Of course, I don't know very much <br />About these politics, <br />But I think that some who run 'em, <br />Do mighty ugly tricks. <br /> <br />I've seen 'em honey-fugle round, <br />And talk so awful sweet, <br />That you'd think them full of kindness <br />As an egg is full of meat. <br /> <br />Now I don't believe in looking <br />Honest people in the face, <br />And saying when you're doing wrong, <br />That 'I haven't sold my race.' <br /> <br />When we want to school our children, <br />If the money isn't there, <br />Whether black or white have took it, <br />The loss we all must share. <br /> <br />And this buying up each other <br />Is something worse than mean, <br />Though I thinks a heap of voting, <br />I go for voting clean.<br /><br />Frances Ellen Watkins Harper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aunt-chloe-s-politics/
