Slavery Institutionalized Slavery <br /> <br />You didn’t take me away from aplace <br />You extricated me from a sacred space Me <br /> <br />You developed and trained mu mind <br />To blend in with your kind <br />To put you in the fore front <br />And leave myself behind <br /> <br />My mind was open to assimilation <br />And closed to self-realization <br />Education was the agent of control <br />Substituting society for my soul <br />An act of self-suicide for the good of the whole <br /> <br />Was it not the great minds of our times that sanctioned <br />Self hatred <br />Made the truth oblique <br />Made education a conditioning process <br />To obliterate being unique <br /> <br />Seek a role model, seek a hero <br />Don’t seek being yourself, you are a zero <br />If education is the answer <br />It has a function similar to cancer <br /> <br />Americanization another appellation for education <br /> <br />Mind control, behavioral modification <br />Violence is a form of militaristic communication <br />I’m a clone, a mere cheap imitation <br /> <br />If I kill it’s because I’m trained <br />If I hate it’s because I’m trained <br />If I steal it’s because I’m trained <br /> <br />I don’t know who I am but because I am trained <br />I Am A Professional<br /><br />Josephine DixonBanks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wide-world-of-intellectual-iliteracy-wwii/
