They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
It stuns me to think that this was written--that [Langston] Hughes faced these issues--just over fifty years ago. Michael S. Harper, currently a professor at Brown university, reminds us in his poem American History how bad it was at the nation's birth and how bad it still can be.
Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
from The Huffington Post: Poems About Racism
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