People Like Me Zoe Vang

People Like Me

“In the world, my people have no place to call home, we...” are unseen as people and told to leave. When we fought side by side with this place, that. Outcasts: people like me not seeing how much that.

We too are people. “We are people!”

People that felt grief from all those years ago fighting by this side. To have a place to go with peace and less violence.

Where kids like me aren’t getting trafficked somewhere. That makes me feel at ease; things like this keep me at ease, but with the change it also has changed me, attacked.

On the streets ‘cause of this disease. People like me kept the keys in a place so they wouldn’t be seen, being blamed for these things are the wrong thing, just

like getting told to go back to where you came from when people like me don’t have a place to call home in this distant world. We need to be accepted, no matter our race.

Zoe Vang, Grade 9 Patrick Henry High School, Minneapolis Teaching Artist: Frank Sentwali