"You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity — you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence, contacts with powerful and influential people — then stay in the dark and use it!" - Ralph Ellison Author of 'Invisible Man' the greatest novel of the 20th Century
You seem surprised that we are invisible
Could we be otherwise? the very idea it is risible
Newton, 'The' student of the lights
Made it clear
The rainbow combined glows white
The essence of all that is dear
While the presence of darkness like night
Signs the unknown, the ill-formed and the feared
Like the moon, our world is unrevealed
In an eternal noon, where even shadows are concealed
Douglas, ran Prometheus' race
Again and again, to the Harbour of Grace
Henrik, defined a nation to replace
A colour that does not exist in any face
And still you wonder we are not seen in this place
When again and again you choose rhetoric and eschew race
You seem surprised that we are invisible
Could we be otherwise?
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