Brown skin,
Black skin,
White skin,
But red blood.
Same brains,
Same currency,
Same buses,
But different rights?
He donated ‘black’ blood,
It saved a ‘white’ life
The black blood did not choose; it did not discriminate
It blended with the ‘white’ blood
Little babies in playing parks
They know not black, brown nor white
They see babies
They see playmates
But we poison them
Teach them to discriminate and hate
Someday a generation will rise
That will only know human with dignity as the Grundnorm
Poem written by Nyameino Douglas Onyari, an intern at the WYA Africa regional office.
