you said it Bobby!

Bobby Greer wrote:
>
> Hey Gang,
>
>         Just some rustic ramblings for you to ponder.
>
>                                 PC Names or PC GAMES
>
> Much is made of label and names,
> By those who play PC games
> You are disabled, not crippled
> You are Black, not Negroe
>
> The names used to designate
> Are not meant to denigrate
> You are gay, not queer or so its said
> The name is the thing, don't be misled
>
> But I am a man, a professor, a husband and father
> Would calling me some name make me another.
> I am a person, a human being
> With all the warts and wonders for the seeing
>
> The name you use to denote me
> Is but a particle of who I be
> So a rose by any other
> Would smell like no other.
>
> Geek, cripple, niggers are feeble terms
> Thrown about by ignorant worms
> They should not harm or even bend
> The real live human within.
>
> Bobby Greer
> 4/5/99