Triumphant Leaders Part 3

Toussaint they dance in Louisianna, and New Orleans Omitting to say that these two places are blood money paid Unto the colonies, snuffing your revolution by any means Subtle French diplomacy that history would parade Solutions of lies in the revolution that Crispus made Afro-centric leader, pioneer liberator, O that you could see Images of this decrepit shadow, the deal made Haiti to be ***** colony collapsed like a mildew rag upon a golden sand. Temple here again another citadel of freedom in the sun. Let the great Dessalines call from his slave barracks again Organize him with them, make them all fighting men Unique in the vision that Boukman intuit theology revived Visions some racist philosophers native animism would deprive: Existential, mythical, ontological, the awakening more than Revolutions fleshed by blood, the black man mind lifted up Tents and tennacles of the genius that sailed seas of sand Unrope again the slave from sugar tea in that Liverpool cup Rebel intellectual, great Toussaint, Napolean's luster fades Eclipsed by the glory of your name across the new decades. Federick do you think you people now forget how you paved Erosions in the great emancipator's cause, until he relented Digressing from the act of enslaving men. The West craved Expansions of their new fronteir, on the back of the tormented Remnants of the Atlantic trade, but you kiting in war winds Instigated through fly of words, a subtle shift of rumbling breeze Call for that genius, they sent you to Haiti, cutting the string of sins Keeling towards a black liberation without the bended knees. Due to you are laurels, when Afric's children in their van On to brighter future, rise from where the day began Under dark bush of morning, where a slave use to sit Gathering knowledge and self teaching the burden to acquit Let children today learn, education is not a white light Africa's lamp was the dawning of the culture that brings might Straddling the seas, O race, be a Douglas, set wisdom in your sight.