Elizabeth Jennings Graham, hit em with the boom bam in 1854, made every civil rights recipient applaud, even my great great uncle named Claude, cause of her, he got to ride on a New York City streetcar. Another strong woman with bass in her voice like Maude, pointing out the cracks in the system, that’s why it’s flawed, and the people that run it are frauds. She must have gave Rosa Parks her spark, it wasn’t one person that gave our civil rights it’s start, bravery throughout time helped us climb without dropping a bomb, while making pennies to their dimes, and still committing less crimes; in retrospect after listening to my grandmother reflect, we owe generations before us big time respect.
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Amen.
so true, dear Poet
(yet Rosa's story, a little more
politically polished by posterity)
than Miss Graham
and her legacy, of teaching children
that freedom, began
in the classroom!
it's heroes like her
that insured the miracle
of a people
enslaved for centuries
and belittled for being illiterate
manged to scale
societies, steep hills
to become a majority, literate people
in less than a century
a feat of human collective ambition, surpassing
all expectations
'freed black', were more literate
than their previous slave owners in the south
while still being oppressed and marginalised..
and all because visionaries like Miss Graham
established kindergartens and schools
so early...
now look at us
a million, millionaire sports stars
and Hollywood sell-out's
yet barely a thousand schools or grants established between them all
so sad to contemplate
(that you're related to her
makes me proud to have met your
empowering words)
Glad you enjoyed; but we have to remember our superheroes
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