The Critical Race

Harry Seymour Thursday, February 10 2022 - 5:03pm

An elephant in the classroom / Unheard voices from slavery / So essential to understanding / How past is prelude / To inequities we now see.

An elephant in the classroom
Unheard voices from slavery
So essential to understanding
How past is prelude
To inequities we now see
Like segregated schools
More prevalent than in the 60s
Though seeing is not feeling
Empathy for those struggling
In the critical race about race
With no finish line in sight
As if generation after generation
Procreate racists in afterlives
Amorphously squiggly entities
Not always easy to identify
When few think they are
As if no one is
Much like getting rid of crime
The endgame being to contain
Leaving to generation next
To constitute a majority
In the critical race about race
Armed with a powerful ally
The voices from slavery
History’s gift to children.

Comments

Wow Harry you continue to

Donna Boles NJ/OB

Wow Harry you continue to amaze with your insightful writing and perfectly paired art! This visually depicted piece should be picked up as “spoken” word!

Donna Boles captures fully

Marcie williams

Donna Boles captures fully the scope and dimensions of your creativity

Mr.Seymour your more then a

Edward Redd Oak Bluffs

Mr.Seymour your more then a great artist .You also have a wonderful talent with words, which may lead many to conclude you may have missed your calling.

Such an important idea in

Jill de Villiers Northampton ma

Such an important idea in current discussions, and a beautiful way to illustrate it in art and poetry! Thank you Harry.

Mercy mercy me. Another Harry

Abdur-Rahim Muhammad Washington, DC

Mercy mercy me. Another Harry Seymour gem. The scenes in the painting are powerful, mesmerizing. The words equally as powerful and thought provoking. They'll soon make room for Mr. Seymour's art on the mall in Washington DC in the Museum of African American History.

Harry’s work brilliantly

Jeffrey Cassis West Tisbury/Boston

Harry’s work brilliantly captures the bare essence of the critical race about race conversation in America today. I only hope more people read his work and reflect on how they wish to be judged on what they have done and will do to make a difference.