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how do you raise a black child?
cortney lamar charleston
-- with a nod to claire kageyama-ramakrishnan
from the dead. with pallbearers who are half as young
as their faces suggest and twice the oxen they should be.
without a daddy at all, or with a daddy in prison, or at home,
or in a different home. with a mama. with a grandmama
if mama ain't around, maybe even if she is. in a house, or not.
in the 1. in the suburbs if you're smart or not afraid of white
fear or even if you are. taking risks. scratching 2 tickets.
making big bets. on a basketball court. inside a courtroom.
poorly in the ever-pathological court of opinion. on faith. like
a prayer from the 3 of a whale. in church on sunday morning,
on monday, tuesday, and every other. before school and after.
in a school you hope doesn't fail. in a school of thought named
for frederick douglass. old school or not at all. with hip-hop or
without. at least with a little curtis mayfield, some motown,
sounds by sam cooke. eating that good down-home cooking.
putting some wood to their behind. with a switch. with a belt
to keep their pants high. not high all the time. on all-time highs
at all times until they learn not to feel and think so lowly of
their aims. to be six feet tall and not under. with a little elbow
grease and some duct tape. sweating bullets. on a short 4.
away from the big boys on the block. away from the boys in blue.
without the frill of 5. from the dead, again. like a flag.
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