<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440235" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Obvious Flaws Too Many Wore Like Badges</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Examine me! <br>Go ahead.<br>I've been 'examined' all my life.<br>Examined as a child, <br>In elementary school.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They are sweet...<br>And such adorable poor 'project children'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ridiculed with my sister.<br>Like we were freaks.<br>And compared and dehumanized.<br>In front of white children...<br>Who were taught to despise us, <br>Before they took flight to the suburbs.<br>And did all they could...<br>To deny both the intelligence, <br>And rights of Negros where I lived! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Examine me! <br>You go right ahead.<br>But I defy you to say...<br>My deeds are mediocre! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact...<br>Incompetence is something I had long recognized.<br>As I was being examined.<br>But I was never thought to be of 'that' kind of mind, <br>To correct obvious flaws too many wore like badges...<br>And paraded in the finest of pretentious snob-like fashion.<br>As I was being examined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440235" data-title="Obvious Flaws Too Many Wore Like Badges de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Examine me! Go ahead. I've been 'examined' all my life. Examined as a child, In elementary school. 'They are sweet... And such adorable poor 'project children' And ridiculed with my sister. Like we were freaks. And compared and dehumanized. In..."></div> </div> </div>

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