Race Equality
The poem entitled “Kid’s race equality” brought instant tears to my eyes when reading it. Although, I am a very sentimental person as is, this poem struck me in a way that such important issues like ones of race equality aligned with kids will. As children grow up, there is a sense “color-blindness” to their peers racial differences, class distinctions, and individual dissimilarities. It is society, media, and family who enhance that color in such a bright way that it is almost blinding to see, and impossible to ignore. It is here where the child is to redeem a sense of who they are, and who others are. This is the time where they choose friends, pick partners, and connect or disconnect themselves from their peers. This poem is not only pleasing to one’s ear, and enjoyable to say aloud but the words themselves scream to be heard. Heard by the children as they form their own identities and uniqueness and heard by the society as well. This poem is appropriate for absolutely any age group. Of coarse, to someone like myself (having experienced discrimination, prejudice and racism) it is extremely meaningful to me and I can relate to it on a personal level, but even for a young child the words of “playing, friends, games, and love” a child can instantly relate to and identify with as well. It inspires one to ponder about the similarities we, as human beings do have, and brings light to how our similarities outweigh our differences tremendously; this is something children need to see, read and hear. The rhyming in the poem enhances it in an artistic flow that naturally ripples off of the tongue. The images in the poem speak to young children playing games, and having fun, and this in turn brings myself to my inner child. The figurative language and the content absolutely relates to students’ lives as it sends a message of equality; something that is and always will be significant in every student, and every persons life, for their lifetime. The poem gets silly, it makes