Nigger, Watch Your Back.. [ Inspired By A Book I Read, By Richard Wright**: The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow; Short; African-American Civil Rights; Racial Discrimination ] Poem by Bri Edwards
Nigger, Watch Your Back.. [ Inspired By A Book I Read, By Richard Wright**: The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow; Short; African-American Civil Rights; Racial Discrimination ]
Richard Wright (1908-1960)died of a heart attack.
When growing up, ‘black', in Mississippi, he learned to watch his "nigger" back,
i.e. he learned ‘his place' in dealings with the dominating ‘Southern Whites'.
He didn't live long enough to witness emerging U.S. "Civil Rights".
President Lincoln's 1860s Emancipation Proclamation "freed" slaves.
Blacks could no longer be owned, BUT, for many, "plagued" could be their days.
(winter 2018-2019)
To "watch one's back" means to be careful, which could mean to stay out of trouble or be ready to defend against injury. ]
This is an amazing and brilliant poem wisely penned on perceptional history.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/26/2024 9:07:56 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Congratulations. After all, you didn't spend your time in vain in NC reading in the lab all sorts of material. You became an ardent defender of the fighters against racial discrimination. Do blacks steel have to " watch their backs? "