"Blasian" by Taylor Johnson, Pittsburgh CAPA

Carnegie Mellon University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards encourage high school and college students to personally examine issues of race through poetry and prose.

For more information on the awards program and for a complete list of 2012 winners, visit http://tinyurl.com/2012WritingAwards.

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[lovethyneighbourXx]

nice poem. it's so sad though that society is like pressuring people to be classified in one box, it annoys me. if there weren't so many labels the world would be such a better place i think, people would just be people, and then we could all just "be" instead of trying "to be" in a set box.