We haven’t come so very farIn keeping Blacks on equal parAnd we are poorer for it. Perhaps it would be if we hadThings wouldn’t be so very badBecause of pent up emotion. They did not ask to come hereWhile subjected to awful fearResulting in others’ profit. Wronging them in every mannerWe […]
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I was touched to write this poem because of the prevalence of “anti” in the news. When this was covered on my local TV station about the incidents against Asian Americans, an Oriental woman made the comment, “Why are they hurting us? They like our food.” The four stanzas below […]
This essay by Gail Lipsitz first appeared in the August 2020 issue of JMORE Living. “I can’t breathe!” The desperate cry of George Floyd, handcuffed, flat on the ground, pleading for his life as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for an excruciating 8 minutes and 46 […]