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How can I tell you of this havoc in my mind?
I am torn in two Half Black and Half White What am 1 really? Do 1 treat the other side of me inferiority? Do I restrict my Black side like others? 1 was born out of wedlock An accident that should never have been. Shall I deny myself certain rights? Can I ever be an individual? Will I ever be treated as somebody? Do 1 belong anywhere? I do not understand the ways of my Aboriginal Ancestors. 1 will never be accepted as one of the Whites. Rebuffed and avoided by my o wn But, what is my own? Who are my own? I am a cast out; A survivor of a ship wreck A survivor that won't survive lung au' birthly kingi
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Mana (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 18 August 1977, Page 7
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135Identification Mana (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 18 August 1977, Page 7
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