a picture & a poem: thinking about inequality this week...

civil rights protestors stuck between tanks
and bayonets of the national guard - 1968

I, TOO, SING AMERICA by langston hughes

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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--
I, too, am America. 


(poem source)