Landmarks Challenge
Harlem
L & O
Paul Robinett
The streets of Harlem assault him with half forgotten sounds and smells.
Children in rags play stick ball, curse, pause in their game to watch the tall, well dressed brother as he passes. Some of them, narrow-eyed, calculate the odds of rolling him in an alley. He sees himself at their age--the same rack thiness, the same games, the same thoughtful craftiness.
How far he'd run--from the mean streets to the D.A.'s office. Yet the question--Stone's question--brought him back: "Are you a black man who is a lawyer, or a lawyer who happens to be black?"
As yet he hears no answer.
L & O
Paul Robinett
The streets of Harlem assault him with half forgotten sounds and smells.
Children in rags play stick ball, curse, pause in their game to watch the tall, well dressed brother as he passes. Some of them, narrow-eyed, calculate the odds of rolling him in an alley. He sees himself at their age--the same rack thiness, the same games, the same thoughtful craftiness.
How far he'd run--from the mean streets to the D.A.'s office. Yet the question--Stone's question--brought him back: "Are you a black man who is a lawyer, or a lawyer who happens to be black?"
As yet he hears no answer.