Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD'S BRANDED CHILD, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER


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GOD'S BRANDED CHILD, by                    
First Line: Singed / by god
Last Line: Since I am black?
Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


Singed
By God
Before my birth
Till I was black;

Lynched
In courts
After birth
Because I'm black

Must
I suffer
After death
Since I am black?





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