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Being the only black (at work) sitting in a cubical in the back, allows one to hear
What Caucasians, Asians, and other racial persuasions do and say whenever we ain’t near
Gone is the guard, long disappears the fear
Most times, I’m just quietly working in PowerPoint and Excel
When they whisper or blurt out some racist $#!+, I’m like what the hell?
Occasionally I have to intervene when they the start to cause a scene
Doing our dances and saying, ‘Guurrl’, ‘Ratchet’, ‘Bae’, ‘Bye Felica’ or ‘Yassss Queen’
Other times I cringe when they tend to offend
When one’s true colors emerge, it’s too hard to pretend
During President Obama’s election and re-election
They’d hem and haw in their biased reflection
Now with Trump they vomit all the fake news they hear on TV as gospel
Trevon was high on weed, Sandra Bland they still don’t understand, and Black unemployment is at its lowest level in decades, how it that awful?
Their reasoning and justification is completely logical – not!
Because they’ve never been turned down for a job or a loan (for being white) or been harassed by a cop
But it’s not my place to educate my boss and others who control my corporate fate
So I just give them the Samuel L. Jackson face whenever they discriminate
Snakes on a Plane, Do the Right Thing, and Patriot Games, with a Nick Fury take
Dead stare, foul cowl, says, ‘get the F… outta here,’ like Django Unchained
Make them ashamed with a John Shaft wrath, white bread is you insane?
