Why of all the many races in the country where we live, <br />Do we find so little union as the Negro race can give? <br />Is it lack of love? or color? who will give the reason true, <br />Why they cherish opposition more than other peoples do? <br /> <br />We'll examine for a moment, how the Negro race is made, <br />Now, we find them all complexions, any hue and ev'ry shade, <br />Scraps of all the human races in among them we can find, <br />All the many dispositions, ev'ry nation of its kind. <br /> <br />Ev'ry tribe will hang together, though among the Negroes found, <br />Which will bring about dissensions, on all questions that abound, <br />Ev'ry blood must have a 'say so,' red or yellow, white or black, <br />Differ always in opinion, racial union always lack. <br /> <br />Hark! the whites of this assembly to a special plan agree, <br />Lo! the red men now are holding their opinion, don't you see? <br />Aye, the blacks must have a hearing in the question of today, <br />Yellow folks compose a factor and the same will have a say. <br /> <br />Scripture tells how Ham was tickled by the shame of Noah's plight, <br />How his brothers with a mantle shielded Noah from the light, <br />Now we find that Ham's descendants keep disgraces well exposed, <br />While the children of the others keep a shameful secret closed. <br /> <br />From inheritance the Negro gets his levity and mirth, <br />More than any other species of the races of the earth, <br />He rejoices in reporting what will bring his neighbor shame, <br />Charity extends her mantle and the others cover blame. <br /> <br />When the race discards the fragments, by the others thrown aside, <br />And suppresses altogether sinful levity and pride, <br />Then begins a cultivation of a union of the race, <br />That will strengthen all its borders which for naught will yield apace.<br /><br />Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-negroes-don-t-unite/
