April Is National Poetry Month!
WHITE AND BLACK
MARCUS GARVEY
The white man held the blacks as slaves,
And bled their souls in
living death;
Bishops and priests, and kings
themselves,
Preached that the law was right and just;
And
so the people worked and died,
And crumbled into material
dust.
Good God! The scheme is just the same
Today, between
the black and white
Races of men, who gallop after fame.
Can'st
Thou not change this bloody thing,
And make white people see the
truth
That over blacks must be their king,
Not white, but
of their sornber hue,
To rule a nation of themselves?
October 31, 1927
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