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.

RED WHITE & BLUE (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Do the victims of America realize,
What this rag’s colors symbolize?

Red is for the blood
That we’ve shed,
Blue is for the injuries
And bodies dead.

White is for the

FORGOTTEN YOUNG (2023)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

There was a time when,
We didn’t produce blind men.

Because the elders taught,
The youth the things they ought.

To know and grow from,
The scars we earned when young.

Not today

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

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

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

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

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.

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