Chris,
People might find these agit-prop poems by Benjamin Zephaniah interesting.
Freda
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White Comedy
I waz whitemailed
By a white witch,
Wid white magic
An white lies,
Branded by a white sheep
I slaved as a whitesmith
Near a white spot
Where I suffered whitewater fever.
Whitelisted as a whiteleg
I was in de white book
As a master of white art.
It waz like white death.
People called me white jack
Some hailed me as a white wog,
So I joined the white watch
Trained as a white guard
Lived off the white economy.
Caught and beaten by the whiteshirts
I was condemned to a white mass,
Don't worry,
I shall be writing to de Black House.
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Neighbours
from 'Propa Propaganda'
I am the type you are supposed to fear
Black and foreign
Big and dreadlocks
An uneducated grass eater.
I talk in tongues
I chant at night
I appear anywhere,
I sleep with lions
And when the moon gets me
I am a Wailer.
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