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Kevin Rashid Johnson

GOD IS? (2022)

GOD IS? (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

God is what we do
It includes me and you
The eternity of our deeds
Is determined by serving the needs
Of the planet and the people
Metaphysics doesn’t determine
What is good

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We Still Charge Genocide

GENTRIFICATION (2022)

GENTRIFICATION (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Gentrification
The word is a euphemism
A sneaky way
to display
racism
To hide fascist
displacement without
lynchings and white riots
Or the “n” word
being heard
But the result
is the same
Ethnic

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Harriet Tubman, Assata Shakur, Winnie Mandela

ASSATA (2023)

Harriet Tubman, Assata Shakur, Winnie Mandela

ASSATA (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Every little girl
Should know her name,
From the bowels of
Repression and calamity she came.

Wrung poetic lyrics
Of love from raw pain,
From a system designed

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Harriet Tubman, Assata Shakur, Winnie Mandela

WINNIE (2023)

Harriet Tubman, Assata Shakur, Winnie Mandela

WINNIE (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

When I exalt the name Mandela,
I’m not invoking the fella.

Compared to her weight in gold,
Nelson couldn’t hold.

A single penny,
Yes, I’m speaking of Winnie.

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