like hell to end it! Read More

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My first short story of my first altercation in a country pub when I was only sixteen years old. Read More
***IT'S A SATANIC 7Os CULT THING*** Read More
With all the stuff that was going on in the world when I wrote this (July 2015) I used writing to let off some angst, wrath, fear, confusion, etc. This is not a full story, and is barely a snipit of one. But I will be using it as a… Read More
If a culture is sick it'll naturally produce a sick people. However, it is only a sick society that can produce a Son Of Man. What other kind of culture would need them? Read More
Guardian Angel is a short, short story about racism, and not being welcomed in certain neighborhoods. The story is about a female with a history of panic attacks getting lost in a strange neighborhood. The short tale demonstrates that there is still good in the world when a good Samaritan… Read More
Too many Black People in America have been much too silent for much too long. We have yet to evoke the power of our Ancestors to defeat this internal demon of man, RACISM! Read More

Poem / Poetry

February 16, 2022

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The Booksie Classic House

North America is built on slavery, yet why is it that so many black people are miss-treated in society? African-American people are more American than most, for it is their labour that is a motif in North American culture. Rest In Piece Emmett Till, you're death inspired a whole world… Read More
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