She minds her own business,
      not one to be where she is not wanted...
Walked away from many relationships
     Confrontation is futile!
          from husbands -
                  to casual acquaintances
not one to "bark up a dead dog's ***".
Simply won't fight - seen too much....
Instead -
      She'll smile at strangers
           say excuse me
               walk around...
Yet while she tries to focus on the positive
        out of the mouth of one no older than three
            clear as a bell
*****!
she pauses - not wanting to believe what she heard
Four more times
*****!
     *****!
         *****!
             *****!
The "mother" doesn't try to quiet or even correct the child
Too cowardly to acknowledge the hurt in the eyes of a total stranger.
      White passers by giggled...
She looked at the baby-
      pure hatred looked back.
With a shake of her head she walked away...
So evil - to each a baby to hate.
    who teaches a baby to hate?
       That, to her, is true obscenity....
The overwhelming sadness of it all
   Makes it difficult to function
        yet another day
            in a society that denies
     racism
        still
            exists!