Remember The &Quot;Wog Tree&Quot; Poem by Cecelia GrantPeters

After school one day when I was about 7 years old I told my dad about an incident at school, where another child had called me a "Wog", as I didn't know what the word 'Wog' meant, I asked dad. Dad told me that a Wog was a tree in Africa, which stands out amongst all the trees, it is dark and shiny and called Ebony. It stands alone and is very rare and beautiful. He told me that every time someone called me a 'Wog', to 'remember the Wog Tree'. The next day at school I did exactly that. It gave me a tremendous boost and has stayed with me since.