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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Black_Maria&amp;diff=4607543</id>
		<title>The Black Maria</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T20:26:39Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;  == Poetry == copyright belongs to poetryfoundation.com &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;  == Summary == The poet is concerned about Black Maria coming to get him. The upsta...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
The poet is concerned about Black Maria coming to get him. The upstairs music, if it's for him. He asks an unidentified female (called Babe only) if she's ever seen the fun-filled sun rise. The Black Maria is going by and a new day has started.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
The most important point in the poem of Langston Hughes is the race because from racial issues the Harlem Renaissance community he led was initiated. The background of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African Americans from country to city. A lot of intellectuals like Alain Locke led the Harlem Revival after World War 1, and Americans were interested in the history of African America. Langston Hughes is also one of those intellectuals and he believed that as they undergo the racial prejudice and inequality of modern American society, there will be a promising future for African Americans. In his poem 'Black Maria', this conviction was illustrated.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Hughes, Langston. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=22889 Black Maria]. Poetry Foundation.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: &lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Incident</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T20:13:31Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;  == Poetry == He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came     back, he shot, and he fell, stumbling, past the     shadow wood, down, shot, dying, dead, to full h...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came   &lt;br /&gt;
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back, he shot, and he fell, stumbling, past the   &lt;br /&gt;
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shadow wood, down, shot, dying, dead, to full halt.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the bottom, bleeding, shot dead. He died then, there   &lt;br /&gt;
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after the fall, the speeding bullet, tore his face   &lt;br /&gt;
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and blood sprayed fine over the killer and the grey light.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pictures of the dead man, are everywhere. And his spirit   &lt;br /&gt;
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sucks up the light. But he died in darkness darker than   &lt;br /&gt;
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his soul and everything tumbled blindly with him dying&lt;br /&gt;
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down the stairs.   &lt;br /&gt;
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We have no word&lt;br /&gt;
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on the killer, except he came back, from somewhere   &lt;br /&gt;
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to do what he did. And shot only once into his victim's&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
stare, and left him quickly when the blood ran out. We know&lt;br /&gt;
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the killer was skillful, quick, and silent, and that the victim   &lt;br /&gt;
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probably knew him. Other than that, aside from the caked sourness   &lt;br /&gt;
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of the dead man's expression, and the cool surprise in the fixture&lt;br /&gt;
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of his hands and fingers, we know nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
This poetry describes about horrible murderer which happens to black people.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
Born in 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones, after the assassination of Malcom X, Baraka changed his name to Amiri Baraka in 1965. His voice, even by contemporary standards, was a strong one: unabashed, fearless, full of spite and controversy. Since then, critics have sought to justify his overt sexism and homophobia in a number of ways (he was trying to hide his own homosexual impulses, he was using the colloquial language of the streets, etc.). His poems are raw and unapologetic, whatever the reason. They fall prey, at their worst, to the dangers of military nationalism and bigotry. His protest poems promote rebellion at their finest, and the desire for reform in a society that often does not respond to those silently oppressed and swept under the rug.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
Incident by Amiri Baraka is a poem about systemic oppression and racism against black people in the United States. Racism takes the form of killing black people by means of shooting. Black people were brutally shot and their bodies left on the streets. Maybe the perpetrator is someone the victim knows.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Baraka, Amiri. 1969. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42558/incident-56d2212863009 Incident]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved in January 1 2021.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Black Boys Play The Classics</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T11:25:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;  == Poetry == The most popular “act” in  Penn Station  is the three black kids in ratty  sneakers &amp;amp; T-shirts playing  two violins and a cello—Brahms.  White men i...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
The most popular “act” in&lt;br /&gt;
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Penn Station&lt;br /&gt;
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is the three black kids in ratty&lt;br /&gt;
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sneakers &amp;amp; T-shirts playing&lt;br /&gt;
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two violins and a cello—Brahms.&lt;br /&gt;
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White men in business suits&lt;br /&gt;
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have already dug into their pockets&lt;br /&gt;
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as they pass and they toss in&lt;br /&gt;
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a dollar or two without stopping.&lt;br /&gt;
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Brown men in work-soiled khakis&lt;br /&gt;
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stand with their mouths open,&lt;br /&gt;
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arms crossed on their bellies&lt;br /&gt;
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as if they themselves have always&lt;br /&gt;
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wanted to attempt those bars.&lt;br /&gt;
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One white boy, three, sits&lt;br /&gt;
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cross-legged in front of his&lt;br /&gt;
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idols—in ecstasy—&lt;br /&gt;
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their slick, dark faces,&lt;br /&gt;
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their thin, wiry arms,&lt;br /&gt;
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who must begin to look&lt;br /&gt;
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like angels!&lt;br /&gt;
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Why does this trembling&lt;br /&gt;
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pull us?&lt;br /&gt;
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A: ''Beneath the surface we are one.''&lt;br /&gt;
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B: ''Amazing! I did not think that they could speak this tongue.''&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
In Hamtramck, Michigan, the poet Toi Derricotte was born and earned her B.A. The University of Wayne State and an M.A. From New York University in English Literature. Her poetry books include The Empress of the Death House (1978), a collection based on her early encounters at the funeral home of her grandparents in Detroit, Natural Birth (1983), Captivity (1989), Tender (1997), the Paterson Poetry Prize winner, and The Daughter's Undertaker (2011) (2011).&lt;br /&gt;
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She also wrote a prose collection, The Black Notebooks (1997), which received the Non-Fiction Annisfield-Wolf Book Prize. In Contemporary Women Poets, Jon Woodson observed that Derricotte's &amp;quot;poems begin in ordinary experiences,&amp;quot; but she dissects the routine meanings given by society as a way of discovering what the self actually comprises unsuspected tools.&amp;quot; Derricotte's family life was marked by death, abuse, pain and racism; Derricotte's family life was marked by death, abuse, pain and racism in conjunction with her Roman Catholic schooling and light skin.&amp;quot; Derricotte disclosed in an interview with Contemporary Writers that:“As a black woman, I have been consistently confused about my ‘sins,’ unsure of which faults were in me and which faults were the results of others’ projections.” She added that, “truthtelling in my art is also a way to separate my ‘self’ from what I have been taught to believe about my ‘self,’ the degrading stereotypes about black women.” &lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
This poetry is a form of criticism of classical music. Classical music is considered to belong only to whites. This poem tells how black boys played classical music and broke these stereotypes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Derricotte, Toi. 1997. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42877/black-boys-play-the-classics Black Boys Play The Classics]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2021.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Tradition (2015)</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T11:20:20Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;A young poet from Louisiana, the 2009 American Book Award was won by Jericho Brown's debut poetry collection. His third compilation is The Custom, the book in which the titular poem appears. &amp;quot;The Tradition&amp;quot; parallels the tradition of planting and caring for the environment with aggression against African-Americans using a sonnet structure. Throughout the item, Brown lists flowers. The names of John Crawford, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, in the last line, take their place.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
''Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium.'' We thought&lt;br /&gt;
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Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning&lt;br /&gt;
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Names in heat, in elements classical&lt;br /&gt;
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Philosophers said could change us. ''Star Gazer.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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''Foxglove.'' Summer seemed to bloom against the will&lt;br /&gt;
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Of the sun, which news reports claimed flamed hotter&lt;br /&gt;
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On this planet than when our dead fathers&lt;br /&gt;
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Wiped sweat from their necks. ''Cosmos. Baby’s Breath.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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Men like me and my brothers filmed what we&lt;br /&gt;
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Planted for proof we existed before&lt;br /&gt;
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Too late, sped the video to see blossoms&lt;br /&gt;
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Brought in seconds, colors you expect in poems&lt;br /&gt;
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Where the world ends, everything cut down.&lt;br /&gt;
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''John Crawford. Eric Garner. Mike Brown.''&lt;br /&gt;
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==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
American poet Jericho Brown discusses the intersecting' histories' of blackness, whiteness, and queerness, of radicalized and sexualized violence, of American myth-making, and of American literature in his poetry collection The Tradition (2019). In the metaphor of flowers, many of these traditions are explored: their elegance, their fragility and their recurrence year after year. A finalist for the 2019 National Book Award was Brown's third collection, The Custom.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Author==&lt;br /&gt;
On April 14, 1976, Jericho Brown was born. He is an award-winning author, LGBTI activist, and community builder, and a beloved college professor.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Shreveport, Louisiana, Jericho Brown was born Nelson Demery, III, to Nelson Demery, Jr. and Neomia Lenoir Demery, who made their living cutting lawns and cleaning houses and other structures. The filmmaker, Nequella Demery, is his girlfriend. Brown was expelled a number of times, attending five elementary schools and two middle schools because of his family moving too much and his own actions. Brown credits his enthusiasm for language as a child to time spent in his local library.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
A dark American past and a dark American present clash with a realm of myth in In The Tradition. The tales that Brown gives us are old, and our tactics for telling them decide how we perceive the shame of others' pain. Brown wryly recasts Ganymede's rape by God in the opening poem as the wages of immortality. &amp;quot;That's the version I prefer,&amp;quot; his speaker says, &amp;quot;I like it / the safety of it, no one at fault, / rewarded everyone.&amp;quot; So often these myths stand for history in the collection. Our understanding of transactions of violence and damage forms the stories we tell: namely, slavery, imperialism, HIV, capitalism, and police brutality.The poem, so far away from the world of Olympus, ends with a direct comment. For Brown's novel, this is a piercing and unforgettable thesis: &amp;quot;The people of my country believe / If we can be bought, we can't be hurt.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Remarkably, the mythical retellings of Jericho Brown question the myths behind them and the ways in which they explain historical and contemporary abuse. There are eerie evocations of lynching and enslavement in a poem in the voice, probably, of Leda,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brown merges the names of flowers, &amp;quot;classical/philosophers said could change us,&amp;quot; and the death-bound subjectivity of black men, &amp;quot;Men like me and my brothers,&amp;quot; in the title poem, a remarkable sonnet condemning Age of Enlightenment notions of taxonomy. Brown draws a distinction between &amp;quot;the tradition&amp;quot; of natural science and &amp;quot;the tradition&amp;quot; of brutality at the hands of the state against black men. The flowers, imagined flowering as &amp;quot;proof we existed&amp;quot; in glorious and ephemeral colors in a video, yield the names of the missing men in the chilling final couplet of the sonnet: &amp;quot;Where the world ends, all is cut down.&amp;quot; / Crawford, John. From Eric Garner. Mike Brown.”&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Brown. Jericho. 2015. [https://poets.org/poem/tradition The Tradition]. Poets Org. Retrieved January 1 2021.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.supersummary.com/the-tradition/summary/ The Tradition by Jericho Brown]. Super Summary. Retrieved January 1 2021.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>A Black Man Talks of Reaping</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;== Poetry == I have sown beside all waters in my day.  I planted deep, within my heart the fear  that wind or fowl would take the grain away.  I planted safe against this star...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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I have sown beside all waters in my day.&lt;br /&gt;
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I planted deep, within my heart the fear&lt;br /&gt;
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that wind or fowl would take the grain away.&lt;br /&gt;
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I planted safe against this stark, lean year.&lt;br /&gt;
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I scattered seed enough to plant the land&lt;br /&gt;
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in rows from Canada to Mexico&lt;br /&gt;
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but for my reaping only what the hand&lt;br /&gt;
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can hold at once is all that I can show.&lt;br /&gt;
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Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields&lt;br /&gt;
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my brother's sons are gathering stalk and root;&lt;br /&gt;
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small wonder then my children glean in fields&lt;br /&gt;
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they have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
This poetry tells about the bitterness of racism in America.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
Bontemps was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, but moved to Los Angeles at age three with his family. He took a teaching job in the Harlem section of New York City after graduating from Pacific Union College in 1923, where he became part of a community of African-American literary artists and scholars whose groundbreaking work was beginning to attract notice. Here Bontemps received The Crisis and Opportunity poetry awards, as well as newspapers devoted to the dawning &amp;quot;renaissance,&amp;quot; and began his lifelong friendship with Hughes.&lt;br /&gt;
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He married Alberta Johnson in 1926, who would bear him six children, and he accepted a position at Oakwood Junior College in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1931, as the Depression worsened. Bontemps published his first book, God Sends Sunday, also in that year, a novel about a St. Louis jockey. In 1946, when he was named Head Librarian at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, more permanent and gratifying jobs came, where he oversaw the expansion of one of the largest archives of African-American cultural content, while writing books on everything from slave rebellions to the famous Jubilee singers of the college.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
Bontemps represented the lives and hardships of African Americans in his novels and poetry, a theme that can be seen in his poem &amp;quot;A Black Man Talks of Reaping.&amp;quot; He uses the metaphor of farming in this poem to express the bitterness felt by blacks in a racist America. The message of the poem is that while white Americans reap, or harvest, the rewards, black Americans have labored long and hard just to look on.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Bontempts, Arna. 1926. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42877/black-boys-play-the-classics A Black Man Talks of Reapin]g. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2021.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=For_My_People_(1989)&amp;diff=4602930</id>
		<title>For My People (1989)</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T10:10:24Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;== Poetry == For my people everywhere singing their slave songs      repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues      and jubilees, praying their prayers ni...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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For my people everywhere singing their slave songs&lt;br /&gt;
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    repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues&lt;br /&gt;
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    and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an&lt;br /&gt;
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    unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an&lt;br /&gt;
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    unseen power;&lt;br /&gt;
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For my people lending their strength to the years, to the&lt;br /&gt;
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   gone years and the now years and the maybe years,&lt;br /&gt;
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   washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending&lt;br /&gt;
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   hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching&lt;br /&gt;
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    dragging along never gaining never reaping never&lt;br /&gt;
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   knowing and never understanding;&lt;br /&gt;
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For my playmates in the clay and dust and sand of Alabama&lt;br /&gt;
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    backyards playing baptizing and preaching and doctor&lt;br /&gt;
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   and jail and soldier and school and mama and cooking&lt;br /&gt;
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   and playhouse and concert and store and hair and&lt;br /&gt;
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    Miss Choomby and company;&lt;br /&gt;
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For the cramped bewildered years we went to school to learn&lt;br /&gt;
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   to know the reasons why and the answers to and the&lt;br /&gt;
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   people who and the places where and the days when, in&lt;br /&gt;
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   memory of the bitter hours when we discovered we&lt;br /&gt;
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   were black and poor and small and different and nobody&lt;br /&gt;
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   cared and nobody wondered and nobody understood;&lt;br /&gt;
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For the boys and girls who grew in spite of these things to&lt;br /&gt;
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   be man and woman, to laugh and dance and sing and&lt;br /&gt;
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   play and drink their wine and religion and success, to&lt;br /&gt;
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   marry their playmates and bear children and then die&lt;br /&gt;
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    of consumption and anemia and lynching;&lt;br /&gt;
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For my people thronging 47th Street in Chicago and Lenox&lt;br /&gt;
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   Avenue in New York and Rampart Street in New&lt;br /&gt;
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   Orleans, lost disinherited dispossessed and happy&lt;br /&gt;
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   people filling the cabarets and taverns and other&lt;br /&gt;
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   people’s pockets and needing bread and shoes and milk and&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    land and money and something—something all our own;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For my people walking blindly spreading joy, losing time&lt;br /&gt;
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    being lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when&lt;br /&gt;
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    burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied, and shackled&lt;br /&gt;
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    and tangled among ourselves by the unseen creatures&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    who tower over us omnisciently and laugh;&lt;br /&gt;
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For my people blundering and groping and floundering in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    the dark of churches and schools and clubs&lt;br /&gt;
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    and societies, associations and councils and committees and&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    conventions, distressed and disturbed and deceived and&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    devoured by money-hungry glory-craving leeches,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    preyed on by facile force of state and fad and novelty, by&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    false prophet and holy believer;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
    from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   generation full of courage issue forth; let a people&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   rise and take control.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
Walker discusses the tragic past of African American slavery in this poem, first published in 1937; the horrific racism still faced by people of color and taught to their kids; the dreams this community continues to keep alive amid the odds stacked against them; and the desire for a better future.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
The poet and novelist Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, to the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker and Marion Dozier Walker in Birmingham, Alabama. When Walker was a small child, the family relocated to New Orleans. Walker's father, a Methodist minister who was born near Buff Bay, Jamaica, was a scholar who gave his love of literature to his daughter: the classics, the Bible, Benedict de Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, the classics of English, and poetry. Likewise, Walker's musician mother played ragtime and read poetry to her, selecting from such diverse writers and works as Paul Laurence Dunbar, &amp;quot;Snowbound,&amp;quot; the Bible, and Shakespeare, by John Greenleaf Whittier. Walker started reading Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen's poetry at the age of 11. Walker's tales were told by Elvira Ware Dozier, her maternal grandmother, who lived with her family, including the story of her own mother, a former slave in Georgia. Walker had seen James Weldon Johnson read from God's Trombones (1927), listened to Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes sing in New Orleans until she completed college at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in the early 1930s, and, in 1932, heard Hughes read his poetry in a lecture recital at New Orleans University, where her parents then taught. In 1932, she met Hughes and inspired her to continue composing poetry. Her first poem to be written was in Crisis in 1934.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
Margaret Walker first addresses historic slavery as well as a different kind of slavery in Walker's time; though the institution of slavery was abolished, the institutionalized racism of society—a society that says that black people should be doing manual labor, working for others, or serving white people—remained, and it would continue for some time. Margaret Walker recalls her creative childhood play in Alabama and then, later, going to school, where she and her friends learned that they were “black and poor and small and different.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Margaret Walker continues, explaining how these children grew up into men and women who, despite having to face diseases and hazards that white people could usually avoid, sought to find happiness where and when they could. &amp;quot;She describes popular streets in black neighborhoods in different cities and how her people, despite lacking &amp;quot;something all [their] own, struggle to live their lives entirely and be &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot; despite lacking &amp;quot;something all [their] own.&amp;quot; She describes the great variety of her people, who are compelled to behave while &amp;quot;shackled&amp;quot; by racism and who are made by these unfair constraints relatively powerless. She describes the communities her people belong to, groups in which they strive to find solace and culture, while the state continues to &amp;quot;prey on&amp;quot; them, a government that punishes discrimination and racism.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-walker Walker, Margaret]. 1968. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/21850/for-my-people For My People]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.enotes.com/topics/for-my-people For My People by Margaret Walker]. June 2 2020. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Ballad of Birmingham</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;'Ballad of Birmingham' was first issued as a broadside in 1965. This applies to a large paper sheet that only has text on one side of it. They also reported news or events or...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'Ballad of Birmingham' was first issued as a broadside in 1965. This applies to a large paper sheet that only has text on one side of it. They also reported news or events or contained a ballad that had some form of social commentary in this case. As the epigraph says, this poem was written in reaction to the 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church. Four Ku Klux Klan members were attacked by the black congregation. The attack killed four young girls and wounded twenty-two others.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
(On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)&lt;br /&gt;
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“Mother dear, may I go downtown&lt;br /&gt;
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Instead of out to play,&lt;br /&gt;
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And march the streets of Birmingham&lt;br /&gt;
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In a Freedom March today?”&lt;br /&gt;
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“No, baby, no, you may not go,&lt;br /&gt;
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For the dogs are fierce and wild,&lt;br /&gt;
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And clubs and hoses, guns and jails&lt;br /&gt;
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Aren’t good for a little child.”&lt;br /&gt;
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“But, mother, I won’t be alone.&lt;br /&gt;
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Other children will go with me,&lt;br /&gt;
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And march the streets of Birmingham&lt;br /&gt;
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To make our country free.”&lt;br /&gt;
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“No, baby, no, you may not go,&lt;br /&gt;
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For I fear those guns will fire.&lt;br /&gt;
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But you may go to church instead&lt;br /&gt;
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And sing in the children’s choir.”&lt;br /&gt;
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She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,&lt;br /&gt;
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And bathed rose petal sweet,&lt;br /&gt;
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And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,&lt;br /&gt;
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And white shoes on her feet.&lt;br /&gt;
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The mother smiled to know her child&lt;br /&gt;
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Was in the sacred place,&lt;br /&gt;
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But that smile was the last smile&lt;br /&gt;
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To come upon her face.&lt;br /&gt;
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For when she heard the explosion,&lt;br /&gt;
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Her eyes grew wet and wild.&lt;br /&gt;
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She raced through the streets of Birmingham&lt;br /&gt;
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Calling for her child.&lt;br /&gt;
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She clawed through bits of glass and brick,&lt;br /&gt;
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Then lifted out a shoe.&lt;br /&gt;
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“O, here’s the shoe my baby wore,&lt;br /&gt;
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But, baby, where are you?”&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
Using this events that lead up to this little unidentified girl falling prey to the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombers, the poet takes the reader, stanza by stanza. At the beginning of the poem, she asks her mother if she should go into the city and march on the Freedom March. Her mother tells her no, suggesting she go to the church and the choir of children instead. That's what she's doing, and what ends up leading to her horrible death.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
Born in Washington, DC, the son of a pastor and a teacher, at the age of four, Randall wrote his first poem, moved to Detroit when he was nine, and had his poems first published when he was 13 in the Detroit Free Press. Randall, a bright student, graduated early. He received a BA in English from Wayne University (now Wayne State University) and an MA in library science from the University of Michigan after working at Ford's River Rouge Foundry for five years and serving in the South Pacific during World War II. Randall, who became Wayne County's reference librarian, spoke Russian fluently, visited Europe, Africa, and Russia, and later translated several Russian poems into English.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
The key themes of this poem are mother's love, death and battling racism. A tension between a daughter who wants to be part of the march for democracy and a mother who wants to shield her child from the risks of protest is described in the poem. That is why she asks her daughter to spend time within the church's secure walls. Ironically, however, the safest place turned out to be a fateful region in which her daughter died sadly.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is also important to understand the broader historical context, in addition to the history specifically surrounding the events in this poem. In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, this bombing, and the writing of this poem, happened. Martin Luther King Jr., along with many other courageous and heroic men and women, worked during this time to achieve equal protection under the law for all Americans of color. Many of the demonstrations and acts of violence were the focus of Alabama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Birmingham Movement alongside the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the same year that this assault occurred. The organizations urged children to engage in marches and demonstrations and to make it clear to every watch that it was generations of Black Americans who stood up for their rights. For his inhuman and abusive treatment of these demonstrators, the racist police chief, Bull Connor, is remembered today. He promoted police offers with their hands but also with fire hoses and dogs to attack protesters.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dudley-randall Randall, Dudley]. 1968. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46562/ballad-of-birmingham Ballad of Birmingham.] Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://poemanalysis.com/dudley-randall/ballad-of-birmingham/#Historical_Context Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Waiting on the mayflower (2006)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;== Poetry == ''“what, to the american slave, is your 4th of july?”—frederick douglass''   ''i.  august 1619''   arrived in a boat, named  and unnamed, twenty, pirated...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
''“what, to the american slave, is your 4th of july?”—frederick douglass''&lt;br /&gt;
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''i.  august 1619''&lt;br /&gt;
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arrived in a boat, named&lt;br /&gt;
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and unnamed, twenty, pirated&lt;br /&gt;
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away from a portuguese&lt;br /&gt;
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slaver, traded for victuals.&lt;br /&gt;
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drowned in this land of fresh,&lt;br /&gt;
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volatile clearings and folk&lt;br /&gt;
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with skin like melted&lt;br /&gt;
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cowrie shells. soon shedding&lt;br /&gt;
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servitude. soon reaping&lt;br /&gt;
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talents sown on african soil.&lt;br /&gt;
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after indenture, christians,&lt;br /&gt;
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colonists. not english, but&lt;br /&gt;
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not yet not-white. antoney&lt;br /&gt;
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and isabella, whose marriage&lt;br /&gt;
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stretched the short shadows&lt;br /&gt;
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of america’s early afternoon&lt;br /&gt;
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into the dusky reaches of evening,&lt;br /&gt;
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whose conjugal coitus spent&lt;br /&gt;
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first the choice coin of africa&lt;br /&gt;
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on rough virginian citizenship,&lt;br /&gt;
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baptized their son, william,&lt;br /&gt;
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into the church of england.&lt;br /&gt;
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''ii.  december 1638'' &lt;br /&gt;
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fear must have shuddered&lt;br /&gt;
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into boston on the backs&lt;br /&gt;
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of true believers''—''men and&lt;br /&gt;
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women of an unadorned god''—''&lt;br /&gt;
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deep in the heavy black fabric&lt;br /&gt;
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of their coats and dresses like&lt;br /&gt;
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a stench. black a mark of&lt;br /&gt;
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pride they wore as if branded,&lt;br /&gt;
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never dreaming they could&lt;br /&gt;
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take it off. envy anticipated&lt;br /&gt;
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their advent. glittered at them,&lt;br /&gt;
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settling in, from the knife&lt;br /&gt;
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blades of the massachusetts.&lt;br /&gt;
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seeped like low-pitched&lt;br /&gt;
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humming from the fur&lt;br /&gt;
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lining the natives’ warm&lt;br /&gt;
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blankets. but ''desire'' docked&lt;br /&gt;
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in 1638. in from the harbor&lt;br /&gt;
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flocked a people whose eyes&lt;br /&gt;
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sparked like stars, even near&lt;br /&gt;
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death. whose hair promised&lt;br /&gt;
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a mixture of cotton and river&lt;br /&gt;
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water and vines, a texture&lt;br /&gt;
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the fingers ached for. who&lt;br /&gt;
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wholly inhabited a skin the&lt;br /&gt;
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midnight color of grace&lt;br /&gt;
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that clarified the hue of the&lt;br /&gt;
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pilgrims’ woolen weeds. fear&lt;br /&gt;
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and envy claimed pride of place,&lt;br /&gt;
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put ''desire’s'' cargo to good use.&lt;br /&gt;
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''iii.  march 1770'' &lt;br /&gt;
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that night, crispus attucks&lt;br /&gt;
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dreamed. how he’d attacked&lt;br /&gt;
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his would-be master and fled&lt;br /&gt;
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in wild-eyed search of self-&lt;br /&gt;
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determination. discarded&lt;br /&gt;
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virginia on the run and ran&lt;br /&gt;
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out of breath in salt-scented&lt;br /&gt;
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boston. found there, if not&lt;br /&gt;
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freedom, fearlessness. a belief&lt;br /&gt;
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in himself that rocked things&lt;br /&gt;
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with the uncontrolled power&lt;br /&gt;
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of the muscular atlantic, power&lt;br /&gt;
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to cradle, to capsize. awoke&lt;br /&gt;
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angry again at the planter&lt;br /&gt;
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who’d taken him for a mule&lt;br /&gt;
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or a machine. had shouldered&lt;br /&gt;
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a chip the size of concord&lt;br /&gt;
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by the time the redcoat dared&lt;br /&gt;
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to dare him. died wishing he’d&lt;br /&gt;
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amassed such revolutionary&lt;br /&gt;
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ire in virginia. died dreaming&lt;br /&gt;
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great britain was the enemy.&lt;br /&gt;
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''iv.  july 4th: last''&lt;br /&gt;
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''     but not least'' &lt;br /&gt;
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17-, 18-, 19-76 and still&lt;br /&gt;
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this celebration’s shamed&lt;br /&gt;
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with gunpowder and words&lt;br /&gt;
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that lie like martyrs in cold&lt;br /&gt;
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blood. africa’s descendents,&lt;br /&gt;
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planting here year after year&lt;br /&gt;
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the seeds of labor, sweating&lt;br /&gt;
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bullets in this nation’s warts,&lt;br /&gt;
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have harvested the rope,&lt;br /&gt;
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the rape, the ghetto, the cell,&lt;br /&gt;
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the fire, the flood, and the&lt;br /&gt;
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blame for you-name-it. so&lt;br /&gt;
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today black folks barbeque&lt;br /&gt;
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ribs and smother the echoes&lt;br /&gt;
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of billie’s strange song in&lt;br /&gt;
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sauces. drink gin. gladly&lt;br /&gt;
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holiday to heckle speeches&lt;br /&gt;
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on tv. pretend to parade.&lt;br /&gt;
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turn out in droves for distant&lt;br /&gt;
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detonations, chaos, controlled&lt;br /&gt;
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as always, but directed&lt;br /&gt;
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away from us tonight. stare&lt;br /&gt;
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into the mirror of the sky&lt;br /&gt;
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at our growing reflection,&lt;br /&gt;
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boggled by how america&lt;br /&gt;
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gawks at the passing pinpoints&lt;br /&gt;
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of flame, but overlooks the vast,&lt;br /&gt;
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ebony palm giving them shape.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Evie Shockley, an author, received a BA from Northwestern University, a JD from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Duke University in English literature. Shockley is also the author of many poetry collections, including the Half-Red Sea (2006) and the New Black (2011), and of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Creativity in African American Poetry (2011). In many anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook (2010), A Broken Thing: Contemporary Poets on the Line, her poetry and essays have been featured (2011), and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013).&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
This poem criticizes the segregation and slavery committed by white people against blacks since the era of colonialism.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Shockley, Evie. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55876/waiting-on-the-mayflower Waiting on the Mayflower]. Poetry Foundation.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/evie-shockley Evie Shockley Biography]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Sympathy&amp;diff=4602799</id>
		<title>Sympathy</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-02T08:19:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Sympathy is a beautiful poetry written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This poetry was published in 2004 through The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.  == Poetry == I know what...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Sympathy is a beautiful poetry written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This poetry was published in 2004 through The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And the river flows like a stream of glass;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know what the caged bird feels!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know why the caged bird beats his wing&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And they pulse again with a keener sting—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know why he beats his wing!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When he beats his bars and he would be free;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know why the caged bird sings!&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
The poet describes how the bird feels robbed of the pleasures of life because of this poem about the caged bird. This emotion makes him protest against it. A natural environment opens the poem. A bird begins to chirp and the river turns its way and the sun shines. The caged bird just feels underprivileged. He is led to protest by his sufferings and feelings of restrictions, but his protest goes in vain. He bashes himself helplessly at the bars and gets hurt. His wounds turn into scars, but liberty is not tasted by him. He chooses to sing for liberation after a relentless struggle. It is through the act of singing that the doors of heaven will be shaken by him. Therefore, he continues to sing and longs for the happier days of his life. The poem details the continuing attempts of the bird that does not lose hope.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
On June 27, 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar was born to slaves from Kentucky who were freed. He became one of the first influential black poets in American literature, and was known internationally in collections such as Majors and Minors (1895) and Lyrics of Lowly Life Lyrics for his dialectic verse (1896). The dialectic poems, however, constitute only a small portion of the canon of Dunbar, which is full of novels, short stories, essays, and several regular English poems. In its entirety, in turn-of-the-century America, the literary body of Dunbar is considered an outstanding reflection of Black life.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
The poem was composed by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a renowned African American poet. Sympathy is a literary work about slavery and liberation that is thought-provoking. It was published for the first time in 1899. The poem talks about brutal slavery, racial segregation, and social injustice against the African-American community practiced in American society. Dunbar stresses the value of liberty using the metaphor of a bird. Through the plea and struggle of a caged pigeon, he also identifies captivity. The main themes of this poem are hardship, racism, and social injustice. The caged bird does his hardest in the poem to win independence, but fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
While he is captivated, he longs to see the same freedom in his life when he sees his fellow birds playing with the wind. He bleeds, gets scars, for the sake of democracy, but nothing happens. Dunbar illustrates the never-ending misery and tragic condition of the African American people through the analogy of this little creature. Their wounds have become scars, unlike this bird. They are robbed of natural and civil rights, and even in normal life they are incarcerated. They stood up for their rights after several years. Sadly, their words were choked by the supreme powers. They have never lost hope, despite facing hardships.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46459/sympathy-56d22658afbc0 Dunbar, Paul Laurence].  2004. Sympathy. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://literarydevices.net/sympathy/ Sympathy Analysis.] Literary Device. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/sympathy-summary-analysis.html#.X_AnNNgzbtQ Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar: Summary and Analysis]. Bachelor and Master. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Riot: 60's</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-01T20:46:02Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;Riot: 60's poetry detailing the situation in the 60s when the riot occurred. The lighting: 100 watts. Newark, Detroit and New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Poem==&lt;br /&gt;
Our&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
YOUR FRIEND CHARLIE pawnshop&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
was a glorious blaze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I heard the flames lick&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
then eat the trays&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of zircons&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
mounted in red gold alloys&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Easter clothes and stolen furs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
burned in the attic&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
radios and teevees&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
crackled with static&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
plugged in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
only to a racial outlet&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Some&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
thought the FRIENDLY FINANCE FURNITURE CO.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
burned higher&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When a leopard print sofa with gold legs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(which makes into a bed)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
caught fire&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
an admiring groan from the waiting horde&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Absentee landlord&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
you got that shit”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lighting: a hundred Watts&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Detroit, Newark and New York&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Screeching nerves, exploding minds&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lives tied to a policeman’s whistle&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a welfare worker’s doorbell&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
finger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hospitality, southern-style&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
corn pone grits and you-all smile&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whole blocks novae&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
brand new stars&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
policemen caught in their&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
brand new cars&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Chugga chugga chigga&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
git me one nigga&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lootin’ n burnin’&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
he won’t git far&lt;br /&gt;
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Watermelons, summer ripe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
grey neck bones and boiling tripe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
supermarket roastin like the&lt;br /&gt;
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noon-day sun&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
national guard nervous with his shiny gun&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
goose the motor quicker&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
here’s my nigga picka&lt;br /&gt;
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shoot him in the belly&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
shoot him while he run&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
As in these race riots of the 60s, Angelou switches between different cases. From these protests to those in Ferguson or in Baltimore 50 years later, little has changed. Angelou sits with a smirk in this triumphant clash of prejudice, classism, and poor and oppressive classes, thus recording main attitudes. Setting the scene, we see bright and burning colors coming from a pawnshop in the first two stanzas. The focus of the &amp;quot;radios and teevees&amp;quot; shows how the people of the 60s were tuned into these activities, but since they were &amp;quot;crackled with static&amp;quot; one can also conclude that specific information was not obtained by these individuals.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The incidents are easily distorted by news stations as they unfold. Some may report that the &amp;quot;waiting horde&amp;quot; seems to be aloof and uncaring about the tragedy that is affecting their world. No one really seems worried about what the riots were really trying to fight for (as shown by the lack of details in the other four stanzas). In a sea of madness, the message is lost. Meanwhile, the great incidents of police violence that unfold and the unbearable stress created by survival in these horrific situations are occurrences that are overshadowed. As the whole area stands on the edge in fear of the next issue about to erupt in their neighborhood,' screeching nerves' are commonplace.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Angelou, Maya. [https://lyrics.lol/artist/15728-maya-angelou/lyrics/3845074-riot-60-s Riot: 60's]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://ayearofangelou.tumblr.com/post/129524848123/riot-60s A Year of Angelou: Riot: 60's.] Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=After_Zuko_(2019)&amp;diff=4576688</id>
		<title>After Zuko (2019)</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-01T20:32:19Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;== Poetry == '''For Piccolo'''  Little Black boy’s first Black male role model  is green. Broken, grumpy, hell-bent  on hurting someone, like his father. To be a child  is t...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
'''For Piccolo'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Little Black boy’s first Black male role model&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
is green. Broken, grumpy, hell-bent&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on hurting someone, like his father. To be a child&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
is to inherit sin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
still&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when there was no man to play dad&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
there was a man who would destroy the moon&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
just to let a boy sleep soundly. Sure, he made&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
chaos. But he made it in your name.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
redemption&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
be the solace every man wants to earn&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
without working for it. i see the moon&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and think of my father, guiltless being, who must&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
see it too. A boy learns man to mean&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
leaving&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a child to grow up in a forest. A Black boy dreams&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of a man who appears, after many seasons, with a new&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
soul, who says little, but touches your forehead soft&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and teaches you everything. A boy is waiting to find&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
man&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in someone. All my heroes were evil once&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but at least they returned in time for dinner.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Imagine that? All it takes to be a good man&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
is to come back.&lt;br /&gt;
----'''For Zuko'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I too have known fire. And yes,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I too have wondered if I come from&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a burnt people. A people who have always&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
been ablaze. I too have hated my own hands&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And yes, I too have been prince to a kingdom of folk&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and then dishonored them. I have worn a white mask.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I have cut my hair to look less like me. I too&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
have sought to be anything other than the ashes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of another man’s sin. I have tried to earn my existence&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in a nation that would not claim me. I have scorched&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the ones who care most. I have searched the countryside&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to find something I always had.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And yes, I too have been unworthy of my mother’s love.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And yes, I too have known the right thing to do&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and done otherwise. I too have been a refugee&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and a product of my tribe. Yes, I am still running.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I too am afraid of being a good man. And yes, I too&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
have been beaten by water until it felt like a baptism.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And yes, I too would burn the whole forest down&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
just to feel the warmth against my skin&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
Either a playwright who writes music or an author who writes plays, Dave Harris is. Or maybe just a West Philly poet, Idk Fam. His work was featured, among others, in the Huffington Post, Button Poetry, Upworthy, Yale Repertory Theater, UMASS Amherst.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
After Zuko is a poem from his book entitled Patricide, which mentions a character from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Zuko is from Fire Country, a place whose inhabitants are able to bend and manipulate fire in this fictional world. Harris wisely mentions the iconic fictional show in this clever piece about the difficulties of a black man to grapple with his identity and masculinity as a way to illustrate his struggle to be a black person in a world that freely accepts white people, but treats people of colour with contempt. Harris is a poet and playwright originally from West Philadelphia who graduated from Yale University.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Harris, Dave. 2019. [http://www.freezeraypoetry.com/dave-harris.html After Zuko]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# Singh, Chayelene. July 7 2020. [https://hivelife.com/powerful-poems-injustice-racial-discrimination/ 7 Powerful Poems About Injustice &amp;amp; Racial Discrimination]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Caged_Bird_(1983)&amp;diff=4576676</id>
		<title>Caged Bird (1983)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;The poem &amp;quot;Caged Bird&amp;quot; by Maya Angelou, first published in 1983 in the collection Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? A celebration of the strength and dignity of Black people. Angelou clearly evokes the agony and anger of one who is oppressed by comparing their misery with the carefree and deliberate indifference of one who is free, using a simple example of two birds, one free and one caged. In the title of her 1969 autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou first used the theme of the caged bird and originally took the illustration from the 1899 poem &amp;quot;Sympathy&amp;quot; by the black writer Paul Laurence Dunbar.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
A free bird leaps&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the back of the wind   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and floats downstream   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
till the current ends&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and dips his wing&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the orange sun rays&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and dares to claim the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But a bird that stalks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
down his narrow cage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
can seldom see through&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his bars of rage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his wings are clipped and   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his feet are tied&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so he opens his throat to sing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The caged bird sings   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with a fearful trill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of things unknown   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but longed for still   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his tune is heard   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the distant hill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
for the caged bird   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sings of freedom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The free bird thinks of another breeze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and he names the sky his own&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so he opens his throat to sing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The caged bird sings   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with a fearful trill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of things unknown   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but longed for still   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his tune is heard   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the distant hill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
for the caged bird   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sings of freedom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
The free bird flies around the waves of wind, feeling as if the sky belongs to it. However, in his jail, the caged bird can hardly move. It is disturbing. It clips its wings and binds its feet together. All it can do is sing of the things it needs and doesn't know, fearfully. It sings for its freedom and everyone can hear its music, even those who are far away. All the while, the free bird is concentrating on the wind, the sounds made by the trees, the words he's preparing to eat on the field. The speaker repeats, once again, that the birds sound like they own the sky. As the poet repeats the third stanza in its entirety, the poem ends with the caged bird singing once again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author==&lt;br /&gt;
Maya Angelou was best known for her 1969 novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman, an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist. In 2005 and 2009, Angelou won many honors during her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding category of literary work (nonfiction).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Caged Bird 'has strong themes packed with them. These include racial injustice, captivity/freedom, and happiness/sorrow. Via Angelou's portrayal of the two birds, one free and one caged, these themes are all wrapped together in 'Caged Egg'. For the Black community in America and around the world, the caged bird is an extended metaphor. Angelou refers to the experiences of millions of men, women and children since the dawn of time and the spectrum of coercive methods practiced by those in control, whether physically, psychologically or economically. Black men, women, and children see &amp;quot;through the... bars,&amp;quot; while in the sky the free bird whistles.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Angelou, Maya. 1983. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird Caged Bird]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou Maya Angelou's Biography]. February 28 2018. biography.com. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.enotes.com/topics/caged-bird#:~:text=In%20%E2%80%9CCaged%20Bird%2C%E2%80%9D,feet%20tied%20and%20wings%20clipped. Caged Bird by Maya Angelou]. Retrievd January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://poemanalysis.com/maya-angelou/caged-bird/#Themes_inCaged_Bird Caged Bird by Maya Angelou]. Retrievd January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=The_House_-_Warsan_Shire&amp;diff=4576655</id>
		<title>The House - Warsan Shire</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Home is written by Warsan Shire. She receives Brunei University African Poetry Prize for this poetry.  == Poetry ==   ''i''   Mother says there are locked rooms inside all wom...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Home is written by Warsan Shire. She receives Brunei University African Poetry Prize for this poetry.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Poetry == &lt;br /&gt;
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''i''&lt;br /&gt;
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Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust,&lt;br /&gt;
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bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometimes the men - they come with keys,&lt;br /&gt;
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and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers.&lt;br /&gt;
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''ii''&lt;br /&gt;
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''Nin soo joog laga waayo, soo jiifso aa laga helaa,''&lt;br /&gt;
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I said ''Stop'', I said ''No'' and he did not listen.&lt;br /&gt;
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''iii''&lt;br /&gt;
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Perhaps she has a plan, perhaps she takes him back to hers&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
only for him to wake up hours later in a bathtub full of ice,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with a dry mouth, looking down at his new, neat procedure.&lt;br /&gt;
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''iv''&lt;br /&gt;
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I point to my body and say ''Oh this old thing? No, I just slipped it on.''&lt;br /&gt;
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''v''&lt;br /&gt;
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''Are you going to eat that?'' I say to my mother, pointing to my father who is lying on the dining room table, his mouth stuffed with a red apple.&lt;br /&gt;
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''vi''&lt;br /&gt;
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The bigger my body is, the more locked rooms there are, the more men come with keys. Anwar didn’t push it all the way in, I still think about what he could have opened up inside of me. Basil came and hesitated at the door for three years. Johnny with the blue eyes came with a bag of tools he had used on other women: one hairpin, a bottle of bleach, a switchblade and a jar of Vaseline. Yusuf called out God’s name through the keyhole and no one answered. Some begged, some climbed the side of my body looking for a window, some said they were on their way and did not come.&lt;br /&gt;
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''vii''&lt;br /&gt;
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''Show us on the doll where you were touched'', they said.&lt;br /&gt;
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I said ''I don’t look like a doll, I look like a house.''&lt;br /&gt;
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They said ''Show us on the house.''&lt;br /&gt;
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Like this: two fingers in the jam jar&lt;br /&gt;
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Like this: an elbow in the bathwater&lt;br /&gt;
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Like this: a hand in the drawer.&lt;br /&gt;
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''viii''&lt;br /&gt;
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I should tell you about my first love who found a trapdoor under my left breast nine years ago, fell in and hasn’t been seen since. Every&lt;br /&gt;
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now and then I feel something crawling up my thigh. He should make himself known, I’d probably let him out. I hope he hasn’t&lt;br /&gt;
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bumped in to the others, the missing boys from small towns, with pleasant mothers, who did bad things and got lost in the maze of&lt;br /&gt;
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my hair. I treat them well enough, a slice of bread, if they’re lucky a piece of fruit. Except for Johnny with the blue eyes, who picked my locks and crawled in. Silly boy, chained to the basement of my fears, I play music to drown him out.&lt;br /&gt;
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''ix''&lt;br /&gt;
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Knock knock.&lt;br /&gt;
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Who’s there?&lt;br /&gt;
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No one.&lt;br /&gt;
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''x''&lt;br /&gt;
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At parties I point to my body and say ''This is where love comes to die. Welcome, come in, make yourself at home''. Everyone laughs, they think I’m joking.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
This poetry is about the life of the refugee.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
In 2014, Shire was the new Young Poet Laureate of London, the first in the world. Born in Kenya to Somali parents, Shire grew up in London, where she always felt like an outsider, and embodies the kind of shape-shifting, culture-juggling spirit that lurks in most people who are unable to trace their ancestors to the founding fathers of their country, or whose ancestors look nothing like those fathers. Shire conjures up a new vocabulary for belonging and alienation in the limbo. In an interview, what she described as the &amp;quot;surrealism of everyday immigrant life,&amp;quot; one day you're in your country, having fun, drinking mango juice, and the next day you're in the London Underground and your kids talk to you in a language that you don't understand. &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
After visiting a shelter for Somali refugees in London, Shire was inspired to write' Home'. Her poetry grapples with the harsh realities of life as a refugee, someone who, mostly because of conflict, has to leave his or her home and way of life in order to survive. Shire does not hesitate to record the true essence of becoming a refugee. She writes that, unless the water is better than the ground, no one puts their children in a boat, and refers to the traumatic and dehumanizing impact of leaving one's homeland and finding oneself in an unfriendly, foreign location. The poem, which is political to its heart, is dominated by a sense of dislocation and a lack of belonging. It is an urgent reminder of the reasons why refugees do what they feel they have to do to survive and secure their families, inspired by the horrific individual histories that formed part of the European refugee crisis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Shire, Warsan. 2014. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90733/the-house-57daba5625f32 Home]. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# Chandra, Sanya. August 2 2020. [https://www.e-ir.info/2020/08/02/understanding-refugees-through-home-by-warsan-shire/ Understanding Refugees Through ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>You're Not Black</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Author: Amy Saunders  A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.  == Poetry == I sit with them at lunch  Fried chicken on my plate  I eat with a knife an...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Author: Amy Saunders&lt;br /&gt;
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A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
I sit with them at lunch&lt;br /&gt;
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Fried chicken on my plate&lt;br /&gt;
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I eat with a knife and fork&lt;br /&gt;
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“You’re not black, if you don’t use your hands to eat”&lt;br /&gt;
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Yet I know that hands tied up the strange fruit on the trees in the south&lt;br /&gt;
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''The fruit for the crows to pluck''&lt;br /&gt;
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''For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck''&lt;br /&gt;
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''For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop*''&lt;br /&gt;
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I don’t recognise the Caribbean music, or the Afrobeats&lt;br /&gt;
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I only know of Liszt, Chopin and Ludovico Einaudi&lt;br /&gt;
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Whose names you’ve probably never heard&lt;br /&gt;
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“You’re not black, if you don’t know this beat”&lt;br /&gt;
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Yet, I am familiar with the beat of pounding&lt;br /&gt;
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Pounding of sugar cane, the whipping of backs&lt;br /&gt;
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The cries and screams of my ancestors&lt;br /&gt;
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Ring loud in my head centuries later&lt;br /&gt;
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So how dare you? How dare you put me down!&lt;br /&gt;
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Question my ethnicity, I’m still a shade of brown&lt;br /&gt;
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And I’m sorry if I don’t live up to your ‘black norms’&lt;br /&gt;
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But I live in a world with segregated dorms&lt;br /&gt;
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Society crushes me, tells me I’m ugly&lt;br /&gt;
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But copies my features, they must think it’s funny&lt;br /&gt;
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I’m not trying to in any way be mean&lt;br /&gt;
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But I live in a society covered in white sheen&lt;br /&gt;
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''Sorry to Bother You'', but I should ''Get Out''&lt;br /&gt;
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’Cause ''The Hate U Give'' leaves me with no doubt&lt;br /&gt;
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That I am not ''The Help'', the help that you need&lt;br /&gt;
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But the ''Hidden Figures'' are clear to see&lt;br /&gt;
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That I should stop trying to be ‘Black’ and just try to be&lt;br /&gt;
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Me&lt;br /&gt;
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''*from ‘Strange Fruit’ by Abel Meeropol''&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
In this poem, it is mentioned that there are several stereotypes that are labeled for black people. Although according to the author, the things that are inherent for black people are actually done by white people. In short, the author wants to give the impression that black people and white people are equal.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
Amy Saunders, a top 15 recipient of the 2019 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, was just 13 when she wrote You're Not Black, a poem that conveys the internal struggle of becoming a black person who feels like they're looking in from the outside of their society. Amy uses extracts from a song by Billie Holiday named 'Strange Fruit' to question the normalized conceptions of what it means to be black. It was originally written to protest against lynchings in America by Abel Meeropol in 1939. She also makes clever references to famous, thought-provoking racism movies, such as Get Out, The Aid, and Hidden Figures, all of which emotionally touch on the injustice generation after generation faced by people of color.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Singh, Chayelene. July 7 2020. [https://hivelife.com/powerful-poems-injustice-racial-discrimination/ 7 Powerful Poems About Injustice &amp;amp; Racial Discrimination]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://amysaundersauthor.com/about/ Saunders, Amy]. [https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/youre-not-black/ You're Not Black]. Retrieved January 1 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Riot</title>
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Author: Gwendolyn Brooks&lt;br /&gt;
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Published: 1994&lt;br /&gt;
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==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
              ''A riot is the language of the unheard.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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''             '' —Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;
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John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe, &lt;br /&gt;
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all whitebluerose below his golden hair, &lt;br /&gt;
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wrapped richly in right linen and right wool, &lt;br /&gt;
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almost forgot his Jaguar and Lake Bluff; &lt;br /&gt;
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almost forgot Grandtully (which is The &lt;br /&gt;
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Best Thing That Ever Happened To Scotch); almost &lt;br /&gt;
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forgot the sculpture at the Richard Gray &lt;br /&gt;
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and Distelheim; the kidney pie at Maxim’s, &lt;br /&gt;
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the Grenadine de Boeuf at Maison Henri. &lt;br /&gt;
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Because the “Negroes” were coming down the street. &lt;br /&gt;
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Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty &lt;br /&gt;
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(not like Two Dainty Negroes in Winnetka) &lt;br /&gt;
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and they were coming toward him in rough ranks. &lt;br /&gt;
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In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud. &lt;br /&gt;
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And not detainable. And not discreet. &lt;br /&gt;
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Gross. Gross. “Que tu es grossier!” John Cabot &lt;br /&gt;
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itched instantly beneath the nourished white &lt;br /&gt;
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that told his story of glory to the World. &lt;br /&gt;
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“Don’t let It touch me! the blackness! Lord!” he&lt;br /&gt;
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whispered to any handy angel in the sky. &lt;br /&gt;
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But, in a thrilling announcement, on It drove &lt;br /&gt;
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and breathed on him: and touched him. In that breath &lt;br /&gt;
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the fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili, &lt;br /&gt;
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malign, mocked John. And, in terrific touch, old &lt;br /&gt;
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averted doubt jerked forward decently, &lt;br /&gt;
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cried, “Cabot! John! You are a desperate man, &lt;br /&gt;
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and the desperate die expensively today.” &lt;br /&gt;
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John Cabot went down in the smoke and fire &lt;br /&gt;
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and broken glass and blood, and he cried “Lord! &lt;br /&gt;
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Forgive these nigguhs that know not what they do.”&lt;br /&gt;
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THE THIRD SERMON ON THE WARPLAND&lt;br /&gt;
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'''               '''Phoenix &lt;br /&gt;
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                “In Egyptian mythology, a bird &lt;br /&gt;
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                which lived for five hundred &lt;br /&gt;
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                years and then consumed itself &lt;br /&gt;
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                in fire, rising renewed from the ashes.” &lt;br /&gt;
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''                —webster''&lt;br /&gt;
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The earth is a beautiful place. &lt;br /&gt;
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Watermirrors and things to be reflected. &lt;br /&gt;
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Goldenrod across the little lagoon. &lt;br /&gt;
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The Black Philosopher says &lt;br /&gt;
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“Our chains are in the keep of the Keeper &lt;br /&gt;
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in a labeled cabinet &lt;br /&gt;
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on the second shelf by the cookies, &lt;br /&gt;
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sonatas, the arabesques. . . . &lt;br /&gt;
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There’s a rattle, sometimes. &lt;br /&gt;
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You do not hear it who mind only &lt;br /&gt;
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cookies and crunch them. &lt;br /&gt;
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You do not hear the remarkable music—‘A &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Death Song For You Before You Die.’ &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you could hear it &lt;br /&gt;
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you would make music too. &lt;br /&gt;
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The ''black''blues.” &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
  West Madison Street. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In “Jessie’s Kitchen” &lt;br /&gt;
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nobody’s eating Jessie’s Perfect Food. &lt;br /&gt;
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Crazy flowers &lt;br /&gt;
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cry up across the sky, spreading &lt;br /&gt;
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and hissing '''This is''' &lt;br /&gt;
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'''it.''' &lt;br /&gt;
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The young men run. &lt;br /&gt;
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They will not steal Bing Crosby but will steal &lt;br /&gt;
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Melvin Van Peebles who made Lillie &lt;br /&gt;
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a thing of Zampoughi a thing of red wiggles and trebles &lt;br /&gt;
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(and I know there are twenty wire stalks sticking out of her &lt;br /&gt;
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     head &lt;br /&gt;
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as her underfed haunches jerk jazz.) &lt;br /&gt;
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A clean riot is not one in which little rioters &lt;br /&gt;
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long-stomped, long-straddled, BEANLESS &lt;br /&gt;
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but knowing no Why &lt;br /&gt;
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go steal in hell &lt;br /&gt;
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a radio, sit to hear James Brown &lt;br /&gt;
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and Mingus, Young-Holt, Coleman, John on V.O.N. &lt;br /&gt;
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and sun themselves in Sin. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, what &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
is going on &lt;br /&gt;
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is going on. &lt;br /&gt;
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Fire. &lt;br /&gt;
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That is their way of lighting candles in the darkness. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A White Philosopher said &lt;br /&gt;
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‘It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.’ &lt;br /&gt;
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                    These candles curse— &lt;br /&gt;
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inverting the deeps of the darkness. &lt;br /&gt;
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GUARD HERE, GUNS LOADED. &lt;br /&gt;
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The young men run. &lt;br /&gt;
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The children in ritual chatter &lt;br /&gt;
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scatter upon &lt;br /&gt;
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their Own and old geography. &lt;br /&gt;
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The Law comes sirening across the town. &lt;br /&gt;
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A woman is dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Motherwoman. &lt;br /&gt;
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She lies among the boxes &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(that held the haughty hats, the Polish sausages) &lt;br /&gt;
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in newish, thorough, firm virginity &lt;br /&gt;
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as rich as fudge is if you’ve had five pieces. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not again shall she &lt;br /&gt;
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partake of steak &lt;br /&gt;
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on Christmas mornings, nor of nighttime &lt;br /&gt;
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chicken and wine at Val Gray Ward’s &lt;br /&gt;
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nor say &lt;br /&gt;
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of Mr. Beetley, Exit Jones, Junk Smith &lt;br /&gt;
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nor neat New-baby Williams (man-to-many) &lt;br /&gt;
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“He treat me right.” &lt;br /&gt;
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That was a gut gal. &lt;br /&gt;
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“We’ll do an us!” yells Yancey, a twittering twelve. &lt;br /&gt;
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“Instead of your deathintheafternoon, &lt;br /&gt;
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kill ’em, bull! &lt;br /&gt;
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kill ’em, bull!” &lt;br /&gt;
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The Black Philosopher blares &lt;br /&gt;
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“I tell you, '''exhaustive''' black integrity &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
would assure a blackless Amrica. . . .” &lt;br /&gt;
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Nine die, Sun-Times will tell &lt;br /&gt;
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and will tell too &lt;br /&gt;
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in small black-bordered oblongs '''“Rumor? check it''' &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''at 744-4111.”''' &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A Poem to Peanut. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Coooooool!” purrs Peanut. Peanut is &lt;br /&gt;
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Richard—a Ranger and a gentleman. &lt;br /&gt;
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A Signature. A Herald. And a Span. &lt;br /&gt;
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This Peanut will not let his men explode. &lt;br /&gt;
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And Rico will not. &lt;br /&gt;
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Neither will Sengali. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nor Bop nor Jeff, Geronimo nor Lover. &lt;br /&gt;
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These merely peer and purr, &lt;br /&gt;
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and pass the Passion over. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Disciples stir &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and thousandfold confer &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with ranging Rangermen; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
mutual in their “Yeah!— &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
this AIN’T all upinheah!” &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“But WHY do These People offend '''themselves'''?” say they &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
who say also “It’s time. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It’s time to help &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These People.” &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lies are told and legends made. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Phoenix rises unafraid. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Black Philosopher will remember: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“There they came to life and exulted, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the hurt mute. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then is was over. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The dust, as they say, settled.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
AN ASPECT OF LOVE, ALIVE IN THE ICE AND FIRE&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                                                                              LaBohem Brown&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a package of minutes there is this We.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
How beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Merry foreigners in our morning,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
we laugh, we touch each other, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
are responsible props and posts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A physical light is in the room.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the world is at the window&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
we cannot wonder very long.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You rise. Although&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
genial, you are in yourself again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I observe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
your direct and respectable stride.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You are direct and self-accepting as a lion&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in Afrikan velvet. You are level, lean,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
remote.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There is a moment in Camaraderie&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when interruption is not to be understood.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I cannot bear an interruption.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is the shining joy;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the time of not-to-end.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On the street we smile.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We go&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in different directions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
down the imperturbable street.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
The poem itself is divided into three parts: &amp;quot;Riot,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The Third Sermon on the Warpland,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;An Aspect of Love, Alice in the Ice and Fire.&amp;quot; The first part tells the tale of one &amp;quot;John Cabot,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;all whitebluerose below his golden hair.&amp;quot; The riot repels him, coming to kill him. At the end, he appears to die: &amp;quot;John Cabot went down in the smoke and fire/ &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and broken glass and blood.&amp;quot; This is a history of revision, and perhaps people would even say aspirational. Though Eleven people died in the riots, they were all black. The following sermon is, perhaps, subtitled &amp;quot;Phoenix&amp;quot; (the typography requires interpretation). &amp;quot;With the pastoral lyrics, it opens: &amp;quot;The earth is a beautiful place. / Watermirrors and stuff to be seen. / Goldenrod around the tiny lagoon.&amp;quot; But this section's strength is how it uses collage.&amp;quot; In this short novel, this poem, the longest, juxtaposes various thoughts about riots from figures such as a child, newspaper reports, &amp;quot;Black Philosopher,&amp;quot; among others, &amp;quot;White Philosopher,&amp;quot; And then the poem ends with a love poem that is resolved in a final &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; with a lover invoking a beloved: &amp;quot;We go / in different directions / down the imperturbable street.&amp;quot; This is a great poem. This is a great poem. That's what people think they should claim. For those who like it, it is creative and experimental. For those who like that, it is' political'. And for those who like that, it is built with a deliberate aesthetic.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author==&lt;br /&gt;
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of American poetry's most highly known, influential, and widely read 20th-century poets. With the distinction of becoming the first Black author to receive the Pulitzer Prize, she was a much-honored poet, also in her lifetime. She was also a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, the first Black woman to hold that position, and a State of Illinois poet laureate. Many of Brooks' works, especially those from the 1960s, show political awareness.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Riot begins with the &amp;quot;A riot is the language of the unheard.-MLK&amp;quot; in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem. The quotation justifies what Brooks feels and she believes that violence is the solution to what blacks want. This quote was given in response to the race riots that were going on in the U.S. By describing a man who drives fancy cars, wears fine linen, and often drinks the finest liquor and eats expensive foods, she then begins the poem. This is to be a greedy person later on. &amp;quot;He says in the poem, &amp;quot;Gross. Gross. Que tu es grossier.&amp;quot; Then he says, &amp;quot;Don't let blackness affect me! Lord!&amp;quot; This points out that he's racist against blacks and he's a very corrupt man. He cries &amp;quot; Lord! Forgive these nigguhs that know not what they do.&amp;quot; Then John Cabot was thrown into the fire to burn to death, he still didn't know he was at fault even though staring death into his eyes, and even with the riots. Brooks is of the view that money is power and power corrupts. Since he was lucky in life, he did not see what was happening.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Brooks, Gwendolyn. 1994. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58377/riot-56d23cb395a01 Riot]. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Poetry Foundation].&lt;br /&gt;
# Hampton, Darrius. [https://dhamptonenglish5th.weebly.com/black-arts.html#:~:text=Poetry%20Analysis%3A%20In%20Gwendolyn%20Brooks,to%20get%20what%20blacks%20want.&amp;amp;text=Brooks%20believes%20that%20money%20is%20power%20and%20that%20power%20corrupts. Analysis of Gwendelyn Brooks' Riot].&lt;br /&gt;
# Bernes, Jasper. Clover, Joshua, and Spahr, Juliana. 2014. [https://jacket2.org/commentary/gwendolyn-brookss-riot-and-opt-out Gwendolyn Brooks's 'Riot' and the opt out]. Kelly Writers House.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:The poster of the poetry.jpg</title>
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&lt;div&gt;the poster of RIot by Gwendoly Brooks&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Caged Bird (1983)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Author: Maya Angelou  == Poetry == A free bird leaps  on the back of the wind     and floats downstream     till the current ends  and dips his wing  in the orange sun rays...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Author: Maya Angelou&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
A free bird leaps&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the back of the wind   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and floats downstream   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
till the current ends&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and dips his wing&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the orange sun rays&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and dares to claim the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But a bird that stalks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
down his narrow cage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
can seldom see through&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his bars of rage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his wings are clipped and   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his feet are tied&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so he opens his throat to sing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The caged bird sings   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with a fearful trill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of things unknown   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but longed for still   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his tune is heard   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the distant hill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
for the caged bird   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sings of freedom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The free bird thinks of another breeze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and he names the sky his own&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so he opens his throat to sing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The caged bird sings   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with a fearful trill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of things unknown   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but longed for still   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his tune is heard   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on the distant hill   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
for the caged bird   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sings of freedom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Tradition (2015)</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-27T17:15:08Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Author: Jericho Brown  == Poetry == ''Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium.'' We thought  Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning  Names in heat, in elements classical  Philo...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Author: Jericho Brown&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
''Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium.'' We thought&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Names in heat, in elements classical&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Philosophers said could change us. ''Star Gazer.'' &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''Foxglove.'' Summer seemed to bloom against the will&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Of the sun, which news reports claimed flamed hotter&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On this planet than when our dead fathers&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Wiped sweat from their necks. ''Cosmos. Baby’s Breath.'' &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Men like me and my brothers filmed what we&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Planted for proof we existed before&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Too late, sped the video to see blossoms&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Brought in seconds, colors you expect in poems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Where the world ends, everything cut down.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''John Crawford. Eric Garner. Mike Brown.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Riot</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Author: Gwendolyn Brooks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
''A riot is the language of the unheard.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
—martin luther king&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
all whitebluerose below his golden hair,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wrapped richly in right linen and right wool,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
almost forgot his Jaguar and Lake Bluff;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
almost forgot Grandtully (which is The&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Best Thing That Ever Happened To Scotch); almost&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
forgot the sculpture at the Richard Gray&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and Distelheim; the kidney pie at Maxim’s,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the Grenadine de Boeuf at Maison Henri.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the Negroes were coming down the street.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(not like Two Dainty Negroes in Winnetka)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and they were coming toward him in rough ranks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And not detainable. And not discreet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gross. Gross. “''Que tu es grossier!''” John Cabot&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
itched instantly beneath the nourished white&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
that told his story of glory to the World.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Don’t let It touch me! the blackness! Lord!” he whispered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to any handy angel in the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But, in a thrilling announcement, on It drove&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and breathed on him: and touched him. In that breath&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
malign, mocked John. And, in terrific touch, old&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
averted doubt jerked forward decently,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
cried, “Cabot! John! You are a desperate man,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the desperate die expensively today.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
John Cabot went down in the smoke and fire&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and broken glass and blood, and he cried “Lord!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Forgive these nigguhs that know not what they do.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Riot</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-27T17:10:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Author:  == Poetry == ''A riot is the language of the unheard.''  —martin luther king  John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe,  all whitebluerose below his golden hair,...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Author:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
''A riot is the language of the unheard.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
—martin luther king&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
all whitebluerose below his golden hair,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wrapped richly in right linen and right wool,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
almost forgot his Jaguar and Lake Bluff;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
almost forgot Grandtully (which is The&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Best Thing That Ever Happened To Scotch); almost&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
forgot the sculpture at the Richard Gray&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and Distelheim; the kidney pie at Maxim’s,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the Grenadine de Boeuf at Maison Henri.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the Negroes were coming down the street.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(not like Two Dainty Negroes in Winnetka)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and they were coming toward him in rough ranks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And not detainable. And not discreet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gross. Gross. “''Que tu es grossier!''” John Cabot&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
itched instantly beneath the nourished white&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
that told his story of glory to the World.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Don’t let It touch me! the blackness! Lord!” he whispered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to any handy angel in the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But, in a thrilling announcement, on It drove&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and breathed on him: and touched him. In that breath&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
malign, mocked John. And, in terrific touch, old&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
averted doubt jerked forward decently,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
cried, “Cabot! John! You are a desperate man,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and the desperate die expensively today.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
John Cabot went down in the smoke and fire&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and broken glass and blood, and he cried “Lord!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Forgive these nigguhs that know not what they do.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Rosa (1998)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Originally, the title poem of On the Bus with Rosa Parks was published in 1998 in The Georgia Review, but later appeared among the collections of Dove's poems the following year. The title 'On the Rose Parks Bus' derived from the experience of 1995 when Rita Dove and her daughter, Aviva, boarded a bus at a convention in Virginia. Aviva leaned over to her mother and whispered, &amp;quot;Hey, we're on the bus with Rosa Parks,&amp;quot; a phrase that haunted Dove as &amp;quot;a meditation on history and history&amp;quot; and the individual.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
How she sat there,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the time right inside a place&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so wrong it was ready.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That trim name with&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its dream of a bench&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to rest on. Her sensible coat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Doing nothing was the doing:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the clean flame of her gaze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
carved by a camera flash.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
How she stood up&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when they bent down to retrieve&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her purse. That courtesy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
The poem talks of Parks without mentioning it by name (except for in the title). Dove refers to the act that Rosa Parks is best known for sitting in front of a bus in the &amp;quot;white&amp;quot; portion. She &amp;quot;stopped up&amp;quot; against segregation, injustice, and bigotry by sitting down and doing &amp;quot;nothing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;On the Rosa Parks Bus&amp;quot; is one of several pieces of her book that gives voice to young black women who spoke out against the patriarchal political system during the Civil Rights movement. The following passage is taken to form &amp;quot;The Act,&amp;quot; and depicts a young woman speaking out against racial cruelty:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then all she's got to do is&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sit there, quiet, till&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the next moment finds her - and only then&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
can she open her mouth to ask&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Why do you push us around?”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his answer: “I don't know but the law is the law and you&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
are under arrest.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This particular poem holds a powerful message, and the poetic voice speaks directly to the reader. It also shows concern for those who were exposed to racist acts in the 1960s. Dove is composing this poem as though it were a prose. It is well implemented and uses dialog and vocabulary that are synonymous with daily conversation, but in this context it conveys important significance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The use of young black, female voices in her poetry can be traced back to Dove's own life experiences. Dove grew up in a time when blacks' rights were violated, neglected, and even exploited. Her poems are not only thoughts and observations, but also reflections of her own actions and feelings in such tough times.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Dove, Rita. 1999. [https://poetryarchive.org/poem/rosa/ On the Bus with Rosa Parks] .W W Norton.&lt;br /&gt;
#Dela Cruz, Christian. [https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/167837/Review%20On%20The%20Bus%20with%20Rosa%20Parks.pdf Voice From the Gasp]. University of Minnesota&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Rosa (1998)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;Originally, the title poem of On the Bus with Rosa Parks was published in 1998 in The Georgia Review, but later appeared among the collections of Dove's poems the following ye...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Originally, the title poem of On the Bus with Rosa Parks was published in 1998 in The Georgia Review, but later appeared among the collections of Dove's poems the following year. The title 'On the Rose Parks Bus' derived from the experience of 1995 when Rita Dove and her daughter, Aviva, boarded a bus at a convention in Virginia. Aviva leaned over to her mother and whispered, &amp;quot;Hey, we're on the bus with Rosa Parks,&amp;quot; a phrase that haunted Dove as &amp;quot;a meditation on history and history&amp;quot; and the individual.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
How she sat there,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the time right inside a place&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so wrong it was ready.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That trim name with&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its dream of a bench&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to rest on. Her sensible coat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Doing nothing was the doing:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the clean flame of her gaze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
carved by a camera flash.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
How she stood up&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when they bent down to retrieve&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her purse. That courtesy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
The poem talks of Parks without mentioning it by name (except for in the title). Dove refers to the act that Rosa Parks is best known for sitting in front of a bus in the &amp;quot;white&amp;quot; portion. She &amp;quot;stopped up&amp;quot; against segregation, injustice, and bigotry by sitting down and doing &amp;quot;nothing.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;On the Rosa Parks Bus&amp;quot; is one of several pieces of her book that gives voice to young black women who spoke out against the patriarchal political system during the Civil Rights movement. The following passage is taken to form &amp;quot;The Act,&amp;quot; and depicts a young woman speaking out against racial cruelty:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then all she's got to do is&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sit there, quiet, till&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the next moment finds her - and only then&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
can she open her mouth to ask&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Why do you push us around?”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and his answer: “I don't know but the law is the law and you&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
are under arrest.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This particular poem holds a powerful message, and the poetic voice speaks directly to the reader. It also shows concern for those who were exposed to racist acts in the 1960s. Dove is composing this poem as though it were a prose. It is well implemented and uses dialog and vocabulary that are synonymous with daily conversation, but in this context it conveys important significance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The use of young black, female voices in her poetry can be traced back to Dove's own life experiences. Dove grew up in a time when blacks' rights were violated, neglected, and even exploited. Her poems are not only thoughts and observations, but also reflections of her own actions and feelings in such tough times.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Dove, Rita. 1999. [https://poetryarchive.org/poem/rosa/ On the Bus with Rosa Parks] .W W Norton.&lt;br /&gt;
# Dela Cruz, Christian. [https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/167837/Review%20On%20The%20Bus%20with%20Rosa%20Parks.pdf Voice From the Gasp]. University of Minnesota&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[(Category: Black Racism in Literature)]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Afterimages (1997)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;A young African American boy's violent murder sticks to Audre Lorde and inspires her to compose an intense poem entitled &amp;quot;Afterimages.&amp;quot; The boy's image, Emmett till, is forever etched in the brain of Audre Lorde (Lorde 48). Not only with what happens to Emmett Till, but even with the views of society as a whole, her poem clearly expresses how distressed she is.The theme of &amp;quot;Afterimages&amp;quot; by Audre Lorde is that traumatic experiences can represent the attitudes of members of a society and can have a profound effect on the lives of young people as well.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The poem by Audre Lorde shows the reader the persistence during the early twentieth century of prejudice and injustice. The poet describes Emmett Till, an African American boy, being brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman.This clearly reflects how many white people during Audre Lorde's early life felt about African Americans. Audre Lorde cites Jackson, Mississippi, as the location of her poem (Lorde 47). For contemporary readers, since it is common knowledge, this is another straightforward way for the poet to respond to social injustice and people's attitudes.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry==&lt;br /&gt;
   I&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However the image enters&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its force remains within&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wild for life, relentless and acquisitive   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
learning to survive&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
where there is no food&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes are always hungry&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and remembering&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
however the image enters&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its force remains.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A white woman stands bereft and empty&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a black boy hacked into a murderous lesson   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
recalled in me forever&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
etched into my visions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
food for dragonfish that learn&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to live upon whatever they must eat&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fused images beneath my pain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   II&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Pearl River floods through the streets of Jackson   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A Mississippi summer televised.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Trapped houses kneel like sinners in the rain&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a white woman climbs from her roof to a passing boat   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her fingers tarry for a moment on the chimney   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
now awash&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
tearless and no longer young, she holds   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a tattered baby's blanket in her arms.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a microphone&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
thrust up against her flat bewildered words&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
         “we jest come from the bank yestiddy   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  borrowing money to pay the income tax   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  now everything's gone. I never knew   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  it could be so hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Despair weighs down her voice like Pearl River mud   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
caked around the edges&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her pale eyes scanning the camera for help or explanation&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
unanswered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
she shifts her search across the watered street, dry-eyed   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  “hard, but not this hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Two tow-headed children hurl themselves against her   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
hanging upon her coat like mirrors&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
until a man with ham-like hands pulls her aside   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
snarling “She ain't got nothing more to say!”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and that lie hangs in his mouth&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a shred of rotting meat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   III&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I inherited Jackson, Mississippi.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For my majority it gave me Emmett Till   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his 15 years puffed out like bruises   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on plump boy-cheeks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his only Mississippi summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistling a 21 gun salute to Dixie&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as a white girl passed him in the street   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and he was baptized my son forever   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the midnight waters of the Pearl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His broken body is the afterimage of my 21st year&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when I walked through a northern summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes averted&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
from each corner's photographies   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
newspapers protest posters magazines   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Police Story, Confidential, True   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the avid insistence of detail&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
pretending insight or information&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the length of gash across the dead boy's loins&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his grieving mother's lamentation   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the severed lips, how many burns   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his gouged out eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sewed shut upon the screaming covers   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
louder than life&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
all over&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the veiled warning, the secret relish   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of a black child's mutilated body   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fingered by street-corner eyes   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
bruise upon livid bruise&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and wherever I looked that summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I learned to be at home with children's blood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with savored violence&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with pictures of black broken flesh   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
used, crumpled, and discarded   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lying amid the sidewalk refuse   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a raped woman's face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A black boy from Chicago&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistled on the streets of Jackson, Mississippi&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
testing what he'd been taught was a manly thing to do&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his teachers&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ripped his eyes out his sex his tongue&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and flung him to the Pearl weighted with stone&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the name of white womanhood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
they took their aroused honor&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
back to Jackson&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and celebrated in a whorehouse&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the double ritual of white manhood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   IV&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;“If earth and air and water do not judge them who are&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;     we to refuse a crust of bread?”&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emmett Till rides the crest of the Pearl, whistling&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
24 years his ghost lay like the shade of a raped woman   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and a white girl has grown older in costly honor   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(what did she pay to never know its price?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
now the Pearl River speaks its muddy judgment   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and I can withhold my pity and my bread.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
           “Hard, but not this hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Her face is flat with resignation and despair   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with ancient and familiar sorrows&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman surveying her crumpled future&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as the white girl besmirched by Emmett's whistle   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
never allowed her own tongue&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
without power or conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
unvoiced&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
she stands adrift in the ruins of her honor   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and a man with an executioner's face&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
pulls her away.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Within my eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the flickering afterimages of a nightmare rain&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman wrings her hands&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
beneath the weight of agonies remembered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I wade through summer ghosts   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
betrayed by vision&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
hers and my own&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
becoming dragonfish to survive   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the horrors we are living&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with tortured lungs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
adapting to breathe blood.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A woman measures her life's damage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes are caves, chunks of etched rock&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
tied to the ghost of a black boy   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistling&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
crying and frightened&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her tow-headed children cluster   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like little mirrors of despair   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
their father's hands upon them   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and soundlessly&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman begins to weep.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
Audre Lorde's &amp;quot;Afterimages&amp;quot; is a nuanced, multi-layer poem that reflects the ongoing pain of one of the most violent incidents in the civil rights struggle—the assassination of Emmett Till. This 14-year-old black boy was violently beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta in 1955 for reportedly whistling wolf at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author==&lt;br /&gt;
Born in New York City on February 18, 1934, Audre Geraldine Lorde went on to become a leading African American poet and essayist who gave voice to race, gender and sexuality issues. Lorde's passion for poetry started at a young age, and as a teenager, she began writing. She was attending Hunter College, working through school to support herself. She went on to get a master's degree in library science from Columbia University in 1961, after graduating in 1959.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Audre Lorde attended Hunter College and Columbia University and, before writing her first volume of poetry, First Towns, in 1968, she was a librarian for many years. More popular collections followed, including The Black Unicorn and From a Land Where Other People Live (1973) (1978). The Cancer Journals (1980) and A Burst of Light were also memoirs written by Lorde (1988).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
In &amp;quot;Afterimages,&amp;quot; Lorde aims not only to express her rage and pain, but also to condemn a dominant visual economy that amplifies the terrorizing effects of racial and gender-based violations. The media's argument of &amp;quot;Insight or Information&amp;quot; could hardly disguise the &amp;quot;secret relish&amp;quot; with which the mass audience consumed photographs of Till's body along with narratives of his murder. The journalistic cliché merely sanitized and disapproved of the way the narratives were sexualized and the photographs &amp;quot;fingered by the eyes of the street.&amp;quot; By comparison, for many African American viewers, the images represented what Lorde considered a &amp;quot;veiled&amp;quot; alert. If lynching was less frequent and less noticeable than in previous decades, and if young people raised in the North had been shielded from some of the more extreme forms of racial assault, the murder of Emmett Till made it clear that African Americans, wherever they could live, they were still vulnerable to racial abuse.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Lorde, Audre. 1997. “[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42582/afterimages Afterimages]” from ''The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde''. Reprinted with the permission of Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency and W. W. Norton &amp;amp; Company, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
#Kolin, Philip C. [https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Audre+Lorde%27s+%22Afterimages%22%3A+history%2C+scripture%2C+myth%2C+and+nightmare.-a0185166809 Audre Lorde's &amp;quot;Afterimages&amp;quot;: history, scripture, myth, and nightmare.] University of Southern Mississippi.&lt;br /&gt;
#Edwin, Steve. ''[https://processedlives.tumblr.com/post/122929011775/in-afterimages-lorde-intends-not-only-to Remembering the Ancestor’s Image: Emmett Till and Predicaments of Witnessing].'' [https://processedlives.tumblr.com/ Processed Lives.]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Afterimages (1997)</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-25T03:15:21Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;  == Poetry ==    I  However the image enters  its force remains within  my eyes  rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve     wild for life, relentless and acquisiti...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry ==&lt;br /&gt;
   I&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However the image enters&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its force remains within&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wild for life, relentless and acquisitive   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
learning to survive&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
where there is no food&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes are always hungry&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and remembering&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
however the image enters&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
its force remains.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A white woman stands bereft and empty&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a black boy hacked into a murderous lesson   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
recalled in me forever&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
etched into my visions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
food for dragonfish that learn&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to live upon whatever they must eat&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fused images beneath my pain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   II&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Pearl River floods through the streets of Jackson   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A Mississippi summer televised.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Trapped houses kneel like sinners in the rain&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a white woman climbs from her roof to a passing boat   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her fingers tarry for a moment on the chimney   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
now awash&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
tearless and no longer young, she holds   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a tattered baby's blanket in her arms.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In a flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a microphone&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
thrust up against her flat bewildered words&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
         “we jest come from the bank yestiddy   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  borrowing money to pay the income tax   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  now everything's gone. I never knew   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  it could be so hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Despair weighs down her voice like Pearl River mud   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
caked around the edges&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her pale eyes scanning the camera for help or explanation&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
unanswered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
she shifts her search across the watered street, dry-eyed   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                  “hard, but not this hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Two tow-headed children hurl themselves against her   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
hanging upon her coat like mirrors&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
until a man with ham-like hands pulls her aside   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
snarling “She ain't got nothing more to say!”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and that lie hangs in his mouth&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a shred of rotting meat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   III&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I inherited Jackson, Mississippi.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For my majority it gave me Emmett Till   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his 15 years puffed out like bruises   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on plump boy-cheeks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his only Mississippi summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistling a 21 gun salute to Dixie&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as a white girl passed him in the street   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and he was baptized my son forever   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the midnight waters of the Pearl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His broken body is the afterimage of my 21st year&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
when I walked through a northern summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes averted&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
from each corner's photographies   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
newspapers protest posters magazines   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Police Story, Confidential, True   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the avid insistence of detail&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
pretending insight or information&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the length of gash across the dead boy's loins&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his grieving mother's lamentation   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the severed lips, how many burns   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his gouged out eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sewed shut upon the screaming covers   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
louder than life&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
all over&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the veiled warning, the secret relish   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of a black child's mutilated body   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
fingered by street-corner eyes   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
bruise upon livid bruise&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and wherever I looked that summer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I learned to be at home with children's blood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with savored violence&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with pictures of black broken flesh   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
used, crumpled, and discarded   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lying amid the sidewalk refuse   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like a raped woman's face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A black boy from Chicago&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistled on the streets of Jackson, Mississippi&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
testing what he'd been taught was a manly thing to do&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
his teachers&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ripped his eyes out his sex his tongue&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and flung him to the Pearl weighted with stone&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in the name of white womanhood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
they took their aroused honor&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
back to Jackson&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and celebrated in a whorehouse&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the double ritual of white manhood&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   IV&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
   &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;“If earth and air and water do not judge them who are&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;     we to refuse a crust of bread?”&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Emmett Till rides the crest of the Pearl, whistling&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
24 years his ghost lay like the shade of a raped woman   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and a white girl has grown older in costly honor   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(what did she pay to never know its price?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
now the Pearl River speaks its muddy judgment   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and I can withhold my pity and my bread.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
           “Hard, but not this hard.”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Her face is flat with resignation and despair   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with ancient and familiar sorrows&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman surveying her crumpled future&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as the white girl besmirched by Emmett's whistle   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
never allowed her own tongue&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
without power or conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
unvoiced&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
she stands adrift in the ruins of her honor   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and a man with an executioner's face&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
pulls her away.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Within my eyes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the flickering afterimages of a nightmare rain&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman wrings her hands&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
beneath the weight of agonies remembered&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I wade through summer ghosts   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
betrayed by vision&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
hers and my own&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
becoming dragonfish to survive   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the horrors we are living&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with tortured lungs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
adapting to breathe blood.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A woman measures her life's damage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
my eyes are caves, chunks of etched rock&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
tied to the ghost of a black boy   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whistling&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
crying and frightened&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
her tow-headed children cluster   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
like little mirrors of despair   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
their father's hands upon them   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and soundlessly&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a woman begins to weep.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Lorde, Audre. 1997. “[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42582/afterimages Afterimages]” from ''The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde''. Reprinted with the permission of Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency and W. W. Norton &amp;amp; Company, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Riot: 60's</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Created page with &amp;quot;== Poem == Our  YOUR FRIEND CHARLIE pawnshop  was a glorious blaze  I heard the flames lick  then eat the trays  of zircons  mounted in red gold alloys  Easter clothes and sto...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Poem ==&lt;br /&gt;
Our&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
YOUR FRIEND CHARLIE pawnshop&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
was a glorious blaze&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I heard the flames lick&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
then eat the trays&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
of zircons&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
mounted in red gold alloys&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Easter clothes and stolen furs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
burned in the attic&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
radios and teevees&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
crackled with static&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
plugged in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
only to a racial outlet&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Some&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
thought the FRIENDLY FINANCE FURNITURE CO.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
burned higher&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When a leopard print sofa with gold legs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(which makes into a bed)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
caught fire&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
an admiring groan from the waiting horde&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Absentee landlord&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
you got that shit”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lighting: a hundred Watts&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Detroit, Newark and New York&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Screeching nerves, exploding minds&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lives tied to a policeman’s whistle&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
a welfare worker’s doorbell&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
finger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hospitality, southern-style&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
corn pone grits and you-all smile&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
whole blocks novae&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
brand new stars&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
policemen caught in their&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
brand new cars&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Chugga chugga chigga&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
git me one nigga&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lootin’ n burnin’&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
he won’t git far&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Watermelons, summer ripe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
grey neck bones and boiling tripe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
supermarket roastin like the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
noon-day sun&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
national guard nervous with his shiny gun&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
goose the motor quicker&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
here’s my nigga picka&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
shoot him in the belly&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
shoot him while he run&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>I, Too (1925)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Author: Langston Hughes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Published: 1925&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; is a poem written by Langston Hughes that shows a desire for equality through perseverance while disproving the notion that race restricts patriotism. It was first published in a special issue of the Survey Graphic magazine, Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, in March 1925. It was later reprinted in 1926 in Hughes' first poetry book, The Weary Blues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hughes incorporates the sense of unity that the U.S. has President Abraham Lincoln spoke &amp;quot;by beginning his poem with a near direct reference to Walt Whitman.&amp;quot; about the separate and diverse sections of American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry and Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===The Poem===&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, sing America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am the darker brother.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They send me to eat in the kitchen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But I laugh,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And eat well,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And grow strong.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tomorrow,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I’ll be at the table&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody’ll dare&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Say to me,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Eat in the kitchen,”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Besides,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They’ll see how beautiful I am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And be ashamed—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, am America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Summary===&lt;br /&gt;
At the height of the Harlem Revival, the poem was published in 1926, and depicts American racism as witnessed by a black man. In the poem, the speaker is refused a literal and metaphorical seat at the table by white people. The speaker argues, however, that he is as much a part of America as white people are, and that the rest of the world will soon be forced to accept the beauty and power of black people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author Biography==&lt;br /&gt;
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, to Carrie Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes. Hughes sometimes accompanied his mother as she traveled, having been raised by his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas, for most of his youth. For a year after the 1915 death of his grandmother. By 1916, his mother, who had remarried, was living with him again. In Lincoln, Illinois, the family settled, where Hughes studied at Central High School.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For the school journal, Hughes started writing high school poetry. He spent a year living with his father in Mexico after graduation, where he wrote poetry and a children's short play, all of which were published in 1921 in the Brownies' Book magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In Crisis, also in 1921, another poem and an essay were published. Hughes then enrolled at New York City's Columbia University, where he experienced campus prejudice. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Particularly in the dormitories; he left after his first year as a consequence. While writing poetry, he worked a number of odd jobs. In 1925, he was working as a busboy at a hotel restaurant when he sent the poet Vachel Lindsay some of his poems. Hughes read in a newspaper the next day that Lindsay had found a poet in the Negro busboy. Hughes was instructed by Lindsay to find a publisher. The same year, Hughes received an Urban League funded poetry award. Hughes was asked by the critic Carl Van Vechten at the award ceremony whether Hughes had enough poems to write a novel. Hughes's first book of poems, which included &amp;quot;I, Too,&amp;quot; was published as The Weary Blues in 1926.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Because of the colour of the skin, the Whites view the Blacks as slaves, not as the people of America. The blacks have darker skin colour, but as in lines 1 and 2 of the poem, they consider the whites to be the brother and the blacks want to be part of America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, sing America. 1&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am the darker brother. 2&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The segregation can be seen in the way that when they want to have their meal, the whites handle the blacks, so they send the blacks into the kitchen. The whites do not want the blacks to have their meal together, so they just accept the other whites to have meal in the dining room together. This does not allow the spirit of the Blacks to be lost. To be healthy enough to have racial quality, they eat well, learn and develop strength.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#C. Ward, David (September 2, 2016). [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-langston-hughes-powerful-poem-i-too-americas-past-present-180960552/ What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present]. SmithSonian Magazine. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes] from the [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Poetry Foundation.]&lt;br /&gt;
#[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too .&amp;quot; Poetry for Students.] . ''[https://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopedia].com.'' 21 Dec. 2020&lt;br /&gt;
#Spacey, Andrew (January 10, 2020). [https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-I-Too-by-Langston-Hughes#:~:text=Langston%20Hughes%20And%20A%20Summary,denial%20of%20rights%20and%20inequality. Analysis of Poem &amp;quot;I,Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes.] [https://owlcation.com/ Owlcation]. Retrieved December 21, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#Utama, Fajri Khaimara. 2016. [https://media.neliti.com/media/publications/191601-EN-racial-segregation-in-langston-hughess-i.pdf Racial Segregation in Langston Hughes' I, Too].&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>I, Too (1925)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Author: Langston Hughes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Published: 1925&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; is a poem written by Langston Hughes that shows a desire for equality through perseverance while disproving the notion that race restricts patriotism. It was first published in a special issue of the Survey Graphic magazine, Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, in March 1925. It was later reprinted in 1926 in Hughes' first poetry book, The Weary Blues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hughes incorporates the sense of unity that the U.S. has President Abraham Lincoln spoke &amp;quot;by beginning his poem with a near direct reference to Walt Whitman.&amp;quot; about the separate and diverse sections of American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Poetry and Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===The Poem===&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, sing America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am the darker brother.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They send me to eat in the kitchen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But I laugh,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And eat well,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And grow strong.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tomorrow,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I’ll be at the table&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody’ll dare&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Say to me,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Eat in the kitchen,”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Besides,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They’ll see how beautiful I am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And be ashamed—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, am America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Summary===&lt;br /&gt;
At the height of the Harlem Revival, the poem was published in 1926, and depicts American racism as witnessed by a black man. In the poem, the speaker is refused a literal and metaphorical seat at the table by white people. The speaker argues, however, that he is as much a part of America as white people are, and that the rest of the world will soon be forced to accept the beauty and power of black people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Author Biography==&lt;br /&gt;
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, to Carrie Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes. Hughes sometimes accompanied his mother as she traveled, having been raised by his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas, for most of his youth. For a year after the 1915 death of his grandmother. By 1916, his mother, who had remarried, was living with him again. In Lincoln, Illinois, the family settled, where Hughes studied at Central High School.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For the school journal, Hughes started writing high school poetry. He spent a year living with his father in Mexico after graduation, where he wrote poetry and a children's short play, all of which were published in 1921 in the Brownies' Book magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In Crisis, also in 1921, another poem and an essay were published. Hughes then enrolled at New York City's Columbia University, where he experienced campus prejudice. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Particularly in the dormitories; he left after his first year as a consequence. While writing poetry, he worked a number of odd jobs. In 1925, he was working as a busboy at a hotel restaurant when he sent the poet Vachel Lindsay some of his poems. Hughes read in a newspaper the next day that Lindsay had found a poet in the Negro busboy. Hughes was instructed by Lindsay to find a publisher. The same year, Hughes received an Urban League funded poetry award. Hughes was asked by the critic Carl Van Vechten at the award ceremony whether Hughes had enough poems to write a novel. Hughes's first book of poems, which included &amp;quot;I, Too,&amp;quot; was published as The Weary Blues in 1926.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Because of the colour of the skin, the Whites view the Blacks as slaves, not as the people of America. The blacks have darker skin colour, but as in lines 1 and 2 of the poem, they consider the whites to be the brother and the blacks want to be part of America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, sing America. 1&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am the darker brother. 2&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The segregation can be seen in the way that when they want to have their meal, the whites handle the blacks, so they send the blacks into the kitchen. The whites do not want the blacks to have their meal together, so they just accept the other whites to have meal in the dining room together. This does not allow the spirit of the Blacks to be lost. To be healthy enough to have racial quality, they eat well, learn and develop strength.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#C. Ward, David (September 2, 2016). [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-langston-hughes-powerful-poem-i-too-americas-past-present-180960552/ What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present]. SmithSonian Magazine. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes] from the [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Poetry Foundation.]&lt;br /&gt;
#[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too .&amp;quot; Poetry for Students.] . ''[https://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopedia].com.'' 21 Dec. 2020&lt;br /&gt;
#Spacey, Andrew (January 10, 2020). [https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-I-Too-by-Langston-Hughes#:~:text=Langston%20Hughes%20And%20A%20Summary,denial%20of%20rights%20and%20inequality. Analysis of Poem &amp;quot;I,Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes.] [https://owlcation.com/ Owlcation]. Retrieved December 21, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#Utama, Fajri Khaimara. 2016. [https://media.neliti.com/media/publications/191601-EN-racial-segregation-in-langston-hughess-i.pdf Racial Segregation in Langston Hughes' I, Too].&lt;br /&gt;
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=I,_Too_(1925)&amp;diff=4300006</id>
		<title>I, Too (1925)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=I,_Too_(1925)&amp;diff=4300006"/>
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&lt;div&gt;Author: Langston Hughes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Published: 1925&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; is a poem written by Langston Hughes that shows a desire for equality through perseverance while disproving the notion that race restricts patriotism. It was first published in a special issue of the Survey Graphic magazine, Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, in March 1925. It was later reprinted in 1926 in Hughes' first poetry book, The Weary Blues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hughes incorporates the sense of unity that the U.S. has President Abraham Lincoln spoke &amp;quot;by beginning his poem with a near direct reference to Walt Whitman.&amp;quot; about the separate and diverse sections of American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Poetry and Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Poem ===&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, sing America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am the darker brother.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They send me to eat in the kitchen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But I laugh,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And eat well,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And grow strong.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tomorrow,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I’ll be at the table&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When company comes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody’ll dare&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Say to me,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
“Eat in the kitchen,”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Then.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Besides,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They’ll see how beautiful I am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And be ashamed—&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I, too, am America.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Summary ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Theme ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Author Biography ==&lt;br /&gt;
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, to Carrie Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes. Hughes sometimes accompanied his mother as she traveled, having been raised by his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas, for most of his youth. For a year after the 1915 death of his grandmother. By 1916, his mother, who had remarried, was living with him again. In Lincoln, Illinois, the family settled, where Hughes studied at Central High School.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For the school journal, Hughes started writing high school poetry. He spent a year living with his father in Mexico after graduation, where he wrote poetry and a children's short play, all of which were published in 1921 in the Brownies' Book magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In Crisis, also in 1921, another poem and an essay were published. Hughes then enrolled at New York City's Columbia University, where he experienced campus prejudice. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Particularly in the dormitories; he left after his first year as a consequence. While writing poetry, he worked a number of odd jobs. In 1925, he was working as a busboy at a hotel restaurant when he sent the poet Vachel Lindsay some of his poems. Hughes read in a newspaper the next day that Lindsay had found a poet in the Negro busboy. Hughes was instructed by Lindsay to find a publisher. The same year, Hughes received an Urban League funded poetry award. Hughes was asked by the critic Carl Van Vechten at the award ceremony whether Hughes had enough poems to write a novel. Hughes's first book of poems, which included &amp;quot;I, Too,&amp;quot; was published as The Weary Blues in 1926.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# C. Ward, David (September 2, 2016). [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-langston-hughes-powerful-poem-i-too-americas-past-present-180960552/ What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present]. SmithSonian Magazine. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes] from the [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Poetry Foundation.]&lt;br /&gt;
# [https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/i-too &amp;quot;I, Too .&amp;quot; Poetry for Students.] . ''[https://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopedia].com.'' 21 Dec. 2020&lt;br /&gt;
# Spacey, Andrew (January 10, 2020). [https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-I-Too-by-Langston-Hughes#:~:text=Langston%20Hughes%20And%20A%20Summary,denial%20of%20rights%20and%20inequality. Analysis of Poem &amp;quot;I,Too&amp;quot; by Langston Hughes.] [https://owlcation.com/ Owlcation]. Retrieved December 21, 2020. &lt;br /&gt;
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	<entry>
		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Akeelah_and_the_bee_(2006)&amp;diff=4293974</id>
		<title>Akeelah and the bee (2006)</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-23T12:28:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: /* Racism Issues */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Akeelah and the Bee (2006).jpg|thumb]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rating: PG (Some Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genre: Kids And Family, Drama&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Doug Atchison&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 28, 2006  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.8M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 52m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: 2929 Productions, Cinema Gypsy Productions, Lionsgate Films, Out of the Blue... Entertainment, Spelling Bee Productions Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah and the Bee is a drama genre film released in 2006.This movie is directer by Doug Atchison and starring Keke Palmer. This movie tells about Akeelah's struggle against racism in order to compete in the national Speeling Bee Championship with the help of Professor Larabee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Plot==&lt;br /&gt;
At his school in South Central Los Angeles, Akeelah Anderson might be better than anybody, and he could stand a chance at the national level. On ESPN, he saw the National Spelling Bee and he was fascinated. But he's cautious as well, because there's a chance of being branded a &amp;quot;genius&amp;quot; in his school, and it's better to keep your intellect to yourself. In some largely black colleges, it's a tragedy: achievement is punished by other students, maybe as an expression of their low self-esteem.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The issue with Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is that whether he wants to or not, he can spell. Beating time as a type of metronome with his hand on his thigh, he pulled out the letters and arrived triumphantly at the words. No she has no memory of painting, nor does she pass on occultism as the &amp;quot;Season of the Bees&amp;quot; heroine does. She's just a fine speller.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After a reluctant English professor decided to serve as his mentor, the real chance of national success came. It's Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), who is on leave after the death of his daughter. Training it is a way out of a shell of its own. And for Fishburne, it is a reminder of his work in another film, 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' (1993), in which he trains a child prodigy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah has been teased not only at school. Her own mother was against it. Tanya Anderson (Angela Bassett) has problems after her husband's death, and values ​​her homework above all else, including silly after-school activities like spelling bees. Akeelah has been training in secret, and after she's won a few bees, even the tough kids in the neighborhood start cheering for her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issues==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Pros ===&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah who really likes the spelling championship gets pressure from her brother that the participants in the spelling bee are usually white children. Her father died on his way home from work after being shot by an unknown. This reminds us of how many cases of Black People’s lives are taken without any proper reason but awful injustice. She lives in a violent and unsupportive environment. Due to Akeelah's hardwork and help from Dr. Larabee, Akeelah successfully wins the spelling contest. The older brother of Akeelah also attempts to break out of the societal stereotype and join the Air Force, while his younger brother falls into the wrong category slowly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Cons ===&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, there is also some racism which is shown for black people such as when Akeelah has to hide her intelligence and interest in spelling bees. Appearing as a genius can make Akeelah bullied at an all-black school. This shows bad stereotypes about black people. It's a tragedy in some predominantly black schools: Excellence is being punished by other students, perhaps as an expression of their low self-esteem. Another example of racism is the scene where Korean boys Akeelah fight. The Korean child's father is shown judging him personally about almost being defeated at Scrabble by Akeelah: &amp;quot;If you can barely beat the little black girl ...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee, Melissa (April 27, 2006). [https://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2006/04/27/akeelah-and-the-bee-spells-heartwarming-well-it-should/ ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ spells heartwarming… well, it should']. The Tufts Daily. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#Fahkrian, Andra(2016). [http://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/edulite/article/view/796 THE AMERICA’S CHRONICALLY GAP SKIN-COLORS, THE BOURGEOUIS, AND THE BEE’S TENSION AS DISCOVERED IN AKEELAH: THE LOGO-THERAPHY APPROACH]. Sultan Agung Islamic University Semarang&lt;br /&gt;
#Ebert, Roger (April 27, 2020). [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/akeelah-and-the-bee-2006 Akeelah. A-k-e-e-l-a-h. Akeelah]. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Akeelah_and_the_bee_(2006)&amp;diff=4293677</id>
		<title>Akeelah and the bee (2006)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Akeelah_and_the_bee_(2006)&amp;diff=4293677"/>
		<updated>2020-12-22T15:43:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: the reference&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Akeelah and the Bee (2006).jpg|thumb]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rating: PG (Some Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genre: Kids And Family, Drama&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Doug Atchison&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 28, 2006  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.8M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 52m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: 2929 Productions, Cinema Gypsy Productions, Lionsgate Films, Out of the Blue... Entertainment, Spelling Bee Productions Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah and the Bee is a drama genre film released in 2006.This movie is directer by Doug Atchison and starring Keke Palmer. This movie tells about Akeelah's struggle against racism in order to compete in the national Speeling Bee Championship with the help of Professor Larabee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Plot==&lt;br /&gt;
At his school in South Central Los Angeles, Akeelah Anderson might be better than anybody, and he could stand a chance at the national level. On ESPN, he saw the National Spelling Bee and he was fascinated. But he's cautious as well, because there's a chance of being branded a &amp;quot;genius&amp;quot; in his school, and it's better to keep your intellect to yourself. In some largely black colleges, it's a tragedy: achievement is punished by other students, maybe as an expression of their low self-esteem.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The issue with Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is that whether he wants to or not, he can spell. Beating time as a type of metronome with his hand on his thigh, he pulled out the letters and arrived triumphantly at the words. No she has no memory of painting, nor does she pass on occultism as the &amp;quot;Season of the Bees&amp;quot; heroine does. She's just a fine speller.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After a reluctant English professor decided to serve as his mentor, the real chance of national success came. It's Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), who is on leave after the death of his daughter. Training it is a way out of a shell of its own. And for Fishburne, it is a reminder of his work in another film, 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' (1993), in which he trains a child prodigy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah has been teased not only at school. Her own mother was against it. Tanya Anderson (Angela Bassett) has problems after her husband's death, and values ​​her homework above all else, including silly after-school activities like spelling bees. Akeelah has been training in secret, and after she's won a few bees, even the tough kids in the neighborhood start cheering for her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issues==&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah who really likes the spelling championship gets pressure from her brother that the spelling bee participants are usually white children. She lives in a violent and non-supportive environment. She had to hide her intelligence and interest in the spelling bee. Appearing as a genius can make Akeelah bullied at a special school for black children.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another example of racism is the scene where Korean boys Akeelah fight back. The Korean child's father is shown judging him personally about being nearly defeated at Scrabble by Akeelah: &amp;quot;If you can barely beat the little black girl ...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Reference==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Lee, Melissa (April 27, 2006). [https://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2006/04/27/akeelah-and-the-bee-spells-heartwarming-well-it-should/ ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ spells heartwarming… well, it should']. The Tufts Daily. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
#Fahkrian, Andra(2016). [http://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/edulite/article/view/796 THE AMERICA’S CHRONICALLY GAP SKIN-COLORS, THE BOURGEOUIS, AND THE BEE’S TENSION AS DISCOVERED IN AKEELAH: THE LOGO-THERAPHY APPROACH]. Sultan Agung Islamic University Semarang&lt;br /&gt;
#Ebert, Roger (April 27, 2020). [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/akeelah-and-the-bee-2006 Akeelah. A-k-e-e-l-a-h. Akeelah]. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved December 22, 2020.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Us_(2019)&amp;diff=4136099</id>
		<title>Us (2019)</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-17T21:27:52Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Us (2019) theatrical poster.png|thumb|link=https://blackwiki.org/File:Us_(2019)_theatrical_poster.png]]Genre: Horror, Mystery And Thriller&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Ian Cooper&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Writer: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $175.0M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 56m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: Monkeypaw Productions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Us is a psychological thriller written and directed by [https://www.biography.com/actor/jordan-peele#:~:text=Jordan%20Peele%20(born%20February%2021,most%20profitable%20film%20of%202017.&amp;amp;text=Earlier%20in%20his%20career%2C%20Peele,Comedy%20Central%20show%20Key%20%26%20Peele. Jordan Peele]. This film was released in 2019. It is starred by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. This film tells the story of a married couple Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) taking their two children for a vacation to the beach to have fun. Peele creates a thrilling horror film without a ghost with just a doppelgänger grin.&lt;br /&gt;
==Plot==&lt;br /&gt;
The story tells the story of Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), a married couple who took their children to a coastal home. They go out with their friends, the Tyler family (Tim Heidecker) and is mom, in order to have fun (Elisabeth Moss). When night falls, all the fun  shifts. Their calm turned into confusion and stress. Several unknown guests surprisingly came to their residence uninvited. Surprisingly, this group of people had the very same faces as any single person.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Surprisingly, this group of individuals had the exact same faces as each Wilson family member. Even this group of individuals appeared to have talents that average humans did not possess. This group of uninvited guests kills everyone in the city and on the beach, causing havoc all over the city. They have not stopped chasing the Wilson family yet.&lt;br /&gt;
==Cast==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.biography.com/actor/lupita-nyongo Lupita Nyong'o] as Adelaide Wilson / Red&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/winston-duke.html Winston Duke] as Gabe Wilson / Abraham&lt;br /&gt;
*Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler / Dahlia&lt;br /&gt;
*Shahadi Wright Josep&lt;br /&gt;
*Evan Alex as Jason Wilson / Pluto&lt;br /&gt;
*Cali Sheldon Becca Tyler / lo&lt;br /&gt;
*Anna Diop as Rayne Thomas / Eartha&lt;br /&gt;
*Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Russel Thomas / Weyland&lt;br /&gt;
*Tim Heidecker Josh Tyler / Tex&lt;br /&gt;
*Madison Curry as Young Adele Wilson / Young Red&lt;br /&gt;
*Noelle Sheldon as Lindsey Tyler / Nix&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Us have a deep archetypal layer, and the pain lies in the output of Lupita Nyong. It's a dark and scary film, but in a good way. When discussing the idea of the American dream, which Peele does wonderfully, it facilitates reflections on structural injustice, social disparity and the duality of human existence.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As an audience, Peele has our attention, implying that he is able to influence our society. His genius lies in visually translating the experience of oppression, helping us grasp in cinematic terms the attack on the black body. He expands the tradition of experiencing black suffering and questioning the duality of black American life that dates back to the 1896 poem, We Wear The Masks, by Paul Laurence Dunbar. &lt;br /&gt;
==Theory Behind Details==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*The Bible verse that constantly appears in the movie (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: &amp;quot;Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Many main scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, much like The Lost Boys (1987). As Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, &amp;quot;You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel.&amp;quot; this is also referenced in the universe.&lt;br /&gt;
*A reference to The Shining is the overhead shot of the Wilsons heading to the holiday home, along with the twins' synchronized voice and mannerisms (1980).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the unhelpful virtual assistant of the Tylers, Ophelia, ironically derives from the Greek &amp;quot;ophéleia,&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;help.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops while the Wilsons are at the Tylers' home. In Jordan Peele's previous film, Get Out (2017), this refers to a scene in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from &amp;quot;segregated&amp;quot; glasses.&lt;br /&gt;
*The baseball game is at 11-11 tied... And Minnesota is a band. The team from Minnesota is called the Twins.&lt;br /&gt;
*One of the VHS tapes seen near the TV at the beginning of the film is The Man with Two Brains, in line with the film's theme of duality and the notion of two similar parts making up one whole (1983).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the kid, Jason, is a nod to the villain of Friday the 13th, Jason, who wears a mask too.&lt;br /&gt;
*It seems that the use of the song I Got 5 On resonates with the film's main theme. It tells of two guys chipping in $5 each to buy a $10 bag of marijuana, which is a mixture of two items making one whole, much like the Tethered themselves, like the scissors and the repetition of number 11 in the movie.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/&lt;br /&gt;
#http://udreview.com/six-horror-films-that-address-issues-of-systemic-racism-and-oppression/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Black Racism in Thriller Movie]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Category:Black_Racism_in_Thriller_Movie&amp;diff=4136091</id>
		<title>Category:Black Racism in Thriller Movie</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-17T21:27:31Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: Blanked the page&lt;/p&gt;
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Category:Black_Racism_in_Thriller_Movie&amp;diff=4136054</id>
		<title>Category:Black Racism in Thriller Movie</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-17T21:26:26Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: the reference&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Us (2019) theatrical poster.png|thumb]]Genre: Horror, Mystery And Thriller&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Ian Cooper&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Writer: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $175.0M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 56m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: Monkeypaw Productions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Us is a psychological thriller written and directed by [https://www.biography.com/actor/jordan-peele#:~:text=Jordan%20Peele%20(born%20February%2021,most%20profitable%20film%20of%202017.&amp;amp;text=Earlier%20in%20his%20career%2C%20Peele,Comedy%20Central%20show%20Key%20%26%20Peele. Jordan Peele]. This film was released in 2019. It is starred by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. This film tells the story of a married couple Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) taking their two children for a vacation to the beach to have fun. Peele creates a thrilling horror film without a ghost with just a doppelgänger grin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Plot==&lt;br /&gt;
The story tells the story of Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), a married couple who took their children to a coastal home. They go out with their friends, the Tyler family (Tim Heidecker) and is mom, in order to have fun (Elisabeth Moss). When night falls, all the fun  shifts. Their calm turned into confusion and stress. Several unknown guests surprisingly came to their residence uninvited. Surprisingly, this group of people had the very same faces as any single person.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Surprisingly, this group of individuals had the exact same faces as each Wilson family member. Even this group of individuals appeared to have talents that average humans did not possess. This group of uninvited guests kills everyone in the city and on the beach, causing havoc all over the city. They have not stopped chasing the Wilson family yet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Cast==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.biography.com/actor/lupita-nyongo Lupita Nyong'o] as Adelaide Wilson / Red&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/winston-duke.html Winston Duke] as Gabe Wilson / Abraham&lt;br /&gt;
*Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler / Dahlia&lt;br /&gt;
*Shahadi Wright Josep&lt;br /&gt;
*Evan Alex as Jason Wilson / Pluto&lt;br /&gt;
*Cali Sheldon Becca Tyler / lo&lt;br /&gt;
*Anna Diop as Rayne Thomas / Eartha&lt;br /&gt;
*Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Russel Thomas / Weyland&lt;br /&gt;
*Tim Heidecker Josh Tyler / Tex&lt;br /&gt;
*Madison Curry as Young Adele Wilson / Young Red&lt;br /&gt;
*Noelle Sheldon as Lindsey Tyler / Nix&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Us have a deep archetypal layer, and the pain lies in the output of Lupita Nyong. It's a dark and scary film, but in a good way. When discussing the idea of the American dream, which Peele does wonderfully, it facilitates reflections on structural injustice, social disparity and the duality of human existence. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As an audience, Peele has our attention, implying that he is able to influence our society. His genius lies in visually translating the experience of oppression, helping us grasp in cinematic terms the attack on the black body. He expands the tradition of experiencing black suffering and questioning the duality of black American life that dates back to the 1896 poem, We Wear The Masks, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Theory Behind Details==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*The Bible verse that constantly appears in the movie (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: &amp;quot;Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Many main scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, much like The Lost Boys (1987). As Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, &amp;quot;You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel.&amp;quot; this is also referenced in the universe.&lt;br /&gt;
*A reference to The Shining is the overhead shot of the Wilsons heading to the holiday home, along with the twins' synchronized voice and mannerisms (1980).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the unhelpful virtual assistant of the Tylers, Ophelia, ironically derives from the Greek &amp;quot;ophéleia,&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;help.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops while the Wilsons are at the Tylers' home. In Jordan Peele's previous film, Get Out (2017), this refers to a scene in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from &amp;quot;segregated&amp;quot; glasses.&lt;br /&gt;
*The baseball game is at 11-11 tied... And Minnesota is a band. The team from Minnesota is called the Twins.&lt;br /&gt;
*One of the VHS tapes seen near the TV at the beginning of the film is The Man with Two Brains, in line with the film's theme of duality and the notion of two similar parts making up one whole (1983).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the kid, Jason, is a nod to the villain of Friday the 13th, Jason, who wears a mask too.&lt;br /&gt;
*It seems that the use of the song I Got 5 On resonates with the film's main theme. It tells of two guys chipping in $5 each to buy a $10 bag of marijuana, which is a mixture of two items making one whole, much like the Tethered themselves, like the scissors and the repetition of number 11 in the movie.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/&lt;br /&gt;
#http://udreview.com/six-horror-films-that-address-issues-of-systemic-racism-and-oppression/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Akeelah_and_the_bee_(2006)&amp;diff=4135753</id>
		<title>Akeelah and the bee (2006)</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-17T21:18:26Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: article about drama movie akeelah and the bee (2006)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Akeelah and the Bee (2006).jpg|thumb]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Rating: PG (Some Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Genre: Kids And Family, Drama&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Doug Atchison&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 28, 2006  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.8M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 52m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: 2929 Productions, Cinema Gypsy Productions, Lionsgate Films, Out of the Blue... Entertainment, Spelling Bee Productions Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah and the Bee is a drama genre film released in 2006.This movie is directer by Doug Atchison and starring Keke Palmer. This movie tells about Akeelah's struggle against racism in order to compete in the national Speeling Bee Championship with the help of Professor Larabee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Plot ==&lt;br /&gt;
At his school in South Central Los Angeles, Akeelah Anderson might be better than anybody, and he could stand a chance at the national level. On ESPN, he saw the National Spelling Bee and he was fascinated. But he's cautious as well, because there's a chance of being branded a &amp;quot;genius&amp;quot; in his school, and it's better to keep your intellect to yourself. In some largely black colleges, it's a tragedy: achievement is punished by other students, maybe as an expression of their low self-esteem.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The issue with Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is that whether he wants to or not, he can spell. Beating time as a type of metronome with his hand on his thigh, he pulled out the letters and arrived triumphantly at the words. No she has no memory of painting, nor does she pass on occultism as the &amp;quot;Season of the Bees&amp;quot; heroine does. She's just a fine speller.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After a reluctant English professor decided to serve as his mentor, the real chance of national success came. It's Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), who is on leave after the death of his daughter. Training it is a way out of a shell of its own. And for Fishburne, it is a reminder of his work in another film, 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' (1993), in which he trains a child prodigy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah has been teased not only at school. Her own mother was against it. Tanya Anderson (Angela Bassett) has problems after her husband's death, and values ​​her homework above all else, including silly after-school activities like spelling bees. Akeelah has been training in secret, and after she's won a few bees, even the tough kids in the neighborhood start cheering for her&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Cast ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1551130/ Keke Palmer] ''as Akeelah Anderson''&lt;br /&gt;
* Angela Bassett ''as Tanya Anderson''&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Fishburne Laurence Fishburne] ''as Dr. Joshua Larabee''&lt;br /&gt;
* Curtis Armstrong ''as Mr. Welch''&lt;br /&gt;
* J.R. Villarreal ''as Javier''&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahara Garey ''as Georgia''&lt;br /&gt;
* Sean Michael Afable ''as Dylan''&lt;br /&gt;
* Erica Hubbard ''as Kiana Anderson''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Racism Issues ==&lt;br /&gt;
Akeelah who really likes the spelling championship gets pressure from her brother that the spelling bee participants are usually white children. She lives in a violent and non-supportive environment. She had to hide her intelligence and interest in the spelling bee. Appearing as a genius can make Akeelah bullied at a special school for black children.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another example of racism is the scene where Korean boys Akeelah fight back. The Korean child's father is shown judging him personally about being nearly defeated at Scrabble by Akeelah: &amp;quot;If you can barely beat the little black girl ...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Reference ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/akeelah_and_the_bee&lt;br /&gt;
# [http://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/edulite/article/download/796/662 THE AMERICA’S CHRONICALLY GAP SKIN-COLORS, THE BOURGEOUIS, AND THE BEE’S TENSION AS DISCOVERED IN AKEELAH: THE LOGO-THERAPHY APPROACH] by Andra Fakhrian&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=File:Akeelah_and_the_Bee_(2006).jpg&amp;diff=4135726</id>
		<title>File:Akeelah and the Bee (2006).jpg</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;this is the poster of the movie Akeelah and the Bee&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Category:Black Racism in Thriller Movie</title>
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		<updated>2020-12-17T20:37:22Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: adding link to jordan peele's biography&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Us (2019) theatrical poster.png|thumb]]&lt;br /&gt;
Genre: Horror, Mystery And Thriller&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Director: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Producer: Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Ian Cooper&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Writer: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Box Office (Gross USA): $175.0M&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Duration: 1h 56m&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Production Co: Monkeypaw Productions&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Us is a psychological thriller written and directed by [https://www.biography.com/actor/jordan-peele#:~:text=Jordan%20Peele%20(born%20February%2021,most%20profitable%20film%20of%202017.&amp;amp;text=Earlier%20in%20his%20career%2C%20Peele,Comedy%20Central%20show%20Key%20%26%20Peele. Jordan Peele]. This film was released in 2019. It is starred by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. This film tells the story of a married couple Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) taking their two children for a vacation to the beach to have fun. Peele creates a thrilling horror film without a ghost with just a doppelgänger grin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Plot==&lt;br /&gt;
The story tells the story of Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), a married couple who took their children to a coastal home. They go out with their friends, the Tyler family (Tim Heidecker) and is mom, in order to have fun (Elisabeth Moss). When night falls, all the fun  shifts. Their calm turned into confusion and stress. Several unknown guests surprisingly came to their residence uninvited. Surprisingly, this group of people had the very same faces as any single person.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Surprisingly, this group of individuals had the exact same faces as each Wilson family member. Even this group of individuals appeared to have talents that average humans did not possess. This group of uninvited guests kills everyone in the city and on the beach, causing havoc all over the city. They have not stopped chasing the Wilson family yet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Cast==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.biography.com/actor/lupita-nyongo Lupita Nyong'o] as Adelaide Wilson / Red&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/winston-duke.html Winston Duke] as Gabe Wilson / Abraham&lt;br /&gt;
*Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler / Dahlia&lt;br /&gt;
*Shahadi Wright Josep&lt;br /&gt;
*Evan Alex as Jason Wilson / Pluto&lt;br /&gt;
*Cali Sheldon Becca Tyler / lo&lt;br /&gt;
*Anna Diop as Rayne Thomas / Eartha&lt;br /&gt;
*Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Russel Thomas / Weyland&lt;br /&gt;
*Tim Heidecker Josh Tyler / Tex&lt;br /&gt;
*Madison Curry as Young Adele Wilson / Young Red&lt;br /&gt;
*Noelle Sheldon as Lindsey Tyler / Nix&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Racism Issue==&lt;br /&gt;
Us have a deep archetypal layer, and the pain lies in the output of Lupita Nyong. It's a dark and scary film, but in a good way. When discussing the idea of the American dream, which Peele does wonderfully, it facilitates reflections on structural injustice, social disparity and the duality of human existence. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As an audience, Peele has our attention, implying that he is able to influence our society. His genius lies in visually translating the experience of oppression, helping us grasp in cinematic terms the attack on the black body. He expands the tradition of experiencing black suffering and questioning the duality of black American life that dates back to the 1896 poem, We Wear The Masks, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Theory Behind Details==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*The Bible verse that constantly appears in the movie (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: &amp;quot;Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Many main scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, much like The Lost Boys (1987). As Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, &amp;quot;You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel.&amp;quot; this is also referenced in the universe.&lt;br /&gt;
*A reference to The Shining is the overhead shot of the Wilsons heading to the holiday home, along with the twins' synchronized voice and mannerisms (1980).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the unhelpful virtual assistant of the Tylers, Ophelia, ironically derives from the Greek &amp;quot;ophéleia,&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;help.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops while the Wilsons are at the Tylers' home. In Jordan Peele's previous film, Get Out (2017), this refers to a scene in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from &amp;quot;segregated&amp;quot; glasses.&lt;br /&gt;
*The baseball game is at 11-11 tied... And Minnesota is a band. The team from Minnesota is called the Twins.&lt;br /&gt;
*One of the VHS tapes seen near the TV at the beginning of the film is The Man with Two Brains, in line with the film's theme of duality and the notion of two similar parts making up one whole (1983).&lt;br /&gt;
*The name of the kid, Jason, is a nod to the villain of Friday the 13th, Jason, who wears a mask too.&lt;br /&gt;
*It seems that the use of the song I Got 5 On resonates with the film's main theme. It tells of two guys chipping in $5 each to buy a $10 bag of marijuana, which is a mixture of two items making one whole, much like the Tethered themselves, like the scissors and the repetition of number 11 in the movie.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019&lt;br /&gt;
#https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/&lt;br /&gt;
#http://udreview.com/six-horror-films-that-address-issues-of-systemic-racism-and-oppression/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Engginee: entire article about Us (2019) Movie&lt;/p&gt;
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Genre: Horror, Mystery And Thriller&lt;br /&gt;
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Director: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
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Producer: Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Ian Cooper&lt;br /&gt;
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Writer: Jordan Peele&lt;br /&gt;
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Rating: R (Violence/Terror|Language)&lt;br /&gt;
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Original Language: English&lt;br /&gt;
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Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019  Wide&lt;br /&gt;
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Box Office (Gross USA): $175.0M&lt;br /&gt;
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Duration: 1h 56m&lt;br /&gt;
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Production Co: Monkeypaw Productions&lt;br /&gt;
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Us is a psychological thriller written and directed by Jordan Peele. This film was released in 2019. It is starred by Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss. This film tells the story of a married couple Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) taking their two children for a vacation to the beach to have fun. Peele creates a thrilling horror film without a ghost with just a doppelgänger grin.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot ==&lt;br /&gt;
The story tells the story of Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), a married couple who took their children to a coastal home. They go out with their friends, the Tyler family (Tim Heidecker) and is mom, in order to have fun (Elisabeth Moss). When night falls, all the fun  shifts. Their calm turned into confusion and stress. Several unknown guests surprisingly came to their residence uninvited. Surprisingly, this group of people had the very same faces as any single person.&lt;br /&gt;
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Surprisingly, this group of individuals had the exact same faces as each Wilson family member. Even this group of individuals appeared to have talents that average humans did not possess. This group of uninvited guests kills everyone in the city and on the beach, causing havoc all over the city. They have not stopped chasing the Wilson family yet.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Cast ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://www.biography.com/actor/lupita-nyongo Lupita Nyong'o] as Adelaide Wilson / Red&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/winston-duke.html Winston Duke] as Gabe Wilson / Abraham&lt;br /&gt;
* Elisabeth Moss as Kitty Tyler / Dahlia&lt;br /&gt;
* Shahadi Wright Josep&lt;br /&gt;
* Evan Alex as Jason Wilson / Pluto&lt;br /&gt;
* Cali Sheldon Becca Tyler / lo&lt;br /&gt;
* Anna Diop as Rayne Thomas / Eartha&lt;br /&gt;
* Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Russel Thomas / Weyland&lt;br /&gt;
* Tim Heidecker Josh Tyler / Tex&lt;br /&gt;
* Madison Curry as Young Adele Wilson / Young Red&lt;br /&gt;
* Noelle Sheldon as Lindsey Tyler / Nix&lt;br /&gt;
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== Racism Issue ==&lt;br /&gt;
Us have a deep archetypal layer, and the pain lies in the output of Lupita Nyong. It's a dark and scary film, but in a good way. When discussing the idea of the American dream, which Peele does wonderfully, it facilitates reflections on structural injustice, social disparity and the duality of human existence. &lt;br /&gt;
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As an audience, Peele has our attention, implying that he is able to influence our society. His genius lies in visually translating the experience of oppression, helping us grasp in cinematic terms the attack on the black body. He expands the tradition of experiencing black suffering and questioning the duality of black American life that dates back to the 1896 poem, We Wear The Masks, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Theory Behind Details ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* The Bible verse that constantly appears in the movie (Jeremiah 11:11) reads: &amp;quot;Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* Many main scenes take place on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, much like The Lost Boys (1987). As Adelaide's mother (Anna Diop) says, &amp;quot;You know, they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel.&amp;quot; this is also referenced in the universe. &lt;br /&gt;
* A reference to The Shining is the overhead shot of the Wilsons heading to the holiday home, along with the twins' synchronized voice and mannerisms (1980).&lt;br /&gt;
* The name of the unhelpful virtual assistant of the Tylers, Ophelia, ironically derives from the Greek &amp;quot;ophéleia,&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;help.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
* Jason eats a bowl of dry Froot Loops while the Wilsons are at the Tylers' home. In Jordan Peele's previous film, Get Out (2017), this refers to a scene in which a character eats Froot Loops and drinks milk from &amp;quot;segregated&amp;quot; glasses.&lt;br /&gt;
* The baseball game is at 11-11 tied... And Minnesota is a band. The team from Minnesota is called the Twins.&lt;br /&gt;
* One of the VHS tapes seen near the TV at the beginning of the film is The Man with Two Brains, in line with the film's theme of duality and the notion of two similar parts making up one whole (1983).&lt;br /&gt;
* The name of the kid, Jason, is a nod to the villain of Friday the 13th, Jason, who wears a mask too.&lt;br /&gt;
* It seems that the use of the song I Got 5 On resonates with the film's main theme. It tells of two guys chipping in $5 each to buy a $10 bag of marijuana, which is a mixture of two items making one whole, much like the Tethered themselves, like the scissors and the repetition of number 11 in the movie.&lt;br /&gt;
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# https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019&lt;br /&gt;
# https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/&lt;br /&gt;
# http://udreview.com/six-horror-films-that-address-issues-of-systemic-racism-and-oppression/&lt;br /&gt;
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