Brothers

By E Gene Givens

"BROTHERS," are the common observations made on the author's travels and visits to cities in North America; Hawaii; Alaska; Canada; Central American; Korea; Germany; and the Caribbean, by a person of color. It provides a perspective of the black community, to include unemployment; poverty; welfare; the black musical experience; and a point of view concerning the Anti-black racism that has been present in this country since its founding. It provides commentary concerning the fact that black people were forcibly brought to this country; however, when asked the questions “who belongs in this nation?” and “to whom does this nation belong?”America’s answer has been consistently, and overwhelmingly – white people, even though we are one humanity, and the USA is still just one people, which has caused black people, and others communities, to continually march and protest to bring visibility to this injustice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664134782

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BROTHERS

I Used To Say …

Lines …

Three Piece Suit And Unemployed

On Being Cool

*Pool Of Bethesda

And They Gathered

Pipe Dreams

Compliments

Perseverance

Like Wild Horses …

This Is Not An Observation – Part I

This Is Not An Observation – Part Ii

Until I Am No Longer A Man

Glacier Hwy – Mile Marker 42

Gray Edges

The Viewing

Edwina, Al, And Me: Live At The Hobbit

Nubian Refuge

Tomorrow

Live At The Hobbit

Jazz-Merized

Leaning On Air

Waiting On The Lord

Brothers – Part I

Brothers - Part Ii

A Picture Rockwell Never Painted

A Formula For Change

Nigritude

The Supervisor

Korea: Land Of The Morning Calm

Ten Clicks From The Dmz

Colors

Inheritance

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications in which the following poems also appeared:

• A Picture Rockwell Never Painted, Windows On The World, Vol 2, Summer 1991, The National Library of Poetry, Owings, MD.

• And They Gathered …, Athenaeum, Page 22, Volume, LXIV, Number 1, Winter 1979, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH; and in Pierian Spring, October 1991, Mile High Poetry Society, Denver, CO.

• Glacier Hwy – Mile Marker 42, Select American Poetry, Page 22, Vol 1, Phoenix Publications, Atlanta, GA.

• Gray Edges, Voices On the Wind, Vol II, Winter 1989, The Poet’s Corner, Baltimore, MD.

• Jazz-merized, Wide Open Magazine, Summer 1991, Wide Open Magazine, Santa Rosa, CA.

• Lines; Live Writers! Local On Tap, Page 24, Vol 1, Number 1, La Reina Press, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, 1979; and