<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Standards Valued</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their leaders fed them greed.<br>That has led them to a brick wall, <br>Stalled.<br>And now they wish to push their ignorance to new limits.<br>Since their selfish way of life...<br>Has been severely for them, <br>Diminished.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They still choose to refer to 'them' as 'those'.<br>With every need they had from 'them'... <br>Stolen.<br>Gold and oil and treasured gems.<br>All of it belonging to 'those' and not 'them'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all their interests... <br>Has been for them to pick conflicts.<br>On foreign lands.<br>And now their debts made that must be paid...<br>Are owed to foreign hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on their own shores a man elected, <br>To lift them out of their own swill.<br>Is scrutinized not for his ability...<br>But for his skin color.<br>Some have chosen to overshadow...<br>In pointless debates! <br>To smother his abilities...<br>And his apparent skills! <br>At a sacrifice to belabor their weight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As those of small minds, <br>Are overheard reminding themselves...<br>'But he is BLACK! <br>How will his mind 'absorb'...<br>What we know from birth he lacks, <br>Because of that fact! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fools of gluttony! <br>With minds poisoned from sheltered environments.<br>Believe themselves the 'chosen ones'.<br>Although their evilness...<br>Makes them the most barbaric on Earth.<br>Always on a binge of defensiveness.<br>Always seeking enemies and terrorists.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they fear their standards valued, <br>Will change! <br>And threaten the darkness...<br>They wish not to miss with a protectiveness.</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=442734" data-title="Standards Valued de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Their leaders fed them greed. That has led them to a brick wall, Stalled. And now they wish to push their ignorance to new limits. Since their selfish way of life... Has been severely for them, Diminished. They still choose to refer to 'them' a..."></div> </div> </div>

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