June Jordan and His Poem “Poem about My Rights”



June Jordan and His Poem “Poem about My Rights”

Jordan's works reveal an unwavering concern for basic human rights and equity for all people. In her "Poem About My Rights," which appeared in her famous collection about violence in society titled Passion: New Poems, 1977-1980, she expresses rage and frustration at racial and sexual discrimination: "We are the wrong people of /the wrong skin on the wrong continent.... It was my father saying I was wrong saying that/I should have been a boy because he wanted one.... I am the history of the ...