An Atlanta high schooler's thought-provoking slam poem about privilege in America has gone viral - and he tells People that he's happy it's sparking debate across the Internet. The piece, performed by 14-year-old Royce Mann at a school competition in May, racked up over 650,000 views after his mother, Sheri Mann Stewart, uploaded it to YouTube. In the emotional poem, which Mann performed surrounded by his Paideia School classmates, he admitted, candidly, "To be honest, being privileged is awesome. I'm not saying that you and me on different rungs of the ladder is how I want it to stay." Royce, a rising 9th grader,...
- 7/15/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
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