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Kevin Rashid Johnson

Reins of Freedumb

RACIST HOLLYWOOD (2023)

Reins of Freedumb

RACIST HOLLYWOOD (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

We’ve forgotten that Hollywood began
By promoting the Ku Klux Klan.

Its first blockbuster presentation,
The film The Birth of a Nation.

That dehumanized Black men,
Portraying them as all

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Hands Up Don't Shoot!

LAW AND ORDER (2023)

Hands Up Don’t Shoot!

LAW AND ORDER (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
The extermination,
Of the AmerIndian nations…
WAS LEGAL
The depopulation of Afrika,
Of millions hunted and captured…
WAS LEGAL
Making those captured people slaves,
From cradle to grave…
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MLK Jr.

MLK (2023)

MLK Jr.

MLK (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

From the outset
a word about MLK,
He was NOT assassinated
by James Earl Ray.

If you investigate
you will find,
The King family won a lawsuit
back in ’99.

Where they

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Baby

LITTLE PEOPLE (2023)

Baby

LITTLE PEOPLE (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Eyes of wonder
taking everything in,
Breakfast dribbling
down your chin.

Tiny fingers grasp
everything in reach,
The world your classroom
eager to teach.

That smile of yours
had me duped,
You

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Control Unit Torture

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT (2023)

Control Unit Torture

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT/TORTURE (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

I spent over 20 years
in the hole,
Watching humans
lose their souls.

Into sheer madness
many descended,
At their own hands
many lives ended.

It’s not as though
officials

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BPP Serve the People Programs

WAKANDA FOR WHAT (2023)

WAKANDA FOR WHAT (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Wakanda for what?
A comic book drama
To keep our eyes wide shut.

A caricature
of Black struggle against
the most heinous conditions,
Replacing our actual history
with animated fiction.

Lowndes County

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We Still Charge Genocide

2020 VISION (2023)

2020 VISION (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

A pandemic
brought things
to a halt,
No vaccine no cure
no clues how caught.

Closest of kin
closest friends
passing on no warnings,
Like instant nightfall
from a bright sunny morning.

Shelter

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Legalized Lynching

STRANGER FRUIT (2023)

STRANGER FRUIT (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Compact spaces
Contain a stranger fruit,
Dark bodies crammed together
Like grapes with no roots.
Mass incarceration
Razor wire plantations,
Confining people
Of oppressed nations,
Chicano AmerIndian
New Afrikan Haitian.
A process of

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