Ladies and gentlement: in 1960,
when I started school in Wichita Falls,
it was on the Air Force Base,
so I was shielded, what with its
being integrated, from much of what
Jim Crow meant in the rest of the town,
yet it wasn’t long until I saw
on TV, a cross in Alabama,
people set upon,
and, little boy that I was,
couldn’t help knowing how wrong.
Then of course, Mr. Evers was murdered
in Jackson, and if it hadn’t been
before, now it was fully on.
Well today, with a racist
and completely lawless president,
we’re right at a crossroads again,
one where it’s the obligation
of every Constitution-following American
to confront and oppose him
in every unlawful or unconstitutional
action he proposes or takes,
but in each and every case,
ourselves to do so both legally
and constitutionally, and to continue
to do so until such time as his term ends
or he be impeached, convicted, and gone.
This is the real patriotic way.
David Stevenson
Farmington
