Campus Racism A Special Report: Disillusioned In The Promised Land

June, 1989

Here's some verse from one of many fliers that were slipped under the doors of various University of Michigan black students last year:Nigger, nigger, go away,For the white man is here to stay.Everywhere you look,Everywhere you'll seeThe menacing branches of a tree.And from that tree,What do we see?The beautiful sight of my friends and me,Laughing at your dangling feet.So be forewarnedAnd do be scared,For I, nigger child, will see you there.Take your black asses back to Africa,Before it's too la...

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