Everyone needs to be black for a day <br />To hear all the insults that white people say, <br />And to learn of the hardships and problems they face <br />The world then would be a much friendlier place. <br /> <br />Everyone needs to be black for a day <br />To know what they go through and price that they pay, <br />To see how they suffer, to see their despair <br />To see how life treats them for it's so unfair. <br /> <br />Everyone needs to be black for a day <br />And to live in a ghetto of damp and decay, <br />Forgotten, unwanted and branded with blame <br />And to learn underneath that we are all the same.<br /><br />ANDREW BLAKEMORE<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/black-for-a-day/
