-a rap-

 

We clap some Blacks,

them entertaining Blacks,

on stage, in film and racing tracks

tho' we mow the shacks

and dish out smacks

to those working blacks.

 

We clap them Blacks

and forget them whacks

and the blistered backs

of hands that buy

the music tracks

and then we clap them

Blacks them stand-up Blacks

 

but not them bent over blacks

for earning stacks

of dirty cash

that Bankers stash

and maids they lash

and keep from dash

 

yet we stand and clap

entertaining Blacks

and forget those Hispanics

and blacks

and the low paid

Arabs at Macs and Asians

that stack with Latinos in back

of stores and the lack

of housing and that

and this becomes that

as minimum stays flat.

 

It's always the worker

that's needed as warrior

to die for jack

in the sand and a sack

brings them back

it's you at the back,

always the back

stay put and keep shut,

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I'm talking to you

at the back of the queue,

yes YOU! at the back

get ready to pack...!

 

​words and foto Tommy Carroll

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