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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SharonCrockett@toot.community ("Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists") wrote:

From Langston Hughes poem "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"

"You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power
And you're STILL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.

Yet you say you're fighting
For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?

I ask you this question
Cause I want to know
How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER and JIM CROW."

#langstonhughes #ww2 #blacksinww2 #poetry #blackpoets