we don/t just
...sing
nina / now she wz
pro segregation
she wanted us
young / gifted black
& (thankyou very much)
away from the white
likes-a them
oh / see line woman
...sing
billie/s ole grandma
lay down
& died beside the kid
they hadda break the old girl/s
rigis mortis arms to set the child / free
you listen
bt just maybe
you don’t hear a thing
sometimes i love black music
means i don’t know or care
anything about black people
but man / that etta
james / she sure
cn hold a tune
wonderin aloud where from
true sadness like hers
cd possibly come
spoken word 'bourne
sitting in place
ReplyDeletewith this old friend
to we spoke hisrory's heros and fools
keeping pace
I say of one cultured hero
and he, George Washington Carver
I open disgrace
to an historic fool
and he 'twas one... O.J. Simpson
a glare of disgust
o'er my black friend's face
as he said me out of his trust
that I, not a friend to his race
-a bigot you are, you must-
..........................................
Something I didn't think of at that time... lauding one black person, yet of that same breath, condemning another... to my friend it may have seemed I had hated them both, commonly, as their blood. Quickly, though he reacted and touched my shoulder; I understood,
and still close friends, we've not spoken of IT... since.
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