THE EVIL

THE EVIL

by Miriam Kubo

Jim Crow laws were evil, twisted, horrid.

Yes, horrid, so never say they are good

because they weren’t.

It started with the Civil War,

and then the segregation,

and so the protests happened.

I never would have known.

People who are darker of the skin

were treated horribly

and people who were white

were treated like royalty.