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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  • Sheila M on May 25, 2009

    As all your writes seem to be ~ very thought provoking, making us pause to think

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