Citizen Robert Smalls
In etteen hunned and sitty et, they let colored vote. I go line up on election day and talk to eboddy and make up my own mind and vote. Like a human bean.
The whites was so damn mad they let the colored vote aint hardly none of em come out and vote theyseff. Which who care, is how I feel. They mo of us an they is of them anyway, so how they goin outvote us?
Anyway, we lect Robert Smalls to go to the convention, and he tell me they mos of the people at that convention is colored. It like a black pahdise, he say, how the Laud done set thing aright at last. Most the folk in the stet be colored, and they finally got colored makin the law.
And Smalls he say they goin have school for all the chillun, colored and po white too, that it in the Constitution now. Which, how people goin send they chap to school when they need em work in the field with em? But that Robert, he aint think like you and me.
I aint hardly blame him for it, and I reckon that why I love him so, he a good man, that true. But you got yo dream world what they preach bout in chuch, and you got yo real world. You know zactly what I mean. And aint nobody evuh really live in that dream world. We all gots to live in the real world, all I sayin.
That all I got to say. I love the man. I really do. He a fine man, only you go up to Columbia in yo fine carriage and yo fine suit of clothes and making constitution and what not, and you ain really nothing but a colored boy no matter how much you dream.
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