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The Scottsboro Boys, no joy in this poem, only a remembrance of another instance of Jim Crow injustice, charges of **** not agape, no sir, these ******* ***** two white women and should be lynched right now. **** trials, get some ropes, no hope for these ******* no sir. Yet, there was a stirring, even in the 1930s, for justice even for black kids in Alabama, trials aplenty, retrials too, a shoe could drop in the courtroom and you couldn't hear it. **** let's get on with it! Where's the rope, you dope! You're white and can't fight your way out of a paper bag. **** you're KKK. You do what you please, at ease with dark nights when we burn them as they twist dead in the wind. Who got the ropes, you ******* Why you wearing that white sheet? **** You don't know how to burn a dead ****** Take off that white sheet now and get the hell out of here cause you doesn't deserve to be among us. You gone--out of the KKK! Get in your pick-up truck and leave now and don't never come back. We'll burn this ****** forever! Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020 at 11:46 PM UTC
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
The Scottsboro Boys, no joy in this poem, only a remembrance of another instance of Jim Crow injustice, charges of **** not agape, no sir, these ******* ***** two white women and should be lynched right now. **** trials, get some ropes, no hope for these ******* no sir. Yet, there was a stirring, even in the 1930s, for justice even for black kids in Alabama, trials aplenty, retrials too, a shoe could drop in the courtroom and you couldn't hear it. **** let's get on with it! Where's the rope, you dope! You're white and can't fight your way out of a paper bag. **** you're KKK. You do what you please, at ease with dark nights when we burn them as they twist dead in the wind. Who got the ropes, you ******* Why you wearing that white sheet? **** You don't know how to burn a dead ****** Take off that white sheet now and get the hell out of here cause you doesn't deserve to be among us. You gone--out of the KKK! Get in your pick-up truck and leave now and don't never come back. We'll burn this ****** forever! Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
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Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020 at 11:46 PM UTC
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