Quote Originally Posted by blackoptimus View Post

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.