SOME THOUGHTS ON ADVOCACY VERSUS SERVING THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SERVING THE PEOPLE AND MY POLITICAL GROWTH
In discussing the differences between advocacy and serving the people, I want to begin with an account … Read the rest
BLACK HISTORY MONTH ALL YEAR (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
There are some of us who
Appreciate the attention,
One month of the year
For our “honorable mention.”
A special recognition
Of some Black achievements,
And a few mild acknowledgements… Read the rest
Kevin Rashid Johnson is the Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP). He is someone that I’ve been honored to have known for over a decade. I’ve learned quite a lot from him over the years. … Read the rest
From Amerika’s founding fathers
To its oil barons and robbers
Your heroes ain’t mines.
Fascists and deviants
Warmongers slave drivers
Pedophiles lynchers
Native genociders
Your heroes ain’t mines.
Those who claim fame
We don’t see the same
Let’s get down … Read the rest
Ain’t nobody down
Like Big Momma,
Kept it G
Through all the drama.
She was there
When you were born,
Had words of wisdom
When you were scorned.
When they jaded you
She aided you,
Combed out your knots
Brushed … Read the rest
There’s a whole history
of bloody denial,
Of crimes and benefits
for which you must reconcile.
From slavery and genocide
to Jim Crow outrages,
Your imprint is all over
Amerika’s racist history pages.
The most heinous abuses
were at your … Read the rest
Amerika has always denied,
Holding political prisoners…
they lied.
From original Panthers
to anarchists and
anti-imperialists,
They’ve always exiled
executed or locked away
those who were serious.
About challenging the status quo
removed so they couldn’t show,
The masses
the … Read the rest
There were no races
Before 1676,
During that time
Europeans and Arikans were mixed.
On the plantations
As servants and slaves,
United as one
Cradle to grave.
They suffered lived
Loved and died the same,
Then in 1676
Revolt came.… Read the rest
George Jackson
Soledad brother,
With a
Solid ass mother.
She raised a revolutionary man
That they HAD to kill,
Even still
He left a will.
And testament
To the people,
So decades later
We’re still seeing sequels.
Revolutionaries in prisons… Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
