by Felicia Nimue Ackerman
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| — The New York Times, May 9, 2025 |
If you're African and white,
Trump is keen to ease your plight.
If you lack this racial clout,
Trump is keen to keep you out.
Felicia Nimue Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has around 340 poems in places including American Atheist, The American Scholar, Better Than Starbucks, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Down in the Dirt, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Free Inquiry, Light Poetry Magazine, Lighten Up Online, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times. She has also had twelve previous poems in The New Verse News.
