Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Lives Matter. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

No Compromises (July 6, 2016)

Society's paradigm
Has shifted
Once more.

Regardless
Of your religious
Or social beliefs.

In accepting
Human rights
Apply to everyone.

And not
Just for:

White
Straight
Cis-gender
Christians.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: On Sunday, July 3, 2016, the protest group, Black Lives Matter, held Toronto's Pride parade hostage, for 30 minutes, as they protested, against the inequality and exclusiveness of the Pride Parade, towards visible minorities, like Aboriginal and Asian Canadians. I wonder, what are they proposing to deal, with the rampant homophobia and transphobia, within the various Afro-Canadian communities? Having myself, experienced, first hand, these forms of hate-based ignorance, during various times of my life.

My first new poem that I have written, in almost 11 days, for me.

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