This is a repost from my Cary Academy blog;
During US Government Politics & Political Theory, we watched a West Wing episode from the first season, Six Meetings Before Lunch. (Supposedly, that title is a reference to Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, where the White Queen says to Alice, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”) We finished in Chapter 3, entitled $1.7 Trillion, about slavery reparations, and it reminded me of a poem that I had written almost forty years ago:
fellow honky
A big jump we got
lived two and three centuries dragging chains
they never lost
forty acres and two ass
they never got
no landrush lot
Big jump we got
Ten decades and more it’s built up
prosperity for our children
Inherent right? Right.
we’ve inherited gift and debt
brother ofay
Pretty soon
we have to pay.
–1972
