What Is My Name My Name Is Child of God

Test many people are unaware this
 relishing the thought
 Many things have been purchased and bought
 what is a human a thing
 Unless my color is my being
Been birth and born
Shackled dragged and torn
Been a mess been established and put on a shelf
 I was Shipwrecked oh did I say I've been misled and mislead had my own land My own name
Until slave masters game 
Sold for a price
Did I say I had a name
Why is it the price of freedom 
What are the ones that we can trust 
Why is it we're the only race who's been displaced 
Why is it that we're the only race who's been misplaced 
Why is it where the only race
Whose name is not my given name 
Whose name is not my given name 
Say my name
Notice ain't no Beyonce this ain't no Destiny's Child song
 This is serious 
It's been going on for too long 
Who am I what's my name 
And why you keep changing it 
Who gives you the right to dominate it 
Mama daddy where you at 
They keep harassing me calling me that name and every time
 I change every time I reframe
 Every time I turn my head  
I am live they change my name
 I don't know what's my name
 Who am I 
What's my name
 It's so many names
 I'm so ashamed I don't know my founding call
Come on y'all
 Referring to Who Am I
 Who am I and what is my name
 Why is it my caucasian brother's has stolen my true name
 Why is it every approximate 10 years in America
 Approximate they  change my name again 
And again and again every 10th decade 
It begins as such
 This is my curse 
Mike Ross who am I 
It that too ie your name
What?
Hold on  not meaning of Christian name come again and 
What is my name 
This is the first Latin or Niger French word also saying in Spanish born 
***** what ? European route in "Nek"  just what does this mean 
Is this my name from Mother Africa also again 2 my understanding is it " NOK" NOK which means night. 
What? 
Am I called black because my skin is not white 
What?
Alas nor is it light 
What is my name black African 
Physically and bronzed, tanned, dark gray brown, heavy black, blackened color Of the ground color of blood a clayed image formed by the hands of God Anthropologist scientist and my Caucasian Brothers a place the physical title My name is negroid that I am told but what is my name what is my name 
I can't even say it but you have changed it every decade America I am Niger 
I am Negroid 
I am Black African
 I am Colored
I am Negroid 
I am black 
I am black 
African
 I am Afro-American
 I am black I am the only race his name is changed and every census who am I Why is it but I am one of many names 
What is my African name what is my original birth 
Why was I placed on this Earth who am I can I be in charge of my own destiny And change what is my true name what is my name am I Niger and my ***** Am I and okay and my NEK and my black African and my ***** and my Colored am I black am I black African am I
 Afro-American am i black who am I 
And what is my name and now in the 21st century
 I am now called African American but what about those that are born from Africa Are they African American 
What is my true name
 I've been called boy 
I've been called the n-word
 I am the only race it has multiple names
 Every ten years it is changed
 Who am I and...
 What is my name
 I've been called Niger Niger oh
 And he came in
 Okay black African 
*****
Colored
 Black
 Black African 
Afro-American
Who am I
 Instead of my caucasian brother renaming me
 I think I just call myself a child of God
 Who am I and
 What is my name 
What's my name 
What is my name 
What's my name
 I love you all yes we've been through alot of turmoil 
And I hold you not to blame 
Because you've changed my name 
Help me Lord to reframe
What's my name forgive our oppressors freedom to COME?
God bless them
 I need to know from whence I came
..............And what is my name
I am Negroid 
I am Black African
 I am Colored
I am Negroid 
I am black 
I am black 
African
 I am Afro-American
 I am black I am the only race his name is changed and every census who am I Why is it but I am one of many names
 
 I need to know from whence I came
..............And what is my name

2/12/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019


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