Thank You, Ruby Bridges
by Katelyn S.
Dear Ruby Bridges,
In our Social Studies class we watched a movie about you and how you went to a white school. I know I would’ve been totally freaked out! I decided to write a poem as a white person outside the white school you went to when you were younger.
Like you are twisted and wrong
We hate your kin
But in my heart I know
It’s sin.
We yell and holler
To make you scared
To make you want
To go home.
I hold back tears
As I want to help you
But I don’t for
I am afraid of my own kind.
If someone had helped
If someone had shown
They cared at the beginning
It would have changed
A lot of things.
But it took a while
For them to catch on
For them to see
What they’re doing is wrong.
The shouting is still
And forevermore
Ringing
In
My
Ears
…
Sincerely,
Katelyn S., 6th grade, Texas
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