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...They captured and tortured my humanity. They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness. Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration, To become yet......

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Categories: negroes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
If ******* would sing
...I was born with a cracked voice and a staggering speech, Sometimes it's harder to tell if I'm complaining or not.... I write poetry and listen to music like I'm on salary to do so, But being part ......

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Categories: negroes, 6th grade, allusion,
Form: Free verse



TO THE VALETS OF FRANCAFRICA
...We are tired of enduring the odious cult paid to the lackeys of Françafrique. This situation is becoming intolerable. It is deeply humiliating to see mediocre and alienated ******* running the ba......

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Categories: negroes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
FOR CENTURIES
...Africa does not belong to the West. Its raw materials do not belong to the West. The banana republics of French-speaking Africa do not belong to France. African immigration cannot be criminaliz......

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Categories: negroes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
OPPRESSION OF FURNITURE PROPERTY
...Their philosophers dehumanized our ancestors. Their missionaries demonized their humanity. Their merchants made them chattel. Whippings, rapes, amputations, For the training of wild ******* w......

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Categories: negroes, 12th grade, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Let Haiti Be Absolutely Free
...Let Haiti be absolutely free Haiti is the father of Freedom and Liberty Haiti is the first nation to forever ban or abolish slavery And the slave trade in the western hemisphere And in the world ......

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Categories: negroes, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Purpose Drawn To Disorder - Them Mind Games Tag You'Re It- My Spokenword
...Never mind games tag you're it, What's my true purpose here am I to be really cute and feared My not name blaspheme and smeared This unknown gospel to the center is it made clear As I......

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Categories: negroes, allusion, analogy, black african
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Can'T Breathe - Black Martrys
...Earth is sad Flesh is sand Shadow is black My skin is dark. Black man down White man's town Tweets and Hashtags Protests and Blackcards, But the system is Prejudiced Jury men in white r......

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Categories: negroes, africa, america, black african
Form: Free verse
Government Teetering Upon Precipice of Anarchy Abyss Two
...executive, judicial, & legislative colluding bozos feigning, grinning, hobnobbing... arrogant beastie boys and goo goo dolls sporting snazziest custom tailored (swiftly) made harried styled fancy ......

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Categories: negroes, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Zealots and Evangelists
...Within sleepy sheep folds of retributive divine justice postponed til kingdom comes and diva queens go to hell where we sinfully belong like all unfaithful ******* refusing to shuck and jive ......

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Categories: negroes, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Tribute To Dawn of Day: Stories From the Underground Railroad
...Tribute to Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad From Tennessee Virginia Mississippi Kansas Wisconsin To free states in the north and Canada I grieved upon the grave of the......

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Categories: negroes, christian, cry, death, evil,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member We Were Slaves--1619
...Over 400 years ago, the arrival of 20 or more enslaved Africans are called ‘The Beginning of USA Slavery', which are much more complex than that. We were kidnapped from Angola, forced on a Portugues......

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Categories: negroes, africa, age, america, black
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Ne'Er-Do-Well, a Black Sheep
...He didn't mind his father, ran away from home Barefoot boy, dressed in rags; hair never met a comb Never attended church or school, lived down by the river Taken in by a proper widow, he cursed hi......

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Categories: negroes, freedom, irony, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Righteous Indignation
...Righteous indignation I am emotional I am anger Over the mistreatment Insults Malice treatment of others What a sense of injustice to the babies, little children Righteous indignation I am e......

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Categories: negroes, analogy, assonance, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Fifties Were Really and Truly Not All That Square
...The Fifties were really and truly not all that square Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she......

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Categories: negroes, conflict, culture, history, myth,
Form: Rhyme

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