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Children's Rhymes

By what sends
the white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
be President.
What don't bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We know everybody
ain't free.
Lies written down
for white folks
ain't for us a-tall:
Liberty And Justice —
Huh! — For All?

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Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.  Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
 



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