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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MENTAL HORIZONS: 5. PROFESSOR WHITEPRIDE-RACE PREJUDICE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON
First Line: Anon approaches a critical sage
Last Line: "whether jap or german, swede or kurd!"
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry
First Line: Anon approaches a critical sage
Last Line: "whether jap or german, swede or kurd!"
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry
Anon approaches a critical sage,
Unrolling the record from age to age,
And cries in a cold and cynical whine,
"My brotherhood stops with the color line—
The Anglo-Saxon race for me—
The race that was and is to be;
Down with the rest, a mongrel herd,
Whether Jap or German, Swede or Kurd!"
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