separate and unequal

by Justice Antonin Scalia's lights
Black students should be happy in their place
not taking seats from somebody who's White
but making do in schools just for their race
the Brown decision stands in jeopardy
and everything we've built on it since then
unequals can't be ever truly free
'til--Black or White--the State sees only Men
still redressing the past's the sticking point
should schools like Justice be carefully blind?
and will a coming president appoint
a Justice if Scalia's cast of mind?
sep'rate but equal died in High Court
but Nino shows how staky's that support