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Black History Poems

These Black History poems are examples of History poems about Black. These are the best examples of History Black poems written by international poets.


Hidden histories: herero and Nama

The holocaust.
A historical event known worldwide 
Taught in every history class
The point being is its known
Why is that important?
It overshadows
It takes the spotlight
It is also
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Categories: africa, conflict, discrimination, history,



black days of history

Black Days Of History
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(10/25/12)

The black days of history that many do not know
And many refuse to accept of how the black man
Helped AMERICA to
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Categories: history, 12th grade,

Insightful Praise of a Pretty Little Liar

Chiaroscuro ballerina,
Rond de jambe in chaînés
Jeté, jeté
Grand jeté

Mariana Victoria,
Your Seiren eyes speak in
Adamantine lies
Forbidden apple gates

Amina Afrikana,
Runes enjambed in chains
Adamantly denying
Grand opries

Bloomeria Guro,
Your six-petaled cries
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Categories: history, africa, allegory, black african

Playing Chess with Rudolf Hess

I’m in Berlin. It’s nineteen eighty-four,
The Army on the Rhine, and I’m a nurse.
I’ve got an ego like an exocet,
(it’s safe enough, if regularly flattered),
and
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Categories: history,

History doesn't matter if its aesthetic

Hot summers dry up the land 
The dirt crumbles under the heaviness of disrespect
Fresh flowers adorn the land 
Covering the uneven burial grounds 
Overshadowed by
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Categories: history, discrimination, marriage, prejudice, race,



Fighting alongside the enemy

Disposable.
Just like the bodies scattered 
As unimportant as the soldiers blood splattered
A black man stands watching violence unfold
Not to the enemy 
But those who fought
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Categories: history, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,

The policing of voice

It's not about tone
Its about policing of voice
It's not about the sound we make
It's the words echoing through them
They don't fear us being seen
They fear
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Categories: history, prejudice, race, racism,

Perfection is a lie told by the white man

Perfection is a lie told by the white man
They say 'the fairer, the better'
But with ego comes the self proclaimed Perfection 
Where what they say
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Categories: beauty, discrimination, history, jealousy,

MESSAGE TO GHANAIANS

Ghanaians are beating 
The drum of shame
For Nigerians 
Which they will later dance to
Calling Nigerians in Ghana 
All sorts of names, due to some misunderstanding
Now
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Categories: history, africa, anti bullying, black

To be black in a white world

The price of being black In a white world 
Is the cost some of us can't afford 
A currency we don't own
Not because we don't
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Categories: history, death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,

The UK was never innocent just cowardly

The uk is guilty too
Stop hiding behind America 
You were involved too
It's time for you to take the stand
Reveal the blood on your hands 
Accountability
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Categories: discrimination, history, prejudice, race,

Just get over it

'Just get over it'
No we still haven't received reparations
And they are long overdue
Why would we get over it 
When you prance around wearing bags made
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Categories: discrimination, history, prejudice, race,

The choices we never got to make

A life of false happiness 
Or death by defiance
They claim we have a choice
But what kind of choice is a life of imprisonment or a
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Categories: discrimination, freedom, history, peace,

White privilege

White privilege 
The ability to exist Without fear
The ability to walk down the streets 
And not jump at every siren
To not calculate every move
And overthink
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Categories: discrimination, history, political, power,

Premium Member Chella

The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl
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Categories: childhood, feelings, friend, history,


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