Tuesday, March 25, 2008

News at Eleven: Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am
And 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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