Northern Liberal

And so
we lick our chops at Birmingham
and say, “See!
Southern dogs have vindicated me—
I knew that this would come.”
But who are we to be
so proud that savages
have proven a point
taken late in time
to show how liberal I am?
Above the struggle
I can quite afford to be:
well-fed, degreed,
not beat—clite,
up North.
I send checks,
support your cause,
and lick my chops
at Jim Crow laws
and Birmingham—
where you,
not I
am.