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The Afrikan Diaspora

The Afrikan Diaspora

Includes all of humanity

One great big extended family

Sharing a single commonality

To form one global community

Though throughout our collective history

There has been atrocity after atrocity

Committed with hubris and hypocrisy

Sometimes in the name of democracy

Or in the name of a theocracy

Which ignored the Commandment

Of honor thy father and mother 

So that your days may longer

Instead they neglected their mama

Because of a deep psychic trauma

That created the Whiteman’s burden

Which was a guilt-ridden conscience

That came from committing injustice

Out of compounded ignorance

Just like the Arabs in the Sudan

Killing fellow Muslims because of black skin

And this is what they’ve historically done

‘Cause to them a slave is an Afrikan

And one just can’t blame the president

Rather blame those that run our government

For it’s no longer for, of, and by the People

And has it ever really lived up to its credo

When big money multi-nationals call all the shots

For the haves and have-mores, but not the have-nots

They purchase legislation and executive orders 

To further their control to dominate others

They write foreign policy to benefit themselves

While the World’s poor majorities live in the hells 

That the elite have created out of greed and stupidity

And even causes our selves to forget our humanity

And this goes beyond labels like Christianity

For all belief systems when looked at objectively

Is adoration to God from Her creation 

And no group or individual can show justification

For attacking or discrediting another’s belief system 

As long as it’s equitable and is consistent

With the natural laws the Creator established 

To keep us in check and maintain the balance

Copyright © Allen Conner | Year Posted 2006

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