There remains nothing
new under the sun.
Though we are said to be free,
freedom is yet to be won
for my people and me.
Racism and its mistress,
abject bigotry,
have never been
like distant strangers
to my people and me.
They’ve been coming at us
like evil power rangers.
The Black Codes, Jim Crow,
and the Klan,
we’ve always had to face,
fight, and beat.
The only difference today,
is that their main reigning man,
comes torching at the hued race
without wearing his hooded sheet.