Baltimore

Baltimore.

They came here, the black population, from the south, to get work

In factories and the rate of pay for them the poor from the south,

Was good and a neighbourhood evolved, there was progress and

Peace thriving working class districts. Capitalism is not about safety,

 Shifting luck the industry moved abroad where wages are cheaper,

And where should the people go? Boarded up shops, factories and

 Broken windows, where should the people go? Restless youth no

One has given them any education, where should the people go?

Being black and suffering the stigma of having been sons of slaves to

Break out of the stigma of inferiority is not easy and often its ends

In frustrated and depressed violence.

The black people of Baltimore are suffering the same contempt as my

Parents did  in Norway simply for being working class. Askew is

The capitalist foundation, force into life a socialist party a force if needed

Without compromise, a political transformation.  When politicians say

they work for the middle- class people; we know the black working- class

is  blissfully excluded.