Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Untitled (A Naani Poem)
Jack Moebes/Corbis
Joseph
McNeil (from left), Franklin McCain, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson
sit in protest at the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth during the
second day of peaceful protest, Feb. 2, 1960.
If only it could be realised that colours complement and highlight each other! Black and white should lead the way in true yin and yang fashion! It's natural!
As we witness a constant exchange in a mire of vitriol that is promulgated by those who choose to live in that realm, we must remind ourselves of being leaders in deviating from this rather than allowing and following.
7 comments:
is it now a chosen separation? is there still such a divide and how do we cross it?
Oh my goodness, for real, a segregated school lunchroom? What progress indeed?
If only it could be realised that colours complement and highlight each other! Black and white should lead the way in true yin and yang fashion! It's natural!
What is the saying?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Great comment Gemma Wiseman!
As we witness a constant exchange in a mire of vitriol that is promulgated by those who choose to live in that realm, we must remind ourselves of being leaders in deviating from this rather than allowing and following.
It is amazing how much color seperated and divided this country. What a poignant haiku.
wondering what progress!? amazingly intriguing :)
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