![]() ![]() The second poem is written for Trayvon Martin, and the third for James Craig Anderson. The first poem focuses on Hurricane Katrina and the government's and public's failure to help the poor black communities most devastated by the storm. ![]() Rankine describes an incident in which a white friend refers to the subject by the wrong name: “Haven’t you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life” (7). Chapter 6 is a series of poems that deal with different incidents involving the black community. ![]() The subject takes an inventory of their physical sensations after experiencing a racist encounter. Moving away from the memory of the two girls, Rankine describes a more embodied feeling: “Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue, and clog the lungs” (7). The subject recalls these two little girls, thinking with muted sadness about how the little white girl cheated without punishment. The white girl cheats from the black girl’s schoolwork. The subject is then a young black girl at Catholic school who has an encounter with a white girl. ![]() Philip and James School on White Plains Road and the girl sitting in the seat behind you asks you to lean to the right during exams so she can copy what you have written” (5). Rankine describes the subject’s experience in Catholic school when they were twelve years old: “You are twelve attending Sts. ![]()
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