The socialist states
are all gone
Does this mean capitalism
has finally won?
By no means
is the fate of all decided
Just because the rich now
have divided
And eat the world like
a pie
Causing billions to die
free Huey!
a demand that sparked
a movement
the needle
we moved it
closer
to freedom
Huey P. we freed him
but afterward lost steam
which means
another deferred dream
but the vision
ain’t dead
instead
we gotta
revive what
the wisest of us
are self taught
who escape the trap
of being caught
in the web lies
fed in the formal schools
of our oppressors
trained with abnormal rules
deformed
and used
for generations
as tools
of our own
Someone once told Huey P. Newton
you are what you eat
Cuz he called cops pigs
but admitted he ate pig feet
Huey responded to the critic
but you call yourself a man
So doesn’t that means my brother
that
We endure torture death
and suffering
while you compete for clout
and fame
Advocates helpers
good talkers bad walkers
ventriloquists who speak
in our name
Which one of you
spoke to us
walked a yard in our shoes
Asked us
behold the silent noise
cries with no voice
generations of shattered lives
discarded like broken toys
a too early demise
lost and tortured souls
ghostly lullabies
legacies no one knows
unknown tomorrows
tossed in ships’ holds
young and old
suffered
did you know the color of her eyes
the texture of her hair
did you know she was there
did you even care
incapable of harm
an innocent new life
a beacon of light
to husband and wife
her world
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
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 restInvade 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