If You Choose To Judge Me Poem by Francis Duggan

If a stranger ask me what country do you come from?
Such question I do not pretend to hear
In case by my race that person well might judge me
Though many may see that as an unfounded fear.

Yet it is true that by your race people will judge you
Which I find very hard to understand
For I've met with the very best of people
From every race and every different land.

And I've known people of all creeds and races
From Africa and India and Pakistan,
From Britain and from all countries of Europe
The U.S. and Australia and Japan.

And in every race you meet the finest people
And why judge the masses for the evil few
The person you are judging may look different
But as a person much better than you.

If you choose to judge me judge me as an individual
And not because of my Nationality
For I have mixed and worked with different races
And all of mankind are of one family.