I see them, from backgrounds tough
\nApproach me on the street
\nAnd I am wary, as close enough
\nThey are to me when I meet
\nThese striding, strutting chancers rough
\nI with grim face meet…
\nDo the blacks in Alabama or elsewhere
\nWith people like me endure
\nWho through them with superior stare
\nLook down on others impure
\nAs if they were not there
\nOr wished it so, of that they’re sure?
\nHow can a white man is his own land
\nBy his fellow man be seen in such a way
\nThat those of his own race, his presence cannot stand
\nFor he too knows fear, and joy, and how to pray
\nBut fear is what we must understand
\nIs what makes the world this way.
\nHe looks dodgy… he might stab and rob
\nIs the thoughts in the mind
\nOf those with gum in the gob
\nWho a way to avoid try to find
\nAnd the fact they are the snob
\nIs something to which they are blind.
\nBut empathy and humanity
\nAre luxuries of those far away
\nFrom living where these people be
\nTalking and threatening, day to day
\nBy their stance and look, and cannot see
\nThe rich too are made from clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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