Aboriginal - Girls Action Foundation

When we try to speak our minds we are labeled as militant,
They also say we are unintelligent, ignorant and troublemakers, but really we just don’t
give a shit.
You never heard about women getting beaten or children being molested,
Those things just didn’t happen much and if they did they were properly dealt with,
Now we’ve allowed the outside world to venture into our lives,
And lately it’s not uncommon to hear in our community about a husband hitting his wife.
I’m tired of society giving us a real bad rep.
We do what we do to provide for our families outside of the government’s help.
Because they can’t control us like they used to do,
They fear that we will turn on them one day and do what they did to us too.
I wish they’d take their drugs and alcohol, put it all on a boat,
Send it back across the seas and let their side be doped.
We have enough problems in our communities outside of the addictions;
We’re fighting every day against you, each other, and incurable sickness.
We’re fighting stereotypes, jail, prison, the government and disease,
So I wish that just for once they would just let us be.
It’s amazing when you think of how we were once called uncivilized,
Yet we provided sustenance for those Imperialists to survive.
They had to disrupt our lives and demoralize our world.
We didn’t have a word for hate, racism, or deed,
Now we’ve been overtaken by words and actions of their greed.
Our children don’t know their language or even about their culture,
And there are sickos in our communities that prey on them like vultures.
I guess my opinion could be seen as racist banter,
Or you could look deep inside and understand the anger.
I know so many people who are trying to get out of the stereotype that they’ve created,
But society is consumed by false images and so called actions of our hate.
A little bit about why I wrote “False Images”
Hannah Lazare
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