"Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races" by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Cervantes speaks of the truth of racism and prejudice's. There is wisdom and poignancy throughout the poem. The accounting of these political opinions creates the persona of the speaker; could it even be Cervantes herself? "I'am not a revolutionary. I don't even like political poems. Do you think I can believe in a war between races? I can deny it. I can forget about it when I'm safe, living on my own continent of harmony and home, but I'am not there." It is statements like this one, with a high degree of "politicalness", that I find myself in. This world would be a perfect one if the ideas of distinction and opression ceased to exist.