AMERICA

Who now will free those for whom this

promised land has failed its original purpose

to ascend, holding them now from the storied

arms of that statue of liberty — remember —

that once quietly welcomed them here to

these shores, long before this vile harvest of

hate took its present hold over us, at first over

the slave bound unfree, to now oppress those who

came even from their own and other troubled lands,

yearning to be free, who, for a time were left

to grow on their own, until they, too were

vilified for their somewhat different color,

or faiths, by those who who feared their assumed

privileges might be taken clean away,

drunk with power, although more powerless

than those they would oppress, emboldened by

their numbers only to strip the torch from our

lady of sorrows, and smash it to ground,

this new Whiteness, now upon us, the only

real blackness in this beautiful land.