mammies...
sambos...
toms...
coons...
Nursewife to your children
Sewer of your wounds
Indentured servditude
Kings and Queens
Princes and Princesses
Bow at the feet of the helpless
Till fields for the ignorant
To gain praise
Respect
Acknowledgement
Royalty...defaced
Diminished
Defiled
Desensitized
By white-men-dressed-black-face
By 'high yellas' passing in high society
For identity lost in the shuffle
Principle lost at sea
As Kings and Queens
Princes and Princesses
Leave their dignity behind
To nurse American children
And sew American wounds
To birth mammies; sambos--
toms and coons
To trade the adornment of wealth
For the shackles of bondage and slavery
For identity lost in the shuffle
Royalty...defaced
1 comment:
This needs to be posted somewhere VERY public. My fav line? "Till Fields for the ignorant" That was some explanatory stuff right there. Like what I do for work every day, lol. This is great please read this from the hill tops for everyone to hear. Perform this somewhere, send postcards to friends with this on it. This poem seems like a new style for you and you do it well.
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