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WWII Wide-World Of Intellectual Illiteracy WWII


Slavery, Institutionalized Slavery


You didn't take me away from a Place
You extricated me from Sacred Space Me


You developed and trained my mind
To blend in with your kind
To put you in the fore front
Leave myself behind


My mind was open to assimilation
Closed to self-realization
Education was the agent of control
Substituting society for my soul
An act of self-suicide for the good of the whole


Was it not the great minds of our times that sanctioned self-hatred
Made the truth oblique
Made education a conditioning process to obliterate being unique


Seek a role model, seek a hero
Don't seek being yourself, you're a zero
If education is the answer
It has a function similar to cancer


Americanization another appellation for education
Mind control, behavorial modification
Violence is a form of militaristic communication
I'm a clone, a mere cheap imitation


If I kill, it's because I'm trained
If I hate, it's because I'm trained
If I steal, it's because I'm trained


I don't know who I Am but because I Am trained
I Am A Professional !!

Written by Josephine Dixon Banks

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