MOTHER AFRIKA (2023)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Mother Afrika
The path to ya
Has been lost to ya
Children,
Here in Amerika
They’ve disparaged ya
To alienate our feelings.
Not a word of ya
Wealth the west keeps stealing,
You … Read the rest
WHY AFGHANISTAN?
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Why the Afghan invasion
Was it so the people could be free,
Or to control gas
Deposits in the Caspian sea?
It came after 9/11
When Amerika targeted its own,
Three towers destroyed in … 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
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
GENTRIFICATION (2022)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Gentrification
The word is a euphemism
A sneaky way
to display
racism
To hide fascist
displacement without
lynchings and white riots
Or the “n” word
being heard
But the result
is the same
Ethnic … Read the rest
