The color of my tie
And the color of my skin
Won't alter what I know
Or change who I am within

Taste your own medicine
It's the same thing that you do
Maybe you'll figure out
Why everyone leaves you

Look beyond your mirror
At the face behind the glass
Inside you are inferior
You need more God than Sunday mass

Each time that you reflect
The cancer in you has grown
Do you still wonder why
You are always left alone?

See with better eyes
If your eyes are all you have
Watch your bias fossilize
Two good eyes will make it halve

Look inward to your heart
You will see the other side
Embrace your counterpart
Release this Aryan pride

Your Grandfather's glory
His Nazi blood within you
So proud to tell his story
So eager to hate those he taught you to

You assume they're guilty
Of the judgments that you make
You've said "They're Not Real People”
You can't convince me that they're fake

Claiming they're all the same
But I know that isn't true
And the only person you can make me hate
Is the person inside you

Toe to toe and eye to eye
Death can't get us pride apart
Now the only thing that needs to die
Is the hatred in your heart

12/30/1988

Author's Note: The manager of a store I worked in as a sales person was a woman whose grandfather had been a Nazi during WWII. She was a deeply hateful person who only accepted me after learning I am part German. One thing she did that I found annoying was play old records of German music, which I not only couldn�t understand a word of, but didn�t like the music either. She even told me how she had her grandfather�s war uniforms and medals hanging on the walls of her home. She seemed to think that because I was part of the Arian Race, I would feel the same way she did and she could tell me all sorts of things about her grandfather�s war heroics and how much she hated Jews and blacks, using the �N� word. She told me in an accusatory tone of voice that she would never hire a �N�r� because they would rob the store blind. from Seeds And Weeds @
http://astore.amazon.com/seedsandweeds-20 . JJ

Posted on 09/14/2005
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