paradise ventures

by Staff Writer

Clean slate

Why is the black man made to feel rejected

Then be thrown into the system

Where he will be misrepresentated

Then eventually he is incarcerated

I'm not making excuses because we're a minority

But why do we make up the majority in prison

Because some of us made the wrong decision

But when we're released and try to do what's right

Our past has become our plight

But we've got God now

And He has shown us the light

Although the world may still treat us mean

Our Lord and Savior has wiped our slate clean

............Marvin Crutchfield