Friday, August 21, 2015
Northern Race
Thus Falleth
When Dartmouth won the Ivy Basketball Championship,
Jiffy Horter brought the other two managers to our
Massachusetts Swim Club.
One black, and the genial center of any group he was in.
At a far table, Hoddings Cartwright led the whispered toast with
lemonade. “Thus falleth the last bastion of Northern Segregation!”
Uh huh? No big deal. And he agreed.
In his Audi later, though, sobs caught at him.
In case you think merely prejudice.
Heartfelt tradition too!
Labels: Dartmouth, Ivy League, Northern Segregation, prejudice, Race, Race and Tradition, racial prejudice, swim club
Friday, May 15, 2015
Other
I know it’s a statistical impossibility, but everyone
else in the waiting room of Baltimore’s Amtrak Station
is Chinese.
When my New York train is called, I gather my things
and join the line going down the stairway to the tracks.
They’ve beaten me to it, the old people the fastest!
Those lingering about the rear look like menacing
wrestlers, but are most polite.
“We ask, please, you get other train.”
Labels: Baltimore, New York, politeness, racial prejudice
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
The South–-in process of rising
-Not enough they done already, now this
disease!
-E Freakin Bola!
-Sounds like one of thems weird names
in phone book.
-You want ‘em have separate one?
-Nah, you can tell.
-Well...don’t catch it!
-Their final gift?
Labels: Ebola", Race, racial prejudice, South
