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The Caged Bird Still Sings

Written By:  D. Collins 7/7/25


I know the names of some of the greatest to ever dawn black skin.
Dr. Charles Drew, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
Generations from now their achievements will be overlooked.
Due to coordinated efforts to remove them from history books.


There were the Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskegee Airmen.
Maya Angelou and descriptive writings of Toni Morrison.
We had Dr. Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali.
Who gave hope to a population of people like me.


We've endured the longest deprivation mankind has faced.
You cannot remove something that refuses to be erased.
We've heard broken promises that never came about.
The Caged Bird Still Sings loudly from the top of the mount.

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Darrell Collins Date: 7/10/2025 6:04:00 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later). Login to Reply

Darrell Collins Date: 7/10/2025 6:02:00 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later). Login to Reply

Darrell Collins Date: 7/10/2025 5:56:00 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later). Login to Reply Darrell Collins Date: 7/10/2025 6:03:00 PM Religion was whipped and hanged into us....Did that happen to your bloodline?

Darrell Collins Date: 7/9/2025 5:28:00 PM Hello again Tom. It seems we have you beat by about 250 years. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an outgrowth of the International Bible Students Association, which was founded in 1872 in Pittsburgh by Charles Taze Russell. 1619: The beginning of slavery in America is often marked by the arrival of 20 enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, brought by English privateers who had seized them from a Portuguese slave ship. This marked the start of what would become a massive and brutal system of forced labor. Login to Reply Tom Woody Date: 7/10/2025 6:34:00 AM Whether it's 1 year or 500 years persecution, brutality, intolerance, forced slavery etal are all hallmarks of Satan's world. Jehovah's witnesses have the only international brotherhood found on planet earth (240 lands) and is a place of rest and a haven for all those oppressed and broken hearted -John 13:35. More info on jw.org

Darrell Collins Date: 7/7/2025 9:07:00 AM Hello Artsy Odyssey. Thank you for the slew of compliments. Nothing in this world is "minimal" as far as I'm concerned. I would certainly be interested in expanding truth through collaboration. Login to Reply

Tom Woody Date: 7/7/2025 5:48:00 AM All bold. I guess you wanted to make a statement. Greatness is a relative term to be sure. Can a man be great when he's cheating on his wife? Can he be great when all he does is boast? Even Jesus refused to be addressed as Good, deferring all such praise to his Father. All glory belongs to God, not imperfect men, regardless of the color of their skin Login to Reply Tom Woody Date: 7/7/2025 11:50:00 AM I'll up ya one better, I am one of Jehovah's witnesses, the most persecuted religion on the planet. Darrell Collins Date: 7/7/2025 9:32:00 AM Be Black for a day, then let's have a conversation. Darrell Collins Date: 7/7/2025 9:15:00 AM Hello Tom. Thanks for your comment. Men were made in the image of God, to include the "imperfect" ones....There's no distinction.