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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435923" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From the Black Perspective</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why don't you write more from the 'Black' perspective? <br>Or the African-American point of view.<br>Perhaps from the 'Negro' in you.<br>You have several points of view, <br>From which to choose.<br>Why aren't your depictions more from this experience? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You mean...<br>The isolation and pain? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yeasss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The oppression I've endured, <br>With little gain to claim? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! Yes, yes, yes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My feelings of discrimination, <br>Racism and hatred? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ooooohhh...Yesssss! Yes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That bitterness within me.<br>For being 'Black'? <br>And carrying it on my back.<br>With a torment that rips my soul? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, please. More, more, more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The hunger, the poverty.<br>The homelessness expressed...<br>Within my people that keeps us divided, <br>In a separateness? <br>The misery, the tears.<br>The sleeplessness for wishing to be white? <br>And the fears of being a Black man, <br>With no allies in sight? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh...I feel your anguish! <br>So tragic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My need to tap dance to gain public acceptance? <br>Regardless of my burdens, tribulations and suffering? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please stop this.<br>You have driven me to tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well...<br>To answer your question, <br>I haven't given that much thought.<br>However...<br>When and if I change my mind, <br>I'll give you a call.<br>You seem to be more empathetic about that, <br>Than I am! <br>Nobody but me pays my bills.<br>And my creditors could care less, <br>How I sign my money orders or checks.<br>Like everybody else...<br>They just want to get paid.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is that it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's it! <br>That's how I feel about it.<br>And I am free to complain and whin if I choose.<br>Just like you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>Thanks anyway.<br>I was hoping for a deeper, <br>More 'probing' insight! <br>I'm writing a thesis for my doctorate.<br>And I was hoping you would co-operate, <br>With more venom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What are you seeking? <br>To be attacked? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, no.<br>Why? <br>Do I look as if I'm wishing to be seduced?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=435923" data-title="From the Black Perspective de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Why don't you write more from the 'Black' perspective? Or the African-American point of view. Perhaps from the 'Negro' in you. You have several points of view, From which to choose. Why aren't your depictions more from this experience? 'You me..."></div> </div> </div>
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