Is It Because I Am Black?

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.Angry

Why do men smile when I speak, And call my speech The whimperings of a babe That cries but knows not what it wants? Is it because I am black?

Why do men sneer when I arise And stand in their councils, And look them eye to eye. And speak their tongue? Is it because I am black?

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
Mood:
Angry
Topics:
speech, racism, blackness

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