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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Negro Schools</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please be silent now, my country, while I fill the speaker's place;<br>While I point out some abuses that we constantly embrace,<br>Listen with your best attention to the words that I shall say,<br>How the Negro schools are managed, in this Commonwealth today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the officers are white men and together they conspire,<br>To undo the schools for Negroes, of such deeds they never tire;<br>Oft we find among the trustees men who cannot read a word,<br>But when speaking of the Negro, they are certain to be heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Education for the Negro they discourage, and they say,<br>'It will bring dissatisfaction to such people ev'ry day,<br>Make them crave for something higher, such as white men should enjoy,<br>Which will spoil the other Negroes that we have in our employ.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shorter terms are recommended many times as low as two<br>Are the months to Negroes given, in a year—now this is true,<br>Longer terms the whites are given in the same communities—<br>They conform to such a standard of the right with perfect ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poorer pay to Negro teachers, driving good ones from the field,<br>Schools are let to lowest bidders to the same they're forced to yield,<br>Higher pay and better teachers for the white schools is the cry.<br>While encouragement is given Negro schools to starve and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rural libraries established for the whites on ev'ry side,<br>But when application's made for Negro schools it is denied,<br>Thus they deal with education for the mass of Negro youth,<br>Posing still as great exponents and conservers of the truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the sword of fierce Goliath we may all a lesson learn,<br>How while planning death to others on your head it may return,<br>In regard to schools for Negroes, cease their welfare to neglect,<br>For the same will come upon you in a way you least expect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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