Sitting on their wide verandas,
Wealthy Negroes have white servants,
White sharecroppers work the black plantations,
And colored children have white mammies:
Mammy Faubus
Mammy Eastland
Mammy Wallace
Dear, dear darling old white mammies--
Sometimes even buried with our family.
Dear old
Mammy Faubus!
<i>Culture, they say, is a two-way street:</i>
Hand me my mint julep, mammny.
Hurry up!
Make haste!
Langston Hughes