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

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

FIRST QUESTION



Is our existence an accident
Of evolution?
Or is it the
Creator's plan that the
Black man must live out
His destiny and overcome the
Curse he put upon himself
Through ignorance and disobedience
Of Divine Law?

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

THE LETTER M STANDS FOR MARTYR



Medgar Evers of Mississippi
Registered Blacks to vote in
The deep South
Assassinated by someone they knew
But did not convict

Malcolm X on the streets of Manhattan
Spoke on the
Inhumane treatment of Black people
On a world stage
Assassinated by someone they knew
But did not convict


Martin Luther King in Memphis
Standing up for the rights of Black
Oppressed workers
Assassinated by someone they knew
But did not convict


Was this all a part of the
Master plan of Black genocide
That they know nothing about?

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

HISTORY 101


History 101 should be read as
His story 101 and is based
On lies and misconceptions
That Black people were lead to
Believe as the truth that would
Set us all free one day
But it didn't
It couldn't
As a result we have
Witnessed truth crushed
To earth rising again

BACKSTABBBERS - THE O'JAYS

2/1 - Saturday 12:11 am


First time long time since I spoke to my ex this evening. We had a small family crisis that needed to be resolved or else it could have been blown out of proportion. Although I was nipping it in the bud it was good to hear from her because I got an angle of the incident which I didn't have before. Her commentary resolved the issue for me. It was like I thought but I couldn't prove my point without an eye witness. She was that. Basically we talked on that incident and my beef incident from the other day.

8:04 pm

First day of "Black History Month." It means different things to different people and it has a very special place in my heart.

Been around for a long while going back to when it was a week long. I go some special plan to honor our shining Black Kings and Queens by writing a poem a day for the month of February. I just got the idea and impulse earlier today and I will see where it goes. Hopefully some good stuff will come out of it.