My Brother, you truly are my Brother as all people in the Diaspora are from Mother Africa.
The African Diaspora
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Diaspora
Being Colored
Just so you know, I’m not Black anymore. I’m not African-American. I’ve gone back to being Colored. That’s what my mother was and I’ve decided that’s what I’ll be from now on. Used properly, I believe it has a universal elegance. It captures the world’s people spectrum. Used inappropriately, it still conveys Us vs. Them, Them vs. Us or any way round you want. Unfortunately, if you’re looking at it either way, there’s the problem.
Black Men Rise Revisited
Like the sun and the tide
Black Men Rise
Like the thing in you throat
the thoughts in your head
Black Men Rise
Though lies get us
lynched and castrated
denigrated and incarcerated
Black Men Rise
Though we take a knee
we do not bow
but raise Olympian fists
Black Men Rise
Though daily
taken off the count
through loss of liberty
and life
though we bleed
and die
as often as others
so we can all be free
we wait for a plate
and a seat
while others now get to sit
and eat
pressure on the wound
is no more than a finger in the leak
The damn will break
the land will flood
crops will be lost
and cows will drown
not still
but still
water runs deep
Black Men Rise
Dear Humanity; Black Men Rise
#BlackMenRise
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