A Harlem Abecedarian

Poetry

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In light of Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, I thought I would share one of my poems. I believe that King’s fight for integration was to widen the options of Black people for equality in the nation we helped to build.

But the idea that segregation was not ideal is misunderstood. We do not have to exclude others just because a culture has it’s own distinctions. The issue with that for black…