America is a very ugly society and there are a lot of contradictions in it. There are issues that people do not want to deal with in the United States. People don't want to hear about slavery, for instance, they're tired of hearing about it. Well, they're going to hear about it until the society reaches a point where there is no need to hear about it anymore, where it's just something that is accepted as a part of history, that it was wrong, and that there has to be some form of reparation. People need to stop denying it.
Racism is something that's systematic, it's ingrained in our culture.
The only way it's going to be extracted is through a systematic extraction. It's not enough just for me to keep writing poems about it. It has to be a systematic extraction, so that it's incorporated in our educational system, in the law, in the police department. All of those things have to happen for us to resolve this problem. Many Black men deny their responsibilities to their families.