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thers, of course, should feel free to add names/ participate in the libation, including the addition of other renditions of poetry and songe, etc. Before we proceed in our quest for knowledge and deeper understanding (in our effort to wake from the deep slumber/ mental slavery) that will reconnect us with our ancestral/collective memories through the Black Dot [The Black Dot is the hidden doorway of life which again is the dorway through which a reborn people must pass],I'll initiate the offering of libation to our ancestors, and present acknowledgement to our living warriors in the struggles:
Julien Fedon, Maurice Bishop, Marcus Garvey, Toussaint L'Ouveture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, Malcolm X, Sojourney Truth, Hariet Tubman, Shaka Zulu, Louis Amstrong, Federick Douglass, Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr.,Robert Nesta Marley,Jack Johnson, Osie Davis, Amos Wilson, John Coltrane, Asa Hillard III, Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler, T.A. Marryshow, Kwame Nkrumah, Edward Wilmot Blyden, C.L.R James,Haile Sellasie, George Padmore, Patrice Lumumba, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, John Henrik Clarke, Che Guvera, Cheikh Anta Diop, Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, Lorraine Hansberry, made mentioned.
And for the ones with us (still in the flesh): M-1 and Stic. Man of Dead Prez, Lauren Hill, Burning Spear, Mya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Cornelius Eady, Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Elaine Brown, Divine Pryor, Spike Lee, Bell Hooks, Cornel West, Kwame Dawes, Sonia Sanchez, and the list goes on.
We forever hold them in our thoughts and hearts: rebels with a cause / spirited lives.
In recognition of our plight, here are some words in the same vein:
"NORMAL":THE DIAGNOSIS a poem by me (Devril)Copyright
Normal is a fraud
The biggest decoy
A coverup for the prevalent lies
A mischeivous poly
To obscure the obvious
And corrupt us
Ask questions
Then they label us disingenuous
If one question may be pardoned
What becomes of curiosity
When and how
Did it become uncharacteristic
Or abnormal if you will
Curiosity should be the rule
Not the exception
And has been like this from creation
What an upside down world
What an upside down world
I'm the scapegoat
Because I refuse to be a lamb
Can you blame me
Normal isn't normal
Not with this outlook
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By All Means another of my poems / copyright
By all means
A child of Mother Africa
Shouldn't be destitute (let alone be begging for the spoils of vultures)
Especially her first born (the Negriod)
Nor has to prove his/her goodness
To anyone for anything
A lot has went wrong, but one thing got to change
Respect got to be restored
Mother herself is
Suffering at the moment;
Her colorless-child has raped her
And is now F***ing with her head
It's an Oedipus complex
I believe that's the name they adopted for this mother-f***ing behavior.
DISCLAIMER: The words in this poem are not directed at any person or persons in this forum, and shouldn't be taken as offensive language in that regard. I trust Arthur and the webmaster would acknowledge as such.
Now, for something which we all would be more familiar with, the late great Bob Marley's Slave Driver lyrics (in brief)
Slave driver tha table is turned / catcha fire
Catch your fire so you can get burned / catcha fire
Slave driver tha table is turned / catcha fire
Catch your fire....you gonna get burn / catcha fire
Every time I hear the crack of a whip
My blood runs cold
I remember on the slave ships how they brutalized our very souls
Today they say that we are free...only to be chained in poverty
catha fire...........
PS thers, of course, should feel free to add names/ participate in the libation, including the addition of other renditions of poetry and songe, etc.