Get Your Knee Off My Neck
2 min readJun 3, 2020
A Poem for George Floyd
By Hettie V. Williams
This land is my land more than
It is yours, my people been here
Since the eighteenth century
By way of the Middle Passage.
Get your knee off my neck.
Hettie V. Williams is currently an Associate Professor of African American History at Monmouth University. She is the author/editor of five books.