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OPINION

.....Why is it always about You? ..........................................By Suntou Touray..........................March 22nd, 2008 From when we can remember Through the days of our ancestors Relationship between races Never a handful of roses A relationship Never about us Noting to share Not a thing to care. Born into a world of un-equals Things never going our way From rulers to the rank and files Never working for us Why is it always about You? International agreements pass on Never in favour of us as one We deserve Respect, don’t we? Our talents and capabilities no one sees Not even our inalienable competence The slogans, the charities, the grants, the aids Frequent conflicts, poverty and disease Corruption, short-life span and self-hate Isn't that enough suffering? Why is it always about You? Turn to laws in the west Perception, the image of Black African More than negative Life of a race with so bad an image Life of a man with so little honour Men and women who deserve much respect Gains of big hands lesser in value Turned into subject of critical focus Right and left wing politicians alike Immigration laws, integration Whole people demonised An under-employed workforce On jobs just to make ends meet Never acknowledged Time enough to keep life Our affairs, our destiny Why is it about You? O the union of mankind What a matter of race, race and creed. Jobs for blacks jobs for Asians East and West Union Jack Not a word of colour but language Black, Asian, Other yet one language Eastern Western united by colour divided by language Here to stay there to leave A way of seeing We and Them Integration, alienation, segregation, racial discrimination The truth be it told Same human, different people Some are Africans, some are Asians They are Western others Eastern We are people of a universe for you and for me From the beginning we have been Ever we shall be. Yours and mine no matter ....................The Cage ..................................................By Yero Jallow.................March 10th, 2008 It's a cage With lofty guards at loose Standing lanky tall Armed with lethal to the teeth Whilst wolves in sheep's skin Executing the men of time By a lethal injection One by one with a shot. It's a cage Lonely gallows Behind the barb wires Besides the thick walls With circular electric cables Connected to a high voltage Executing the men of time One by one with a shock. It's a cage Worldly hellfire With a gun-butt or bullet Slammed on a human skull Damaging the brain at loose And deaths' whip on the backbone Fainting to death twice a day One by one with a knock. One day, one day – When God's clock alarms aloud And the guards and their king Answers to the call of justice Tears rolling down in flood rains Their hearts beating thunder claps In regression of birth And their deeds against decent humanity. ................© Copyright, 2006-2008: Gainako On-line Newspaper. Site Maintained by Gamway Computers