Negro Poem

Negro is a Langston Hughes's poem.

I am not black and I am not white. I'm Brazilian and, the most importantly, a human being.

I like Negro poem, because it is about the a important part of the Humanity History: the stupidity and cruelty of racism and, mainly, the absence of ethics - respect for others.

I'm a worker. Many times, the workers are modern slaves. 

Then I identify with this poetry.

Negro

I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.

I’ve been a slave:
Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.
I brushed the boots of Washington.

I’ve been a worker:
Under my hand the pyramids arose.
I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.

I’ve been a singer:
All the way from Africa to Georgia
I carried my sorrow songs.
I made ragtime.

I’ve been a victim:
The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.
They lynch me still in Mississippi.

I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.