Poem Question?

[blackoptimus]

Hey guys, I'm very curious on what this poem means.

Incident
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.

By Countee Cullen

I can't work out what this poem means. Does it just say that the black kid feels gutted of how the white boy treated him?....?

[Lint]

I can't work out what this poem means. Does it just say that the black kid feels gutted of how the white boy treated him?....?

In a nutshell yeh

It also shows how a small incident like that can stay with a person for a lifetime, despite all the happy memories one could count against it, and hence how fragile the road to reconciliation (with regard to race relations) can be.

[blackoptimus]

In a nutshell yeh

It also shows how a small incident like that can stay with a person for a lifetime, despite all the happy memories one could count against it, and hence how fragile the road to reconciliation (with regard to race relations) can be.

Thanks dude.