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• 1 2016-11-11T17:34:27-05:00 A Roman Holiday 3 The Liberator (July 1919); Workers Dreadnought (September 6, 1919) plain 2020-09-15T16:07:42-04:00 Race, War, America, Europe, Lynching
  'Tis but a modern Roman holiday;
  Each state invokes its soul of basest passion,
  ​Each vies with each to find the ugliest way
  ​To torture Negroes in the fiercest fashion.
  ​Black Southern men, like hogs await your doom!
  White wretches hunt and haul you from your huts,
  ​They squeeze the babies out your women's womb,
  ​They cut your members off, rip out your guts!
  It is a Roman holiday, and worse,
  It is the mad beast risen from his lair,
  ​The dead accusing years' eternal curse.
  ​Reeking of vengeance, in fulfilment here.
  ​Bravo, Democracy! Hail greatest Power
  That saved sick Europe in her darkest hour!
  
  (The Liberator [New York]. July 1919; Workers Dreadnought [London]. September 6, 1919.)
  (​Edited and Proofread by Amardeep Singh)