[Fiji Hill]

ONE MORE “S” IN THE USA

Put one more S in the U.S.A.
To make it Soviet.
One more S in the U.S.A.
Oh, we’ll live to see it yet.
When the land belongs to the farmers
And the factories to the working men—
The U.S.A. when we take control
Will be the U.S.S.A. then. …
But we can’t join hands together
So long as whites are lynching black,
So black and white in one union fight
And get on the right track.
By Texas, or Georgia, or Alabama led
Come together, fellow workers
Black and white can all be red:

Put one more S in U.S.A.

—Langston Hughes, c. 1932

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A similar article:

The Wondering Wanderer (Hughes biography)
http://www.campusreportonline.net/main/articles.php?id=2782

[Woebama]

Did he really write that childish drivel? Was he considered a writer?