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Race Card

You ask indignantly, why must I go there — mucking around ... bumping up the sound You say I’m just trying to be a troublemaker, and you place a sure bet that trouble is all I’m gonna get If I keep playing the race card, playing the race card Keep using the black spade, digging up dirt in the legal courtyard But, I must use the race card, use that black spade card Getting to the hidden truth buried deep is hard What have we got to lose, we were told It was a hard speech, ` given what my people is owed We lost everything: our native home, our native tongue Our God-given name Whited bones of human degradation lay in this cemetery of history Beneath that rotting soil, somewhere lay my stolen heritage For truth’s sake, I must know where it’s hid So I went and searched — Behind a plantation house of cards, buried beneath the slave quarters ... my race to the truth has led me there Why must I go there? If you were holding the same losing, marked card I’ve held, would you then care?

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Arthur Vaso

Date: 6/23/2017 8:45:00 PM

This is such a contemplative poem, and when you make the reader think, then you played the race card very well, the human race card! Bravo!

Daniel Turner

Date: 6/23/2017 6:12:00 PM

I have written a few poems about race Freddie None as good as yours. If you'd like to read them they are "Who's to Blame" "Discrimination" those two come to me off the top. We haven't learned that much in 2000 years. Slavery is still taking place as we speak. Powerful write my friend:)

Chris Green

Date: 6/23/2017 2:54:00 PM

This is very smooth my friend and relevant. You have expressed your thoughts very cool, a little edgy but a deep understanding as well. Oh...and no one can call me a racist, I'm not even in to NASCAR.

Charlie Smith

Date: 6/23/2017 1:50:00 PM

A proud declaration of will, no one can take that away, well done Freddie...

Freddie Robinson Jr.
Date: 6/23/2017 2:12:00 PM

Ty, Charlie. Your levity of understanding is very humbling to me. Trying to find a part of your soul that is missing is very disheartening. But, God has comforted us all, that is my source of peace. Hate ain't the way. Love always, brother.