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Voluntary Negro

VOLUNTARY ***** if i didn’t know who I was, would I be your voluntary *****? shhh we don’t say that word anymore ***** who gave that word power? Ni**er! is that better? worse? does it make you squirm? feel uncomfortable? it doesn’t bother me until it’s uttered from the lips of those who use it to cut down to the bone i am not your voluntary ***** i do not believe i am less than anyone some would have you believe their evolution eclipsed ours long ago that a slave mentality is all we should hold that we will never be more i beg to differ KL.

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Date: 6/6/2021 6:42:00 PM
I can appreciate your words. I wish this world were different but it is not. Stay strong in your rites...I wish I had the strength you appear to have. great words in your verse.
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Date: 7/3/2020 10:00:00 PM
This poem is Baldwinesce and that's a good thing. Thanks for sharing...............peace!
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Date: 6/21/2020 1:38:00 PM
Powerful words... Great poem.
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Kimberly Larocca
Date: 6/21/2020 2:10:00 PM
Thank you. :)

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