Stand Undiminished — The Poem Taken from my motherland in chains to travel waters unknown by me, to toil in soil unfamiliar to my hands. Forced to speak a language which does not sing. Exploited, enslaved, whipped and hanged. Defined in a constitution as three fifths of a man. I stood beside you in battle …
The Growing Racial Divide In America
In my entry Why Ecuador? I revealed something to the reader that I was not myself aware of until the words were typed upon the screen. Another reason for my being here is that as a Black man who has lived for sixty plus years in America, I am 99.9% positive I will not be …