BlackHistoryMonth
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B is for beautiful
L is for Loveable
A is for Acceptable
C is for Courageous
K is for Knowable
B is for beautiful
For being bold
To be boisterous when needed
-Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Another Country”
In the Other Country-
we each try to mold the other,
unsurprised – though unfulfilled –
when we break
And punish each other as the wicked
In honor of the month that is hushed on school speakers
Torn out of the history books
Dumbed down with empty proclamations of peace
And ignored like white privilege in a country club
Dear Colored People,
Colored or not! We are people and should be treated as so.
Colored or not! I still have to take on the many challenges that come within a day.
From cotton fields
To bloody spills.
From metal chains
To metal clangs.
We still can’t escape
Discrimination.
Started out with
“My color,
Is better than yours.”
Shortest month of the year
They give to remember
Thou diminished by the
Fourteen days reserved
For your one Valentine
[1/09/09]
All great leaders,
But can only be history for me.
I want to praise them,
But for what my eyes can not see.
For they spoke only the truth and the justice of those who could not seek.
I take my coffee black, but was that ever a bad thing?
Bringing back to Martin Luther King preaching about letting freedom ring. The joyful choir sings let the 20th century voices be head
The world is full of people
Sane
And crazy.
We are the sane
Us
Who established justice
Across the land
And gave peace and equality.
We are the sane
Us
