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

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