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I for one am very impressed by this girl's knowledge of world events, history and her ability to link them together into poetry. Had she written about the horrors of the Holocaust I doubt anybody would be sending apologetic voicemails to hundreds of parents. Yet because it's about a touchy subject known as racism, all of a sudden its taboo??!!
Off topic but somewhat related-I spent my spring break at UWI at the Mona campus in Kingston. It was a cultural exchange between students at FSU and those in Jamaica. Not a day went by that we didn't hear a lecture about British imperialism and all the wrongs that came about from it. Yet not once did one of the students through FSU (who is from Nottingham in England, came to FSU to study) get upset about her country being bashed because-hey, it's true.
The truth hurts but we cannot erase history. All we can do is acknowledge it and learn from our past so that we are not doomed to repeat it.
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