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Our history didn’t begin
With slavery
Under the yoke
Of Arab and European knavery
No one favored me
With the truth
Of our bravery
From whence we came
Our true culture and history
Or our true names
It’s a shame… Read the rest

For the darker hue
It remains like slavery of olden days
At any moment
One’s dearest could be
Sold away
Or their existence
Stole away
Heartache wrenched from smiles
On a day
Begun with sunshine
Defiled…
Each moment lived
Pregnant … Read the rest

Mama, where my daddy?

He should have been here long ago

Baby I know and I’ll try to explain

Why he just couldn’t show

But Mama, does Daddy love me?

Child you know he do

Truth be told son

Bad … Read the rest

MAMA (2025)

by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

You know all my
Faces
My every shade
My light and dark spaces
The brick beds I've made
On which I've laid
You've endured me
When I try you
Defy you
Test you
But 

THE NAZIFICATION OF AMERIKA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Amerika is this what you wanted
A neo-Nazi in the white house,
Spewing imperial racist rhetoric
out both sides of his lying white mouth?
No pretending this isn’t fascism
Can’t say … Read the rest

LOST LIVES BETWEEN TEXAS AND GAZA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

The Texas floods
were a disaster
The slaughter in Gaza is deliberate
ongoing, much faster
Between Palestine
and the U.S.
Color, nationality and religion
makes their lives worth less… Read the rest

REFLECTIONS ON THE MOVIE “BLINK TWICE” (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Reflecting on the movie
“Blink Twice”
A rich white male rape scene
made a paradise
For the victims of this
wicked scheme
Had the women believing
they were living … Read the rest

How does your celebration relate to me?
Confined in a concrete box—can’t hear, can’t see
My life is solitary
How for me is this day honorary?
Or let’s go back to its origin days…
As your forefathers proclaimed freedom, mine … Read the rest