Saturday, January 13, 2018

January 13: Danez Smith, "dream where every black person is standing by the ocean"

You know, it's difficult living in the United States right now.

Yesterday, all of the news organizations were covering a story about Donald Trump discussing immigration, and he characterized Haiti and El Salvador and some African nations as "shithole countries."

Donald Trump and his followers do not speak for me or my family or my friends or my country.  He is an anomaly who, unfortunately, is in a position of great power at the moment.  He's also an illiterate racist.

Saint Marty thinks it is time to remove Donald Trump.  #trumpistheshithole

dream where every black person is standing by the ocean

by:  Danez Smith

& we say to her
          what have you done with our kin you swallowed?

& she says
          that was ages ago, you've drunk them by now

& we don't understand

& then one woman, skin dark as all of us
          walks to the water's lip, shouts Emmett, spits

&, surely, a boy begins
         crawling his way to shore 


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