An Historical Precedent…to The….No-Go-Zone Poem by James B. Earley

A simple drink of water
…..Mere rides on the bus
No-Go Zones our reality
…My childhood…was thus

Relegated to the balcony
‘Cause….the No-Go Zone
Required a different shade
….That crucial…skin tone

Remains documented truth
Though hypocritically disowned
There's timeless precedence
….In America's….No-Go Zone

Native Americans uprooted
…From ancestral…..homes
'Savages'...trespassing
….Declared….No-Go Zones

Our East Indian grandfather
Walking the neighborhood….
….No-Go Zone…mentality
‘Tis systemically understood

Suntanned face out of place
….Fuels hostility…homegrown
Philosophically embedded
….Hence……the No-Go Zone…

Itself…a critical indictment
..As this Nation's long shown
An historical…..precedent
…To…….the….No-Go…Zone