white colour

The news said white nationalist

oxymoron

how can you be for a country

and against half its citizens?

They said white supremacist

aren’t we over that

apparently not say the KKK

Shocked that there still is KKK

white is now its the dirty word

dragged through the mud

of racist rhetoric

I am not a minority

I do not apologize

I was born this colour

I don’t see it as my race

I don’t identify it as my culture

It just is

It means I burn easy

but to some

colour has become a divider

why can't it be just a colour
someday when it doesn't evoke
slashes of discrimination

how do we heal

a history of pain

we can’t, can we

Can we move forward

and be kind to one another

because colour is beauty

and we need colour in our lives

(c)2017 Catherine Elder