Long Black person Poems

Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and...

Read More

Oppressor and the oppressed.

Who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor?
Who has the right to beat a random person on the street?
Who has the right when to pronounce a person guilty or to see...

Read More

The year of 2022 and we still experience fear. 
Why do you fear us in “Your” neighborhood, especially Black males? You fear Black males, yet Black males may be working for your company. They are...

Read More

The News and Politicians do all of the above.

Causing fear by reporting what the Government 
thinks about Parents attending 
school board meetings.
That they could be * inciting violence. 
(If it is unfounded then it is...

Read More

when we go to jail we get a legal aid lawyer
who  tells us to take a plea even when we are innocent.
when we go looking for a job, we're told nothing is available.
and when...

Read More

Black Lives Matter is a statement of love not statement of hate 
So, please erase the confusion from your face
But they can't hear because they're too busy spraying mace in my face
They keep yelling: s...

Read More

As the world shifted and divided from whites, Hispanics, and Asians and of course African Americans due to pointless killings from the men in blue, the police. Blacks stormed through their cities protesting and looting....

Read More

Black lives matter is a statement of love not a statement of hate
So please erase the confusion from your face 
I wish they could hear but they're to busy spraying mace in my face
They keep...

Read More

When I see a black person go
and vote for a Republican,
I do not think I’ve seen a more
self-hating and disgusting man.
Do they not know of the struggle?
How can they even show their face?
They deserved to...

Read More

I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them some work to do
Labor is the way out of poverty...

Read More

A Town I knew

He was born in a narrow-minded town where a Christian
the party was in power, and there were rules for acceptable 
behavior by stern people who liked to tell others what
is right, of...

Read More

My mind was once tranquil lavender...
an equal blend of blue and red.
Sometimes a tone darker or lighter
depending upon the issue at hand-
Recently its blooming only one color.
Because I've been told over and over.
To shut up-to...

Read More

‘I Can’t Breathe’ 

Please, man, please,
But officer gives me a harder squeeze, 
Mounting his full body weight on me,
Like a white horse crushing a blackbird,
I just want to be free,
But he refuses to move his...

Read More

Serenity was stuck in between The Crowd...
Destinies skin turned Black; Yet Strong and Proud.
The Whiten and Blacken Memories of Harsh Comments stood.
Faith becoming taunted by words from The Misunderstood.
How quickly There were Ones who shoved...

Read More

Nobody loves themself more than a black person does
	nobody is as big-hearted to call strangers ‘bro or ‘cous
	always hugging and kissing to convey what can’t be said
Expressing the way they feel with a gentle stroking...

Read More

It was 8:46: Eight minutes and forty six seconds to solemnly remember;
 George Floyd desperately gasping for breath; until, he transitioned yonder.
Though he pleaded and cried, with every breath, that couldn’t be sounded louder;
Even bystanders...

Read More

Nobody hates themself more than a black person does
	nobody thinks more about things that never was
	always wondering what they could’ve did or should’ve been
If they wasn’t blocked by a color barrier dead-end
	
Nobody indulges in foolishness...

Read More

First sighting

It was an early summer morning when my best friend Edwin 
threw pebbles on my window to wake me up
I like morning slumber, waking up at six, looking at the alarm
the clock on the...

Read More

As I stand in the shower washing my coily hair, seeing my brown skin, I think of how unheard of this simple task must have been, to my ancestors, my kin

How they probably couldn’t shower...

Read More

I'm so sick and tired of police brutality;
  Incidents after incidents of racist White cops 
             Brutally beating up or killing 
...

Read More

look at me, what do you see, look at me
when I look at you, I see a pinkish looking person
but you prefer to be called white

I see you for all that you are, and all...

Read More

He vomited bitter words:

Please, I can't breathe
My stomach hurts
My neck hurts
Everything hurts 
They are going to kill me 

It is the 21st century
But his color was his crime
Spoke like a lonely caged bird 
Lost his...

Read More

What’s the color of forced migration pain?
Ask a black person in America,
and you’ll get fifty different slave answers

What’s the silent sound of invisible chains?
Fifty killahurts of black ... 
Aryan brotherhood iron swastikas uniting

What’s the latest...

Read More

RACISM KNOWNING
Poetic- Life  
JULY 14,2021

Speak of any racist word kills me by hearing the word that’s mostly use is the N word, But the sound of a person talking about my skin color hurts,...

Read More

All white Westerners and Western ideas are inherently evil
Indigenous peoples are all naturally kind and good 24/7
White Western governments are all systemically racist

It is biologically impossible for a black person to be racist
Only whites murder...

Read More