Colorblind

we like to make the statement 

I am color blind 

I don't see color 

I don't see boundaries 

I don't acknowledge race 

that is the problem 

by ignoring race 

we ignore racism 

we ignore the dividers we have in society 

we ignore the walls we built 

we ignore the poison seeping through our veins 

we think just because we say 

I have black friends 

or Mexican 

or white 

or Asian 

we are not racist 

race is not to be treated as some type of green card 

we need to acknowledge that 

there is race 

and everyone is different 

but by ignoring race

we ignore their problems 

we ignore their fight and their struggles 

we sew racism in the same thread of race 

when we make the statement I am colorblind 

colorblind to what 

the innocent bystanders from the holocaust were colorblind 

and didn't understand why the jews were getting killed 

they summed  it to they were just a bunch of unlucky people no 

they were just in the majority the majority fails to recognize the minority 

because they do not experience  the full affects of what it means to be an outcast 

they are rarely the elephant in the room 

by blurring the lines of race 

we ignore culture 

we ignore people 

we ignore the origin

no, we merge them onto the copier 

and reproduce a carbon copy of who they were 

by making fashions magazine that promote racial assimilation

not diversity 

My afro is my pride 

so please respect 

that I am black 

I am not going to hide my skin 

I am proud of black veins 

that make me who I am 

you can choose not to see it 

but I will just keep putting it in your face 

I AM BLACK 

AND YES BABY I AM BACK 

oh you didn't notice really 

because you're colorblind 

cut the crap 

by failing to acknowledge difference we fail to create change