12.10.2006

This is Crisis!!!


My heart goes out to the descendants of our original people in the birthplace of African civilization being murdered and exterminated. This is the biggest crisis for African People post colonialism and all people do is talk! The solution seems so simple against the backdrop of millions perishing in this genocide. We cannot have any political discussion as a people or as individuals (in my opinion) with out bringing this to the forefront. You want to know how I feel about the Democrats in power in Congress...what can they do about Sudan. You want to ask me about Bush tax cuts.....what do they do for the people in Sudan. There are plenty of crisis in this world and in the country but most pale in comparison when you look at the context. Millions have perished! A luta continua!

Children are dying, Mothers are crying in the streets
We mourn our brothers in the
Sudan
We long for justice and peace
Who will stand against the crisis?
Corruption and violence from coast to coast
We are the ones who stand aside
While our people are suffering the most
It’s not that we can’t do something about it
But we prefer not to get involved
Forfeit our destiny for apathy
Let others tell us when how ours gets solved
Children are dying Mothers are crying and where are we?
We’ve watched them get knocked down to their knees
Wondering how many must perish
Waiting for foreign diplomacy



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8.21.2006

No More


This poem was written in the memory and spirit of Gil Scot Heron's "Jose Compos Torres".









I had said I wasn’t gone write no more rhymes like this
No more rhymes talking about hard times
Hard times and heinous crimes,
Skewed lines and hard times that no one knows but me
Travesty that no one seems to see
The endless effort and creativity
That is unequivocally being stamped out
Minds mindlessly trying to discover what they’re about


I had said I wasn’t gone write no more rhymes like this
Told myself that I would try to see the good in bad situations
Would try to let myself be an All-American citizen of this nation
I had said I wasn’t gone write no more rhymes like this….
But then reality knocked the rose colored spectacles off my eyes
Destiny allowed me to start seeing through my ancestor’s lives
That knowledge turned history into lies, turned misery into cries from the souls of black folk
Unable to throw off the master’s yoke
I had said I wasn’t gone write no more rhymes like this; I made a mistake



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8.15.2006

America's Continous Hypocrisy


Much of my problem with this country stems not from the fact that I expect it to be as noble and just as some would lead you to believe it is, but more the failure of its leaders and establishment to sincerely make amends for the aggregious wrongs it has perpetrated among the people that have been subjigated to its jurisdiction. Whether that be African Americans who were read the declaration of independence by their slave owners, suffered through Jim Crow, and are being slowly homogenized by the current divide and control strategy. Or Natives who were told by invaders to their lands to assimilate and surrender or die. Or Inhabitants of all portions of "latin" america who were told accept our exploitation and imposition of our will as dictated by the Woodrow Doctrine or else. Or the Continental Africans who were told you must conform to western democracy unless its results in the elction of Pan-African Socialist, they will be overthrown or assassinated. Much of the problems we face today are due to our misguided foreign policies of the past. Our government has done very little penance so the chickens will continue to come home to roost. I realize and accept the privelege being a citizen and living in this country offer, but I am not willing to accept the continuous blatant hypocrisy being perpertrated by its leaders and establishment without voicing my discontent and countering its effects.

And now......

They said “all men were created equal”
He said “no child will be left behind”
But they considered some slaves and some people
While he left New Orleans children for three days to die
They said that their true intensions were noble
While he said compassionate conservatism deserved a try
They said that God’s book is the plan
He said that God’s will guides his hand

They said that things had changed for the better
While he said we needed to pray and be strong
We said why should change come in a constitutional letter?
We said he really didn’t care about us all along
We said the original declaration should have been the trend setter
We said when has he ever proved us wrong?
We are still in the lower class trying to rise above poverty
They are still in the upper class making rich people more money


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7.29.2006

Face the Facts


As I look at the current "crisis" in the Arabian Pennisula and I look at the ignored, prolonged (been decades yall), ongoing travesty taking place in the Sudan and other parts of Central Africa where long standing Judeo-Christian Africans being terrorized and oppressed by Islamic Arabs and Afro-Arabs, it makes me wonder how one crisis could require so much action while the other is merely being observed. Coupled with the popular notions being put forth by death penalty supporting, "bring'em on" war mongering, let the poor get poorer while the rich get richer upper class tax cutting, conservative-christians that keep asking me "what would Jesus do?". I do not think he would be on Wall Street waving the stars and stripes screaming "God Bless the USA".



Let me just start out like this…
Jesus was dark skinned.
And if you deny it, it is out of fear
You can not change his skin color based on a hope and a prayer
A man born in Israel with African roots
Was not born in a European birthday suit
He was black. If I am black with my brown skin
Don’t try to diffuse the point by saying he is the color of all men
Because that is still black, and I respectfully decline to accept the proposition
If I step into a church with a white Jesus there is no reason for me to listen
The preacher might as well be telling me the sun revolves around the earth
You can not build a house of truth, if its foundation is not built upon it first
This is not semantics or a simple misunderstanding that’s being made into a big deal
This is simply an institution indoctrinating people to accept something that is not real

Jesus was dark skinned.
This is important because it means if I am a nigger then so is he
It means that Yoshua could have been hanging next to Emmit Till on the cotton tree
And that would be strange fruit indeed
Those with a guilty conscious would suddenly find it hard to obtain the forgiveness they need
It is important because it would give a whole new perspective to the question of what Jesus died for
As we sit and watch the slaughter of thousands of niggers in the Darfur
Thinking Jesus rose from the grave… to bring salvation to Western Civilization while they allow black Christians to be raped, slaughtered and enslaved


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postclaimer:
This is not about rascism, William Wallace, John Adams, John Brown, Beowulf all white people I admire but they were paleskinned. Yoshua, Hannibal, Malcom X, Horus all black people that I admire, but they were darkskinned. Face the facts!

7.22.2006

Waiting for the world to change


Taking a moment to think about our suffering and pain
It’s hard to contain the thoughts
The more that I learn
The more that I yearn for something different
See resistance and indifference have been a part of my history for so long
Tempered only by struggle and complacency
So many have dedicated their lives to the aforementioned
Their spirits have passed on but still await our ascension
Still waiting.... for the world to change
Maintaining hope that some will press on against the seemingly insurmountable odds
While many stand along the way and stare
Wondering what is worth this discontent?
Why should I even care?
Wondering why the spilled blood of millions of people of African descent should amount to a stain on my heart
But we are a continuation of that struggle obligated to play the part
And at that, it was clear from the start that when it rains it pours
The difficulties stacked against us are hard to ignore
Could we be naive enough to think that divine principled purpose would triumph over this carnal unprincipled reality?
That our efforts can undo this perpetual state of tragedy
Twenty Six years have past
Now I sing my child liberation lullabies and plan revolutionary reunions
Debating with my inner circle about who’s really down with “the movement”
As we recount the fore bearers of our cause debating the same
Five Hundred, Sixty Six years of collective conscious souls waiting for the world to change


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Slavery II: The Sequel


I wrote these lines and spoke these rhymes into existence
This is my life; I put my heart into this resistance
At the insistence of those who came before me
My life will define the next chapter in my ancestral story
It is no longer enough for our hearts to be in the right place
We are in a fight for the very salvation of our race
The road to perdition has been paved by those with good intentions
Right now, we need those who will take action based on good decisions
Look past the divisions put in place by those without our best interest at heart
These are modern day Willie Lynch philosophies established to keep us apart
Those of African descent are being attacked by the same global machine
Blacks from
St. Louis to Sao Paulo are suffering the same things
It is no longer acceptable to tolerate the status quo and let things be
We need people who will break the chains of mental slavery

We don’t need those who buy the diamonds that support the wars that kill our people so they can bling bling
Trading in our land and our wealth for
America’s material dreams
Abandon ship and leave black neighborhoods to be destroyed
Those who moved to the suburbs and depend on other people to stay employed
Then get annoyed when their old neighborhood in its declining state
Produces children who grow up and increase the crime rate
We’ve seen prison cells become overcrowded with black youth
And what is being done to turn the tide?
This is a crisis for the lower class while the middle is being pacified

Our government says that freedom is this country’s primary vision
While all the time continuing to commercialize the prison system
No longer even waste their time with the idea of rehabilitation
Instead create cheap labor from the increasingly dark skinned prison population
This sensation erasing gains made in race relations
Dating all the way back to the original Slave emancipation
Am I the only one who sees this as a negative impact on our progress instead of a negative consequence of our ascension as social and economic equals?
We are experiencing a civil rights crisis founded on indentured servitude
Call it slavery the sequel….


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