Elearning assignment

Hands stained with blood

Conscience charred with guilt

I can’t figure the reasons

Can anyone explain

He now takes his leave

Smiles a weary smile

He walks to the platform

The last place he will stand on

Though it shouldn’t be

Puppet strings to his soul are cut

His halo drops around his neck

The ground opens and swallows

What’s left in pain

Another that adds up the numbers

He knows not of wrongs he’s done

Died for plain hate

Perhaps it’s just the colour

For to the fairest of them all

To negro is to sin

It’s passed down like the first name,

Both the hatred and the dis

Their children will then learn

To scratch blackboards with hate

Land of the free and the home of the brave

Not while some here are treated like slaves

Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase

Puts the fair to shame

If you walk with us, white man

You’ll find that we all bleed the same

Suck it and see, dear friend

You’ll find that it makes a better game

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that are endowed…with unalienable Rights…that among are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…” – Declaration of Independence.

This piece of writing is targeted at people who are 13 and above. It is about the acts of discrimination against blacks and the suffering that is caused by it. The reason why the message is delivered through a poem of sorts is that it allows people of most ages to receive the message.  The writing piece uses the central route to persuasion in persuading readers about the negatives of discrimination. In doing so, readers will imagine the suffering and the injustice towards the discriminated. This allows them to see why discrimination should not be practised and that some prejudices are formed from very shallow reasons.