Lynchings Poems - Poems about Lynchings

...'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 of our skin Sitting your privileged self'......

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...IN SAGE TREED INSPIRATION Standing in the forested arena Beneath one of the multiplicities Of the ethnicities of barked sage trees Reining in the mutual oneness Of the equanimity of their bei......

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...when we look at ourselves as extraordinary Black people of color we can surmise that we've endured more than any others separate but equal, Jim Crow and slavery Black folks have taken a licking fo......

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...Leading his horse in the heat of the day Been gone a long time but he still knows the way Just a few shacks when he went for the gold He’d found a few nuggets but now he’s too old So, home to t......

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...Witnessing the blood baths, the massacre Of God’s people, children’s bodies everywhere, And octogenarians expire slowly and quietly in horror. The undistorted and the vivid images of terror, The ......

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...Write a long poem And get the premium membership for free Why is there always a criteria constructed by fellow bees But we always make it a challenge as we always aim to please Like writing ......

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...* For Billie Holiday * the devil swings with the pain Billie brings to the song of a sparrow, once lost but heaven cries with the drug in her eyes and the weep of a willow's sad ......

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... Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down At the Citizens bank they halted, it had been a long ride Four then entered......

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...We've been exposed to too much discrimination Simply because we are Black Our African heritage appears to be Like a target on our backs Some cops believe that over us They had the power of death......

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...when it's taught and they see it or hear it, then they speak it, 'that's a shame', but who's to blame it's not their way to seek it weaponry and hate are a combination for an unnatural an......

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...This is what the local examiner preaches Lynchings, or killing someone by hanging, historically were mostly used by whites against black men in the South beginning in the late 19th century, accor......

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...Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson A brand new sheriff came to town I'm sure he's not the last We've had fourteen in the past year They leave here mighty fast Some can't stand the pressure Others end u......

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...india divide divide between what is sensed and what is not rural india,urban india divide south india,north india divide india divide divide between what is sensed and what is not mob lynch......

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...I've gone through some emotional, Spiritual and mentally challenging days And I've learned to keep my faith in God In the face of my dismay I know hard times will always come And that there wi......

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...You're bracing for the hubristic lecture it's not here The crux: unvarnished understanding of how blacks see their outlook for life Only narrow options: they can give in, go through or ......

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