tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11271668.post-1116474720359042342005-05-18T23:47:00.000-04:002005-07-29T08:13:00.413-04:00I never lived in Africa.<br />I never led a tribe.<br />I never poached a man and sold him to a trader.<br /><br />I never owned a plantation.<br />I never wore a hood.<br />I never dragged a negro out of bed with a flashlight and a shotgun.<br /> <br />I don’t care if you sit in the front. <br />I don’t care if you vote. <br />I don’t care where you eat, drink, live, learn, shop, <br />or how you pray. <br /><br />Never in my life did I spit at anyone,<br />refuse them service, <br />or call them nigger.<br /><br />I never thought you were less.<br />I never thought you were more.<br />I never thought I knew Your Kind.<br /><br />I don’t laugh at the jokes. <br />I don’t cross the street.<br />I don’t lower my voice when I say Black,<br />and I am not afraid of Strong Black Women.<br /><br />I never kept you from wanting more.<br />I never told you to take less.<br />I never stopped you from going to work.<br /><br />I didn’t give up your virginity when you were twelve. <br />I didn’t drop you out of school.<br />I didn’t shoot your father, <br />beat your mother, <br />shake your baby, <br />or pimp your sister.<br />I never jabbed a needle in your arm.<br /><br />I’m a Cracker bitch because I don’t give you a hand up? <br /><br />Sister, I never stood on your fingers.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sallybacchetta.com/" target="_blank">Sally Bacchetta</a> 2005<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11271668-111647472035904234?l=sallypoetry.blogspot.com'/></div>Sally Bacchettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14765341603688023981noreply@blogger.com7