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Look, Daddy, a Negro!

CEE

Shameful Secret Time:
It’s the summer of the Watts riots
Mom takes me for a new pair of shoes
The young shoe clerk is a black man
And, I had Never seen anyone Not Like Me
And Mom was a little na•ve
And forgot little things like that,
Like telling your kid
The things you hadn’t thought about
Since the days of Amos and Andy (on radio!),
The young clerk is getting me fitted
And Mom sees me studying his face
And it hits her, and she tries to think of something
But freezes, goes up on the mic,
And I, not yet 4, ask an innocent question
Which I won’t write down,
As I only really got to like “Me”
After I grew to be an asshole,
The young man quietly answers in the affirmative
And Mom, writhing, makes broken small talk
About his job,
And she bought the shoes
And she took me home
And I learned something, that day
Like Stan and Kyle,
I grew up, however, to be Cartman
I fucking-hate race
The Human Race, read my lips, Joe Louis
The Human Race

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