“Black and Brown Fight Tonight”
By David A. Romero [Excerpt]
Black
African-American
By way of West Africa
Transatlantic slave trade
From American plantations
To the first private prison
From the prisons to the fields
Fields to the factories
Factories to unemployment
Unemployment to poverty
The inner city
Smoldering
Almost no way out
But
Sports
Conditioning
Fists
Flying.
“Black and Brown Fight Tonight” is included in My Name Is Romero, a book of poetry by David A. Romero, published by FlowerSong Press of McAllen, TX. My Name Is Romero is available now at http://www.flowersongpress.com.
David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press 2020), a book reviewed by Gustavo Arellano (¡Ask a Mexican!), Curtis Marez (University Babylon), and founding member of Ozomatli, Ulises Bella. Romero has appeared at over seventy-five colleges and universities in over thirty different states in the USA. Learn more at http://www.davidaromero.com
