Not Easy Being Green in Meredith College Colton Review

It's Not Easy Being Green_Edited (for Colton Review) [somethin about the recession and there's not a lot of room bla bla bla lol]
By Kay Rich

It’s not easy BEING green.
All these PSA’s on TV talking
about going green, being green.
Think green thoughts. Do green things!
But how can a woman go green
when she’s STUCK in a 9-to-5 job,
working for the minimum wage
of the green-dead-presidents she’ll never really see?
If any green, she has the envy
of all those who have because she has—NOT.
Without the green of this nation,
all she is left with is this green earth,
BUT
how can she support the green earth
when all she does have the green for
is cheap things?
Is it her fault she is FORCED
to buy
green Jello, canned green beans, and green Koolaid
because those are more AFFORDABLE than
green melon, fresh green beans, and green tea?
Is it her fault she is FORCED
to buy food that makes
her green veins pump at a high-pressure rate?
Will she someday
look prematurely green
like those dead presidents she never even saw?
So as I check her out
during a shift on a job I need
to get these green-dead-presidents
to pay for my supposedly
“green textbooks,”
I count the green she hands me,
so my register will not be short,
so my company can stay in the
BLACK,
the only time you ever see black
associated with that kind of green.
Well, in fact,
my company has always truly been green…
Green was always easy for them; it was simple.
They bought green vegetables from green-greedy farmers
who used workers like the woman
who receives BELOW minimum green-dead-presidents’ wage
ALL because she has no green card.
So as she breaks her back picking
green lettuce, green cabbage, green turnips,
green beans, and green peppers,
she has to write letters
to her kids back home telling them,
“It’s not easy being GREEN!”
I MEAN,
when is the last time
our Homeland Security Advisory
has even spelled green?
The government officials
pursue rumors of weapons of mass destruction,
wear green berets and green fatigues
jump prematurely
into one war, now pulling out, going into another
all over green money, oil, and greed.
Now we are being told that nuclear power is green,
And the Department of Homeland Security
Shouting,
“IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN.”



(Originally a little longer and intended as spoken word)

Black Emphasis Month Worship Service 2010

Untitled by Kay Rich

My great-great-grandparents

And my great-grandparents

And my grandparents

Carried on the slave traditions of

Back breaking work out in the sun scorched fields

So that my parents

And my sister and I

And our unborn children

Can perform American positions of

Mind muddling work in air conditioned comfortable offices

I’ve never had calloused hands from picking cotton

Just writer’s cramp from writing an essay exam

I’ve never had hunger pains from not having enough to eat

Just the occasional tummy ache from obscure cafeteria food

I’ve never had to work hard at practicing passive resistance

Just small repercussions from a smart mouth and short temper

I’ve never been hosed down for marching for the right to vote

Just my first vote casted towards the first black president

I’m in the Promise Land

Without had having to run around the wilderness

I see the strong beginning of victory

But I didn’t see the desperate struggle

I’m reaping the fruit

Of trees of life I didn’t plant

No, I am the fruit

Of all those who sprung root and refused to let go

My ancestors fought

So I could have the right

To fight

My middle class battles

Like, why is it always required to learn…

Western History

Western Art History

Western Medicine

But the rest is optional

Why is it always American Literature

And then African American Literature

Why is it always American History

And then African American History

I mean, I thought people were only divided geographically?

Yet, down in the books, we are still separated, still divided

Recorded as if two different nations

Past African American and Caucasian American abolitionists and activists struggled for everybody

For if they were to let America continue in its corruptness

That would have been an injustice for all

American History is our History

African American History is our History

History needs to be known correctly

So wrongdoings won’t be repeated by anybody

Black Emphasis Month is for the whole community

©Kay Rich

Rahm Emanuel's "Retarded" Comment: Sarah Palin Lashes Out | The News is NowPublic.com

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My Commentary on the matter:

well for one, it's NOT the same as the n-word, the n-word, along with it's meaning, has never changed, which is up for debate by rap artists who change the "er" to "a"

retarded has evolved from idiot, stupid, dumb, feeble, feeble-minded, etc

obama has used the word stupid and she did not slam him for it

that being said, it was still wrong for him to use the word "retarded" but it is NOT nor will it ever equate to the emotional response to the n-word

My sis' posed question:
so ifi call something retarded its the same thing as stupid...so the two are interchangeable...is that what you are saying?

My response:
pretty much, the bible says ur not supposed to call anyone stupid or a fool anyway b/c there are power in words, so just don't insult anybody/anything 

FEEL FREE TO COMMENT AND TELL ME WHAT U THINK!!!!! :-))