A stolen people
\nWith a stolen past
\nMade into a lowly caste
\nA separate class
\nKidnapped from
\nOur homeland
\nBy slavers
\nMade captive labor
\nIn a no-man’s land
\nOur histories
\nDisrupted
\nOur cultures corrupted
\nExcluded from Amerikkka
\nFor generations
\nKept in lowly stations
\nAnd occupations<\/p>\n
We are New Afrikan<\/p>\n
Emphasis placed upon separation
\nConditioned to self-hatred
\nDivided and ruled
\nMade subordinate tools
\nConfined on plantations
\nPrisons and other
\nCaptive spaces
\nEnduring countless disgraces
\nWhere the evolution
\nOf our identity began
\nWhere many Afrikan
\nNations were melded
\nAnd born again<\/p>\n
We are New Afrikan<\/p>\n
We are not confined
\nTo the mere color of our face
\nNot a mere race
\nBut a people defined
\nBy evolution
\nIn time
\nAnd place
\nBy characteristics
\nBased
\nOn a shared
\nHistory and social station
\nEconomic condition
\nVernacular and location
\nFeatures that
\nBy every definition
\nMake a people a nation<\/p>\n
We are New Afrikan<\/p>\n
We must unite with all
\nWho share an oppressed station
\nIn Amerikkka
\nThis prison house
\nOf nations
\nAn imperialist empire
\nFeeding on the world
\nExploiting every woman
\nMan boy and girl
\nWe need a community
\nOf unity
\nTo end this condition
\nOf the wealthy waging
\nA war of attrition
\nTheir empire rose
\nWith our bondage on plantations
\nAnd will fall
\nUnder the struggle
\nOf all oppressed nations<\/p>\n
We are New Afrikan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A stolen people With a stolen past Made into a lowly caste A separate class Kidnapped from Our homeland By slavers Made captive labor In a no-man’s land Our histories Disrupted Our cultures corrupted Excluded from Amerikkka For generations Kept in lowly stations And occupations We are New Afrikan Emphasis …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}