Racist America

America can never become a non-racist country
until we admit we have been a racist country
since the day the English Captain, John Colyn Jope,
landed his slave ship, The White Lion,
in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.

It’s not that everyone in America is a racist,
although many have been.
It’s that most of us are indifferent
to injustice that does not impact us.