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Jackie Robinson

“But as I write these words now I cannot stand and sing the National Anthem. I have learned that I remain a black in a white world.”

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2021, the 74 anniversary of Robinson’s historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Today, one of the great sights in baseball: an entire league wearing No. 42 as a tribute to the man who broke baseball’s color barrier. But the quote from his autobiography shows he clearly understood and felt the racial injustice in America. As you remember him remember the next Jackie Robinson may be murdered before he has a chance to contribute to the world simply because he’s Black.

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Black History Month

History doesn’t matter to the man who has to feed his family tomorrow. What matters are the actions he must take today.

This banner was flown by the NAACP’s NYC office from 1920-1938 every time a black person was lynched I’m America. Even once was too much. Most importantly, we most stop the continued “lynchings”.

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What You Meant

Don’t
smell the air around me
Put your lips upon my neck
Breathe faster
when I walk into the room
Let your eyes follow me
Replay the sun
sneaking past the shades
to shine on my body
We are just friends.

Don’t
consider your hands
encircling my waist
Your fingertips
tracing my inner thigh
The shape of my buttocks
That sigh was just a sigh
Time will go by
Walk into the dessert
After all, we should be friends.

You’ve so much to do
Why consider
you hurt me or I you
All’s fair in insecurity
compromise too dear
It’s good we end as friends.

Is that what you meant?