It's America,1995 Poem by Roger Gerald Hicks
It's America,1995
It's equal opportunity.
Including n____,
there are more
names for people of color
than Eskimo words for snow.
"I was beaten and
robbed at an ATM by two
black thugs, "
I tell a white fellow worker.
(That's how it happened.)
He shudders, ponders.
Later, relating my pain
to a black friend-
he solemnly utters:
"I'm sorry."
Staring back,
comprehending fully,
I hug him.
"Me too, " I reply.
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