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
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
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
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 results like drug addictions
Treatments that help
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
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
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 restForgotten ill begotten
of lowly birth
Hindmost hated most
the wretched of the earth
Called the criminal element
irrelevant to the power elite
By them unprotected but expected
to bow at their feet
Not me, my sights are set on
… Read the restThe Zionists kill
Palestinian children
claiming terrorists
attack from behind civilians
yet they
created Israel
use it as a whole society
of human shields
a nation of settlers
where Jewish identity
is used with impunity
to wield
violence genocide
ethnic
race is an invention
a social prison
of artificial division
the oppressed separated
into ranks that race
for first place
in a caste system
based
on the color of one’s face
created
by those in power under
capitalism
so that