Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ...

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