• I am Out of Line How dare you censor me? You have a facist democracy chosen by itself whose leader is a redneck with a Hitler complex And I am out of line? You seek desperately for a head on which to put the blame when it obviously is nobody’s fault but your own. You beg for monetary compensation For your maltreatment of yourself All because you wanted a damn cheeseburger And I am out of line? You select from a crowd A scapegoat dressed in black with nipple rings and one-inch holes in his ears You condemn him with no thought of his guilt or innocence Only worrying about the fact that he did not meet your standards of acceptible appearance And I am out of line? You destroy the minds of developing children you placed a computer in their hands and call yourself just you disregard those on whom your job depends and those whose job it is to make you seem like less of an idiot all so you can appease your stupid agenda And I am out of line, Dr. Edwards? You preach to your children that all people are equal Yet you call the man who cut you off a stupid nigger and I am out of line? You treat me as an inferior and stirp me of my rights and free will you order me to respect you And I am out of line? How can I be the aggressor When all I do is not stand when I choose not to compromise My morals to please you simple minded cretins Because I refuse to stand and pay respect to something I do not nor will I ever have any respect for If inteligent, individualistic thought is a crime, If logic is a crime, If speaking the truth instead of believing the lies is a crime, Then I am out of line. The intent of my poem was not to cause any harm, however I did wish to cause some people to think, to raise a few eyebrows while getting my point across. I was unaware of the fact that my message could be misconstrued. In no way did I intend to cause anyone to take offense. I only wanted to show that hypocrisy is an all too common trait in American society. The lines in question “You preach to your children that all people are equal, yet you call the man who cut you off a stupid nigger,” were not intended to offend, but merely call to attention the fact that such actions are apalling, and that committing said acts is one of the greatest sins that takes place in this country today. I did not intend to, nor did I commit these actions. I was only using the offensive term in order to further prove my point that it should not be used. Had I utilized any other term, my message would not have come across. One may argue that writing my poem was acceptible, but reading it to the class was where the digression was committed. The fact of the matter is that my poem had been approved for reading by a member of English Department, who was present for my recitation. The teacher’s exact words on reading the first draft of my poem were “You might want to clean it up a little. Take out this word here [jackass] and take out the stanza about Dr. Edwards.”In the spirit of artistic expression, I decided to keep the foul language to a school-appropriate level. I fail to see where, having been asked to read a book which uses this word several times, I would be at fault for using it in an unoffensive manner to demonstrate a universally pure point to which everybody can relate.

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