White is the new black

 Universities build walls

Between the races
Like new segregation
Determined to blot out
With black anything white
Rules of order
Like new Jim Crow
Telling us what words to say
Or not say, or things to do
Or shouldn’t,
Not yet banning us from toilets
Or water foundations,
Nor making us sit
On the back of the bus,
No new “whites only,”
Yet, but soon,
Orange once being the new black,
Meaning jail birds,
But these days,
You dare not show your white face
Any place like this
With lists posted
Martin Luther-like
To the gates of
Higher education saying
“Whites need not apply.”