Justice - Langston Hughes

"That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes."

In a time of sincere discrimination against blacks, obviously justice was not blind. But towards the end of Hughes lifetime, many strides were taken for civil rights which led him to write this poem. It speaks about how at one point justice was not blind, it was biased to whites and whites only. Yet now, as the civil rights are being gained, justice became blind as it always should've been.