Blacks+shuned

This poem shows that during and after the times of slavery blacks were shuned from American society. The line, "Your door is shut against my tightend face," means that blacks did not have a voice in the U.S. For example blacks were never included in juries and were also not allowed in many predomanant restaurants. When blacks approached houses in white neighborhoods doors slammed and kids were brought often brought inside. This often occured until the Civil Rights Movement occured. After this many things such as the Jim Crow Laws were abolished and blacks were able to have a voice in our society. The poets highest purpose of this pem was for people to be aware of not just the brutality of slavery, but the racism which occured throughout the U.S. and even past the Civil Rights Movement to present day.