POLITICAL POEM
Our Cities Have No Place for Bigots
We must clean house — and elect those who lead by example
“The place in which I live will not fit unless I make it.”
— James Baldwin
We have a lot of work to do
to weed out the chaff;
bigots cannot represent us,
backroom racists can’t plan our agendas —
these politicians have to go!
We have to clean up our cities and towns,
make our lives free of prejudice —
if that means a lie detector test,
employing a mole with a wire,
or emploring the good people
to rat on their brothers — we will.
Corruption comes in many forms,
betraying us in leadership positions —
for it is the narrow-minded who impede our growth;
it is those we have to disempower —
leaders who are biased against people of color.
We don’t need bad cops, but law-abiding ones.
We don’t need self-serving civil servants
but public officials who represent our community —
and lead by example.
