<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thr Railroad Tracks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who lived across the railroad tracks? <br>A few of us whites, but mostly blacks.<br>These railroad tracks without even knowing<br>separated my town and kept it growing<br>into a segregated place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I used to listen for the sound of the train.<br>As it rolled on by, it would never remain.<br>It just kept rolling to where it was going.<br>The engineer waved. The smoke kept blowing<br>into a segregated place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even when the trains stopped the rolling<br>the tracks will still there.They were controlling<br>the thinking of the people in our town.<br>So they kept the tracks there, never tore them down<br>in our segregated place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some were on the right side of the tracks, you see.<br>Some were on the wrong side of the tracks, like me.<br>They never took the tracks down from 60 years ago.<br>And the town I grew up in doesn't want to know<br>it's a segregated place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382962" data-title="Thr Railroad Tracks de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Who lived across the railroad tracks? A few of us whites, but mostly blacks. These railroad tracks without even knowing separated my town and kept it growing into a segregated place. I used to listen for the sound of the train. As it rolled on b..."></div> </div> </div>

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