Long Slave owner Poems

It interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds 
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  One Knee 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  September 2017


One Knee

Yes, I kneel down on one knee 
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem 
of...

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We often lament long-term effects of slavery
on those enslaved across multiple generations.

Enslavement leads to addiction and codependent denial,
then is taught and mentored to enslaved children,
also separated from family and sold,
until third generations and beyond
were dressed...

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Kenneth Cloke
historically outlines the widening and deepening
and merging and submerging
of elite/non-elite
publicized/privatized ego/eco-politicians.

Earth's perennial health/pathology contests
lie between LeftYang domination
over-powering RightYin suppression;

Slowly at matriarchal pre-historic first,
then, now, much more quickly
and Western invasively,

From slave-owner v slave,
to kleptocratic aristocracy...

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Dear Thom the Train
Attorney Page,

Defender of all Creatures
here below
in these DisUniting States
of throwback uncivil disunion,

What is your root foundation
for a constitutional argument
that all living residents
of these remaining United Democratic States
have a right
to restoring healthy justice,
to...

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Everyone is searching for answers in the midst of current tragedies 
Two unarmed black men and five white cops gunned down mercilessly 
Black in Americans are incensed over the slaying of so many black men...

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Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner,
We know this from history.
And when he died, most were solid,
And very few ever let free.
Yet Jefferson himself put down the words
That led to our great progress,
When he said men...

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My friend had said
Oh! Father
 What color 
My eyes my skin's shades
 Of many MELATONIN (what)
 I have a white mother 
And yet my father's
 black 
From what am I 
What race am I 
They...

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If you were a Christian
during various Inquisitions
and pogroms against Jewish communities
and aboriginal tribes,

If you had been a Christian slave owner
trading lack of co-empathic love
for your zealous theoretical salvation agenda,

Would a faithful Moslem or Jewish witness
reasonably...

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It's not the exchange rate or demand I value,
When I think of any United States Dollar;
I think of the currency note or coin whose view,
Depict biographies of persons of valor...

John Quincy Adams, nation-thinker of no...

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I was miserable. Bounded by chains and beaten by whips until she came.

She was a woman with an outstanding beauty not of this world. Lezora

was her name. She was sent from another time. The woman...

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Be not afraid
To fight the right fights
The hate, the hatred
To regain your rights
To end bigotry, racism
Fascism and nepotism.

Be brave
Like a heroic slave
Who is not afraid
To be whipped, raped
By an inhuman master
By a greedy slave owner.

Be...

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Dear Donald,

Yes, George Washington was a slave owner.
He also wore a wig.

I suggest you adopt the latter,
and don't worry quite so much about the former,
because we are not about to Just Say Yes
to becoming your...

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I am black and I say to kindred flames...
Never assert nor cry "things are the same".

It is the height of dishonor to our fathers,
Our hidden figures of the past, and our martyrs.

We no longer must...

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A complicated issue may often be better understood 
By breaking it down into a few undeniable facts. 
This is especially helpful with comprehending 
An issue that is new, or unfamiliar.
For example:
Thomas Jefferson was a famous...

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You think that
You know who
I am 
Because of the 
Color of my skin
And the fullness
Of my lips
You think that 
You know who I am
Because you see
My sisters’ and brothers’
On mtv
Entertaining this
Sick society
Where they praise
Glory and...

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where im from
the streets are paved with gold
everyone smiles when you walk by
there is a million choices
dreams are sold cheap

your pockets get fat, so does your belly
no one worries
no one fears
if you don't like whats...

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