A Sunday Poem: ‘Welcome’

 

Signs posted in Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg:

“It’s Okay To Be White”.

 

Why wouldn’t it be okay?

 

Signs carried in U.S. rallies:

“All Lives Matter”.

 

Why wouldn’t they matter?

 

Signs on park benches, Germany, 1935:

“For Aryans only”.

 

Why shouldn’t Aryans have a place to relax?

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every  Sunday)

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