BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

ROCKING THE BOAT



White people pulled all the
Stops to keep Black people
From getting their just due.
Two four six eight we don't
Want to integrate they said no
Niggas in our schools they said
Send them back to Africa where
They come from they said but the
Lil rock nine lil ruby bridges and
James meredith began to rock the
Education desegration boat and
White people could not yet
Accept the fact that niggas were
People too that niggas bled red
Blood too

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

SEPARATE BUT equal




Pre-civil rights era
White people were convinced we
Should all live separate but equal.
Segregated
My land is my land your land is your
Land kind of thing no discrimination
Separate but equal.
Negroe people were like yeah
We can live with that too we don't need
To occupy the same space in conflict.
We can be self-sufficient do for
Ourselves just give us our 40 acres
And a mule we can work with that
Just give us a fair deal. As the years passed
Things did not change prejudice and
Racism raised it's ugly head in hunger
And a movement for change was born

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

NOW WE HERE



We started from the bottom
De-segregated schools and
Lunch counters water fountains and
Toilets boycotts and sit-ins massive
Demonstrations to use urinals beside
White folk . All the time working
Steadily all the time working our
Way back to being the head and
Not the tail

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

HEADS OR TAILS





Booker T and W.E.B. were two
Sides of the same coin both
Black.  The mistake we always
Make about which was the
Right side to choose like
Malcolm or Martin Luther
King two sides of the same
Coin was not learning to put
Certain differences aside for
The sake of unification