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Closing the door

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  So I have been going back and forth with my feelings on this subject. I am a African American Woman  that was born in a small town in Connecticut. Prominently the population was Caucasian, African  American, Puerto Rican and Indian. I grew up in a middle class neighborhood where I was beat up daily  by 3 little white boys from the time I was able to go outside to play solo until I was jumped on my front  porch and my mother told me it was okay to fight back .  We moved to an exclusive neighborhood where we were the only Blacks and some neighbors didn't take  to kind to their new neighbors. This neighborhood was where doctors, lawyers and other business owners  lived. My mother later shared that the house we had brought was directly across the street from where she  was once a maid for the owners. Two doors down from us was a man who didn't like Blacks and had a black dog trained to attack Blacks. So picture a eight year old little girl was ...

Not Another Son!

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We are so numb to the news now. Another black man shot, killed, and a protest! Time goes by and within 24 hours another part of the United States "Breaking News" another black child, teenager,and man is killed! It's 2018 and I am 53 years old. As a nation are we not moving forward? Why do I think I am living in a Jim Crow area? Why do I feel that now we as a people don't value another person's life. We don't mind killing someone who looks like us.  If you did your research you would probably see that you're killing someone from your own tribe, a blood relative, and someone son . I have seen cousins in opposite gangs ready to kill their blood relative for the gang. My mind can't take it because the same blood that runs through you is running through me.  I have written five books and in each I always write poems about the mass killing in our community, senseless killing of a man over selling a cigarette, another pulling a empty clip out of h...

Shot Rings Out

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Book Excerpt from There Is Sunshine After The Rain  A Shot Rings Out   As I walk down the street A shot rings out  A scream is heard  Another life is lost  A mother’s child is gone  There are protests  Black Lives Matter  Blue Lives Matter  All Lives Matter  All I know is a child is gone  A gun is in the wrong hands  Someone didn’t value a life  Someone walked into a sacred place  Took aim at the saints  One by one their souls escaped  A shot rings out   Everyone is running  Someone is trampled  Someone just wants to go to the club with their friends  Someone just wanted to walk down the street  Someone just wanted to make it home  A Shot Rings Out!!!! Submitted by, Patricia A. Saunders Author, Blogger, and Poet www.patriciaAsaunders.com