A poem about a white boy in a white private school who has come to love many of the aspects of black culture.
I am a black man magic man
At my school I play fools
While I am the fool
To let them play
Those silly games
Call each other names
At school
I am a black man magic man fool
Left alone for my likes
Although my skin is white
My heart lies with the culture that
Is not to be thought or entertained
At school
They are the white man legend man
White like me
And they do what they do
Sitting in pews
Outside their eyes are niggers and Jews
The man inside don’t understand no Langston Hughes
It’s like magic to them
But it appears on tests
At school
There is no difference out in the world
White skin black skin pimp skin purple skin
We are the same wearing different skins
Yet cultures are learned
And cultures are tought
And some of them bought
Often at school
And I play the fool
For being brought into a culture
That isn’t white?
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