BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

TEARS FOR OUR CHILDREN



Crying for them all
Especially for the
Children
Crying for things we
Lost in the fires of the
Struggle for humanity
Crying for the four
Little girls slain in the
Birmingham church
Bombing crying
For emmitt till
Brutally slain in Mississippi
On the early
Battlefield  of civil rights
Ruby bridges the little
Rock nine they were the sacrificial
Lambs our children marching
Dying for the cause
Crying tears for all our children
Done away with by those
Who saw fit to hit
Us where it hurts most
In our future generations

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

WAKE UP


Don't be shocked
Malcolm said when I
Say I was in prison you
Still in prison

I've left from where I've
Been but you still there
Malcolm said you still a
Prisoner of your own
Mind by the way you
Think you still sleep

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS


Everything has always been
Anti the Black man yet we
Building America too
Like you even
Though what we got overtime
Was hatred, discrimination, drugs, disrespect
And imprisonment always
Trying to get rid of us, send us
Away back to Africa any place
But here
Lock us up kill us
Off exterminate us like a
Plague of epidemic proportions

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

UNRESOLVED ISSUES

Been going around in circles
Trying to find it but not much
Has changed in hundreds of
Years for us except time
Different decade
Different century
Different Black man
Same nonsense still must be
Overcome that we haven't
Overcome yet
We shall overcome again
And again with no end in sight

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

WHAT FREEDOM?







I be's a free man said the
Ex-slave after emancipation
In 1865 declared it law.

Yet some Negros did not
Realize a problem existed
With  the idea of freedom
Until 99 years later when a
Civil rights bill was passed into
Law giving us certain unalienable
Rights that should have already
Been  ours without question

We hold these truths to be
Self- evident that
All men are created equal
That includes us Negros
We the people too

BLACK HISTORY POEM PROJECT

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE




Huey p newton minister
Of defense for the black
Panther party talking about
Black power not just brute
Strength black power but us
As a people empowering
Ourselves acquiring holistic
Knowledge to combat racism
To increase our revolutionary
Fervor and huey
Was a ph.d

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