Allison Davis, "Lawyer" (1928)
You brought home your northern education
To bleed the poor “n*****s” you scorn,
Threatening frantic blacks with jail,
And pretending to save them from
The Bugaboo of the Law.
From one love-blind mother,
You boast,
You got all she had,
Three hundred dollars,
To keep her son out of jail.
Well,
Your new car
Is all you have,
And in that your white-skinned wife
Loves her college boy;
While the stupid, black mother
You broke,
Scrubs floors to keep
Her son.
Published in The Crisis, March 1928