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Over 400 years
Of Black bondage
Overwork underpay
For 30 days we pay homage
To those who resisted
The worst inhumanities
Conditions that cost
Many the loss of sanity
A people less astute
And fortified
Might have succumbed
And died… Read the rest

You call it independence day
Oh my how you lie
Cuz Black folks were still your slaves
On that day in July

If taxation without representation
Was just cause for outrage
How about being enslaved
>From cradle to grave

To … Read the rest

If you ever wanna discover
A place of boundless treasure
Where sisters and brothers can be found with
Talents beyond measure

All one need do is
Tear down these walls
Walk down these halls
You’ll hear it in their calls… Read the rest

Invade and topple governments you dislike
-regime change
But you’d never accept
the same done to you
-how strange

Then you ask
Why do they hate us?
well…you just bombed their lands
Killed their kids
razed their towns
but you … Read the rest

first shelter
night of growth
from gestation
comes youth

cycle of life
first begun
two forms
joined
to one

from a pool
dark in form
emitted to light
newly born

a gift to a world
torn by strife
oblivious to … Read the rest

The thing with invented
Professions
Are it’s self proclaimed professionals
Are in possession
Of all the made up credentials
That are essential
To inventing false social afflictions
Then prescribing treatments
That cause bad conditions like drug addictions
Treatments that help … Read the rest

BLACK WOMAN AND MAN UNITED (2024)

by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Who’s been the key to
Our survival
Since our arrival
On western shores
In scores
Of slave ship holds
Under the whip
To be sold
But now when told
History … Read the rest

The call came
Late in the morning
While Amerika was yawning
Palestine was mourning
Thousands dead
In atrocious attacks
As the world protests
Like the invasion of Iraq
In 2003
This is 20 years since
No weapons of mass destruction… Read the rest

Here I stand folks
No robes no glowing head rings
I don’t drown whole peoples
Commit genocide none not those things

Don’t hurl lightning bolts
That’s just the effects
Of atmospheric charges
I won’t condemn you for unwed sex

I … Read the rest