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John Hartness
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There’s a white man painted crimson
with a black boy’s blood
ducking bricks in the streets of Port-Au-Prince
while white women cross the streets of Manhattan
to get away from the black millionaire
in his thug life costume and glittered grill.
There’s a white man staring at a statue
in an Atlanta park
looking at the White House
with a black man in it
and thinking this isn’t the country he knew.
There’s a black champion on the side of a river in Louisville
watching his medal sink in the water
because in 1960 Kentucky a champ
is still a boy.
But on a playground in South Carolina
there’s a timid little white kid
standing scared by the fence
wondering where his momma went
until a chubby black girl with pigtails and pink barrettes
leads him to the seesaw
and he makes a colorblind friend.

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