Stamped

By Jessie Tornabe

 The idea of race,

Created to divide us, 

Created to make one side more powerful than the other,

Europeans justified their racist beliefs,

Portraying people of color as evil,

Because they didn’t believe in Christianity,

They portrayed them as filthy and poor,

Because some of those people were poorer than them,

Using these portrayals, 

They created so much fear and hate,

 In some of their followers,

That they started believing what they said,

Obvious people benefiting,

Caucasians, 

Creation of race benefited them, 

Because, 

It was created for white privilege, 

Making Caucasian people, 

Supposedly higher in power, 

Than others, 

Those people,

Those people were the sufferers, 

Portrayed as evil, 

Currently, 

Caucasians are still benefiting, 

Still “in power,”

And people of color, 

They are still discriminated against,

In modern 2021.