“Niggerlips

After reading the poem attached respond to short response below in a detailed paragraph, use the poem, “Niggerlips” to answer the prompts below on Be sure to use specific evidence from the poem to support your answer: Explain what point of view is being used by the author.Why do you think the poet chose the particular POV (what feeling or perspective is he trying to get across?)

"Niggerlips" by Martin Espada Niggerlips was the high school name for me. So called by Douglas the car mechanic, with green tattoos on each forearm, and the choir ofround pink faces that grinned deliciously from the back row ofclassrooms, droned over by teachers checking attendance too slowly. Douglas would brag about cruising his car near sidewalks of black children to point an unloaded gun, to scare niggers like crows off a tree, he’d say. My great-grandfather Luis was un negrito too, a shoemaker in the coffee hills of Puerto Rico, 1900. The family called him a secret and kept no photograph. My father remembers the childhood white powder that failed to bleach his stubborn copper skin, and the family says he is still a fly in milk. So Niggerlips has the mouth of his great-grandfather, the song he must have sung as he pounded the leather and nails, the heat that courses through copper, the stubbornness of a fly in milk, and all you have, Douglas, is that unloaded gun