You want me to be a supporting cast <br />because you don't think I can lead, <br />you look at me as inferior <br />because that's what you were taught to believe <br />I try to get memberships at your elite clubs, <br />but you say 'I won't fit in, <br />instead of checking my background <br />you look at the color of my skin, <br />I take my 'blue-eyed sister' out for lunch <br />you say 'I must be trying to steal her <br />if I wore 'dreadlocks or carried a 'backpack', <br />you'd label me as a drug dealer, <br />I try to show different ways of doing things <br />you say 'none of them would ever work', <br />simply, because the ideas were mine, <br />you feel so humiliated that it hurts, <br />you know, I wasn't really a bad person <br />hell, you might've became a fan, <br />if you'd taken a few steps 'outside the box' <br />and given me a fair chance.<br /><br />Bernard Snyder<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stereotyped-3/
