Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. she brings up key places where women and men alike have protested and spoken up to the obsessors. she uses this poem to speak to the people who are apart of these groups that fight for equal rights and that they have a voice and should be heard. because America isn't America without them. she makes it abundantly clear that being American is to accept the differences and the none conformity because that is truly the essence of being American
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- Apr 2022
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poets.org poets.org
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Tyrants fear the poet.
people fear poets because they often write about the tragedy and unjustness of the world with little regard to the ones who would ha e them be silent
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a poem by the people, the poor,the Protestant, the Muslim, the Jew,the native, the immigrant,the black, the brown, the blind, the brave,the undocumented and undeterred,the woman, the man, the nonbinary,the white, the trans,the ally to all of the aboveand more
america wouldn't be America if we ignored these people. America was made for those who stood against oppression not to become apart of it.
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There's a lyric in Californiawhere thousands of students march for blocks,undocumented and unafraid;
this part is pointing out immigration and how they're unapologeticly fighting for what is right. California is one of the most populated states with undocumented immigrants.
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- Mar 2022
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onbeing.org onbeing.org
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And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not
this reminds me of BLM, no matter how much we protest it feels like its never enough or our message isn't reaching the people it needs to.
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