By what sends
the white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
be President.
What don't bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We know everybody
ain't free.
Lies written down
for white folks
ain't for us a-tall:
Liberty And Justice--
Huh!--For All?
This poem by Langston Hughes is about the discrimination against African-Americans in the early and mid 1900s. He questions the phrase "Liberty And Justice For All" and says that he is bothered by things that white children take for granted. Hughes writes his opinion on the racial discrimination going on at the time through this poem.
No comments:
Post a Comment