Long Afro american Poems

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...

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What if you were born in the 1800's?
                           ...

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You died for our equal treatment, and we demand "affirmative action."

You died for integration, and we justify segregation when we throw public brawls and destroy property.

You died to stop the Klan and the supremacists from...

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“Dragon stew! “I exclaim “Oh what a funny name
There is no such thing as dragons Aunt T
So dragon stew simply just can’t be”
Aunt T laughs and then she winks
“Well it’s a long story she says...

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People's, people-of a *modest degree*.  Forgive me if something about this poem
is offensive to anyone, my apology to the psyche of your mind that's trying to hide old
wounds, wounds of envy, and transguility. Over...

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Discrimination


Knowledge is power, know your history,
Study his story or her story.
Whichever you favour, to choose your reaction, 
For illumination, learn about the history of your nation.
For history repeats itself,
So make a change, to help yourself.


Learn...

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Being black is not just a figure of speech

Its a noun, adj., & knowing when & when not to turn the other cheek

Many pioneers has lived with the mis representation

While some died fighting to end...

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Chocolate lotus lips
A planted peach tongue
And ebony seeding eyes
I am the garden you greet
With thick calloused thumbs
And warm loving palms

How can I be so selfish
to deny you me to deny me you?
I don’t know about...

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Heavenly Father high above 				
shelter Obama with your eternal love.

Allow all human generations from across the nation 
to come together to pray for our leader to 
give peaceful worldly accommodations.
	
Give him Godly wisdom to direct...

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A Little Phone Call Malcolm and Donald
   by Bob Moore

Hello Donald
That Afro-American President,  lived there just before you
agreed to take these Middle Eastern fellers from Naru
they are a bloody handful, getting worser...

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I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I am the Father and Mother of past, present and future
Peacemakers,...

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(APROPOS OF THE MANY OF US: THE GREEN VILLAGE)


    PROLOGUE:

    Some don’t quite get it…
    Life will reveal it to you:
    Mothers are...

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Prayer for our First Lady-Michelle Obama 

Heavenly Father in the sky continue to give the 
First Lady strength to be by the presidents side. 
Even when unpleasant situations 
 tried to reside. 
  
Continue to have...

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On my computer 
I
play 
   songs of the late 1970's 
 My seed time 
as it were
  ELP, Yes, and King Crimson 
Perhaps I will pick up a recording by 
 ...

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I got a lot of thoughts
rolling around in my head
Idea marbles,
colored black, blue, white and red
That’s very Afro-American of me
to be thinking this way
This ol’ noggin’ got a pocketful of idea marbles,
do you wanna play?
Let’s...

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Just because I had a job
Doesn't mean I was gainfully employed
Or could afford my college degrees
Or even to eat, to sleep
So working low wage jobs 2nd shift
Was one way to look as if
I was head...

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Only when lions have historians
will hunters cease being heroes
we are one nation, one family, indivisible
for us, divorce or separation are not options

Though Blacks first stepped foot in the Americas, in 1518
"racial barriers broken" time passes,...

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I'm a prisoner
A prisoner of statistics & polls
Things I said I would never be
But it all took a toll 
On the way I live my life 
You see I always said that I
Would never be...

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What's in a name,
what say you man of the high mountains
Euro pleasing
 I am not who you say that I am
Elohim my first Father my true love 
My bridegroom He created me 
But yet you...

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Believe me - I am not the best Jew in the world
I have read AJ Heschel though 
Who marched with MLK
Nice to have peace between the black and Jewish communities
One of my first girl friends...

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Sitting at my table 
  Waiting for students to arrive 
   Nearby an very smart Afro American 
is teaching science 
  A friend walks by 
  and we discuss 
comic...

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