They Beat Us Again

It's never just me.
Sometimes I wish it was only me.
But it's never only me.
They hate everyone who's different.

I have a friend who is a Freshman
Named Ra'smed A'Hara
They beat him over and over and over again
Just because he prayed in a mosque
And had the gall to not have been born in the United States.

They aren't skinheads or Neo-Nazis.
But they are just as bad.
They're cruel and they're vicious.
They threaten and beat and sometimes they even hospitalize
And somehow the school system lets them get by with it.
The city lets them get by with it.

It hurts.
I don't feel like I have an ally anywhere.