The Day the Kettle Called Me Black-Back

the day the kettle called me black-back,
we had some thing in common
"them drugs never lied,
and triggers don't pull them selves.
time never turned a wife into a whore,
hate never told the blinded racist minds to abhor."
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Palmer Avatar
August 13, 2012 at 8:55 PM
YEAH LOT TO PONDER ABOUT,great write Angelo
Pierre Louis Avatar
August 15, 2012 at 3:07 PM
thank you
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