Math Milestones for Blacks

Let's workshop this poem about how, in a culture where being a victim is a noble asset that brings with it great social capital, we will be swayed to interpret uplifting efforts in a negative light

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Math Milestones for Blacks

Singing rapture
into crippled forms 
to uplift them—if only 
by sparking a drive to dig

deeper—is construed, 
in a victim era 
of righteous mediocrity,
as an insensitive taunt

against the marginalized
(a supremacist ploy even) 
rather than as love
for all mankind.

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