Nineteen Fifty-Six Best of 2020-2021 Melanin Magic
This is the first ever print edition of Nineteen Fifty-Six entitled Melanin Magic. This special issue features stories compiled from September 2020 to March 2021.
This is the first ever print edition of Nineteen Fifty-Six entitled Melanin Magic. This special issue features stories compiled from September 2020 to March 2021.
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A’NESHIA TURNER AND DERRICK THOMAS<br />
DISCOMFORT AROUND US<br />
To feel like an outcast in a world not so kind.<br />
To work twice as hard yet still feel far behind.<br />
After the year 1956 we thought it would guarantee,<br />
That Black people earned the right to more than a degree.<br />
The problem transcends Tuscaloosa, it is worldwide.<br />
How are we expected to not run and hide?<br />
We follow the laws and are told to be submissive.<br />
Yet when we talk <strong>of</strong> poverty and pain, they appear dismissive.<br />
They claim we are insane, changers <strong>of</strong> historic values.<br />
But they would never walk a day in our busted shoes.<br />
A lot <strong>of</strong> can'ts and disapprovals.<br />
A subjective justice system in place to handle our removal.<br />
We are Black and we don’t need your validation.<br />
We just want a better nation.<br />
65 NINETEEN FIFTY-SIX MAGAZINE
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