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In the beginning we will all wear black hoods

Poem: ‘The Genesis of Torture’

On the issue of torture, what goes around comes around.
By , | June 15, 2009

In the beginning
we will all wear black hoods

Our faces will be hidden from history
Someone will tie a cruel footnote to our genitals

It might be our neighbor
disguised as God

, E. Ethelbert Miller is an award-winning poet, director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. His interviews are a regular feature of Fiesta.