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We Do Not Have To "Try" To Be  Someone We Are Not

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We Do Not Have To "Try" To Be  Someone We Are Not

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This is a poem that depicts the life of an African -American

and his perspective on people's view on his culture and how it

impacts him.

American Income

By: AFAA Michael Weaver

The survey says all groups can make more money

if they lose weight except black men...men of other colors

and women of all colors have more gold, but black men

are the summary of weight, a lead thick thing on the scales,

meters spinning until they ring off the end of the numbering

of accumulation, how things grow heavy, fish on the

ends of lines that become whales, then prehistoric sea life

beyond all memories, the billion days of human hands

working, doing all the labor one can imagine, hands

now the population of cactus leaves on a papyrus moon

waiting for the fire, the notes from all their singing gone

up into the salt breath of tears of children that dry, rise

up to be the crystalline canopy of promises, the infinite

gone fishing days with the apologies for not being able to love

anymore, gone down inside earth somewhere where

women make no demands, have fewer dreams of forever,

these feet that marched and ran and got cut off, these hearts

torn out of chests by nameless thieves, this thrashing

until the chaff is gone out and black men know the gold

of being the dead center of things, where pain is the gateway

to Jerusalems, Bodhi trees, places for meditation and howling,

keeping the weeping heads of gods in their eyes.

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This video is a summation of

Asian Americans and their

#BananaStory of how their

culture has impacted their

lives living in America.

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This picture is a representation

of an Indian couple who embraces

their culture traditionally and

americanized.

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This song is called Christy Moore By Victor Jara. It depicts love and the struggle of being a Latino- American.

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Christy Moore Victor Jara lyrics subtitulado

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Destacadísimo cantante irlandes, hace suya esta composición de Arlo Guthrie y Adrian Mitchell. Víctor Jara ( 28-09-1932 + 15-09-1973), was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter. Shortly after the U.S.-backed 9/11 Chilean coup, he was arrested, tortured and ultimately shot to death by machine gun fire.

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“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." --Kofi Annan

There are often struggles having

a hyphenated a race. There is

sometimes a barrier between

the two cultures and of which one

associates with more. Many embrace

both cultures, but this is what shapes our

identity and who we are as a person.