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Checking Out the Green Book
Posted: January 26, 2019
The book that inspired a movie (eighty years later)…
In the library of our culture
a volume's been withdrawn.
It's a green book that was checked out far too much.
Why it wasn't banned's a mystery.
This non-fiction's history.
It was bound to be a racist person's crutch.
Now the Green Book is a movie.
It's a film you ought to see.
In black and white we're shown as in a mirror.
Some will blush with bright red faces
while still others will feel blue
for the ugliness of prejudice is clear.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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