This man was one of the torchbearers for modern poetry. R.I.P. Oscar Brown Jr. we can only hope the children of children will, at the very least, turn out with voices as eloquent as your own.
sampled this and made a deep house track from Oscar's poem. I have also used a sample of a young girl singing a skipping song to capture the innocence of youth. Please listen , any comments welcome. I would like to rework some of Oscars material and bring to a new younger audience who might not get to hear him. soundcloudcom/lewis-fisher/lewis-fisher-children-live
The current generation have grown up with the government giving them all the important things in life on a plate. Education, housing, clean water, food, clothing and job prospects. But this has lead to a generation with a huge sense of entitlement who sneer at jobs that they see beneath them and would rather be given money for free. Reality tv and social media build a picture in individuals heads that they should be famous or at least have what others have without doing anything worthy for it.
this poem isn't about honoring our elders this poem is about the results of having a child at too young of an age, and how no one cares about these children
I wasn't reffering to what the poem is about. I'm celebrating the wisdom in it, and the fact that we don't always appreciate the wisdom years of living give our elders, or how precious they themselves are, and the truths life teaches them. So that we don't have to go through a mess if we would only listen and learn that way. I remember sitting up late with my Grandmother as she told us the same thing. And stil... you know?!
it's about collective responsibility and commitment, which is foreign/alien to those who want to individualize and "moralize" what's happening to our young people.
It is about time that the Black and Latinos communities deal with this issue of children having children. This has such an effect on us when young people who are still children themselves, who can not take care of themselves, who are not educated enough to get a job outside of minimum wage for a life time of poverty can only give their children poverty in return. Socioeconomic status shows that most end up on welfare and government housing and never get off. It is time for a dramatic change.
@ABSAT01 Blacks and Latinos aren't the only ones who have this problem. There are just as many whites having children when they are only children too.
This poem.....Pushing all ignorance aside this poem is the defenittion of this generation.....The love is gone....Children are battered and broken and angry...The is no Respect....There is no discipline because they subconciously destroy the past when mother are no longer mother and father are only shadows....And through it all still only just children...The world isnt the same....I think thats what he was trying to say....
@Thesongbird623 This is a poem about the human experience. Distant parents and teen pregnancy is not an invention of generation X. We like to think that the future is doomed, but in reality teen pregnancy rates are no different from the 50's and things like domestic and child abuse rates have gone down. Yeah there's a lot of angst, but I was just talking to my grandpa about his HS experience when segregation ended TALK ABOUT ANGST. Gen X is full of love, just need to open your eyes to see it.
That's what I got out of it. I think people hear from poetry what the want to hear. You and I wanted to hear it as a cry from an old man looking at a younger generation that is knee-deep in self-destruction and looking for a way to convey that to them. But I guess some other people wanted to hear something else.
Such an eloquent poet. Thank you Oscar for being the voice that uttered a poem of so much fortified truth. THANKS for the upload. Respect to the children of children they cry out everyday and what'll you say!
loved this. i believe it's timeless spans across wide cross sections of classes. Sadly, it will be relevant for most of our lifetimes. This piece is a work of genius.
Oscar is a great poet...but don't bring him down by calling him "black messiah". The man is bigger and better and more important than the colour of his skin will ever be...when you put that label on him, you make him an instrument of division, a tool of isolation...a way of separating light from dark, a way of saying: "If you don't look the same as him, his words are not for you."
Time to leave "black" and "white" on the garbage dump of history where they belong, and let PEOPLE BE PEOPLE.
Actually, I am trying to make it as a writer at the moment. I haven't read out my work in front of an audience, though...to do what Oscar does takes a phenomenal amount of courage!
@garethac81 That will never be, Garethac81. It's the saddest thing I have to say. People like Oscar help break down these type of walls that infinitely stay up. The day society ends is the day "white" and "black" mean nothing.
@garethac81 I love the fact that most people wish to move on from times when colour lines reigned supreme. I wish people could just be people but we are still treated differently according to skin colour and to pretend this is no longer a problem is an insult.
It is not divisive to point out the truth. This poet addreses issues which disproportionately affect black people so yes some BP may look to him as a leader. This in no way means that no other race can take on board his wise words.
People are defined by the content of their character...THAT'S the truth. People are defined by the colour of their skin...that's the lie. As long as you think of Oscar Brown as "a black poet" instead of A POET...you're still believing the lie. Believe the truth, my friend.
@garethac81 I mean you no disrespect but how i feel when say that people are defined by their character and not skin colour, is a lot like how i feel when someone who has always had ridiculous wealth speaks on what its like being poor. You have the privilege of ignorance to that reality. There is no reason for you to ever really grasp a grave frustration running throughout your whole race consciously and unconsciusly. You have nothing to compare it to. It's neither your fault or your problem.
@garethac81 Racial division is not what my point was about so your point is your own and not really a response to anything i have said here. Quoting me before making your statement about racial division is a total misdirection. Punchy though. You could be a government speech writer! If you have no comment about what i actually said i guess we're done here. Peace.
@garethac81 Please know that i am not saying you do not have the good sense to imagine or even have experienced prejudice yourself. What i am saying is that for many black people, hearing Oscar comforts wounds. Wounds you could never know.
Check out his other stuff. It's pretty clear where he is coming from. Oscar Brown is "a poet". To pretend i cannot see and hear in much of his work that he is black is just silly.
Again. I'm not disrespecting you. Honest! We can agree to disagree. Peace.
@garethac81 WHAT? It's time to take black and white out of the garbage dump of history. We need to stop looking to the future as a melting pot of one homogenous experience. Instead I like to think about it as a salad bowl. Each ingredient is different and has a different history, but they all come together to be greater than the sum of their parts. I'm tired of people saying that we need to distance ourselves from what makes us different OWN YOUR OTHERNESS! It just gives the salad a better taste
The "otherness" you are so determined to own is a sociological illusion designed to obscure a biological reality. The concept of "race" simply doesn't exist in biological terms. It was invented by ignorant explorers who didn't have a clue what melanin was. They just saw people who looked different, and that frightened them...so they started using "race" to dehumanise and segregate different coloured people. Your celebration of "otherness" is a celebration of ignorance and fear.
As for "giving the salad a better taste", who says acknowledging that "race" is a myth means everyone has to think and act exactly the same? We live on a planet with extraordinary cultural diversity - diversity of ideas, traditions, art, architecture, literature, fashion - and there is nothing stopping us from celebrating this diversity WITHOUT measuring it in drops of melanin.
ok i understand hate, i just moved to nebraska and got a new understanding of the word biggot, but this is so much more than a simple empowerment poem, its a cry from an old man with a lot of wisdom, hes not just speaking about the world entraping him, hes blaming those who let him be trapped, those who refuse to break the endless chain, and those who dont even try, its about our generation not focusing on the prison you we are in, but changing the world before our children are born in it
so true if u dark skin the world makes u feel like ur nothing...abuse is not only physical its deeper when its emotional... and The wound that touches the heart not even the doctor can repair... if you could hear the sound of my heart when people look down at me cus i am darker in few shades its screams louder than the lonely graves.
i feel you, racism has hurt me. I live in a bit of a backward market town in north west england. one day i was crossing the road on the way home from school
(still in my uniform) and a nice man took the trouble to say "get out of the way nigger!" It hits you somewhere you can't defend
this is kind old, but anyway, I think as a white guy, that he is not critic about the "white system" but yes to all the system created by either black, white, latin or else. The system is what has been f****n the world, not only itself but also the ideas of the peopple who made this system. "They" crushed the nation, the World Wide nation. not only american or african, the whole world is damaged, that's what he is tryin to say, that's what the world need to understands.
ok, so i know his comments are kind of old, but i just have to comment on how pathetically empty kungfuetc.'s life must be if he has this much time to watch art like this that he clearly doesn't understand, and can do nothing but make banal comments...
listen im white and i hate it that some white people are that prejudice to say shit like that, it makes me and america look bad, i think this was deep, and it brings out emotion and for a white racist to say the n word i wont even say it because i respect people whether youre black white tan or fucking blue everybody is equal, and if you cant get that then FUCK OFF
I honestly don't think he's bagging out white people... I'm asian myself and i think he's commenting on the system that identifies negativity with the black concensus...
we should have 3 co. presidents from different parties 2 to slap the 1 acting dumb or 1 to slap the two acting dumb either way this would eliminate abuse of power...
problem there is if the people who needed to hear this listened, then the problems that this poem adresses wouldn't exist, it's a bit catch-22 like that
when something seems like it will never reach irrelevance, i take it it is a message from God. that's my sentiments as far as this poem is concerned.
TOO SAD INDEED!
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I'm lying,me too!!
way2sick1983 6 days ago
This man was one of the torchbearers for modern poetry. R.I.P. Oscar Brown Jr. we can only hope the children of children will, at the very least, turn out with voices as eloquent as your own.
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mind fuck
Ch1ris23 1 month ago
sampled this and made a deep house track from Oscar's poem. I have also used a sample of a young girl singing a skipping song to capture the innocence of youth. Please listen , any comments welcome. I would like to rework some of Oscars material and bring to a new younger audience who might not get to hear him. soundcloudcom/lewis-fisher/lewis-fisher-children-live
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MynameisZara1 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and gift!!!
sebastiancat4 2 months ago
wow
cayterr 3 months ago in playlist Def Poetry Jam
omg....this is the reason for the london riots of 2011.
raccoonman14 4 months ago
My uncle was one of the greatest spoken word poets that lived
Pettis357 4 months ago 3
this guy makes me shake with emotion
ranoosha1210 4 months ago
for more poetry visit this link
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FierceAce 4 months ago
Wow. Simply, wow.
fireguy777 4 months ago
Dr. Suess should have got into def poetry...
jonesyop 5 months ago
@AnticolonialSettler yea i get that
thisisacunt 5 months ago
The current generation have grown up with the government giving them all the important things in life on a plate. Education, housing, clean water, food, clothing and job prospects. But this has lead to a generation with a huge sense of entitlement who sneer at jobs that they see beneath them and would rather be given money for free. Reality tv and social media build a picture in individuals heads that they should be famous or at least have what others have without doing anything worthy for it.
soseccs 5 months ago
R.I.P Oscar Brown Jr. The world lost a tremenduos artist the day you passed away. Your greatness will forever be remembered through your poetry.
TheAraber93 6 months ago in playlist Poetry 4
those 10 dislikes are "hiding the results"
Fivestar191 6 months ago
we are all these children no matter how young or old..and he realized IT
Fivestar191 6 months ago
I LOVE this poem. We don't honour our elders enough, this is why we stay foolish for so long.
Glynnisable 6 months ago
@Glynnisable
this poem isn't about honoring our elders this poem is about the results of having a child at too young of an age, and how no one cares about these children
jhniscolV2 6 months ago
@jhniscolV2
Hey
I wasn't reffering to what the poem is about. I'm celebrating the wisdom in it, and the fact that we don't always appreciate the wisdom years of living give our elders, or how precious they themselves are, and the truths life teaches them. So that we don't have to go through a mess if we would only listen and learn that way. I remember sitting up late with my Grandmother as she told us the same thing. And stil... you know?!
God bless and take care
Glynnis
Glynnisable 6 months ago
although this poem has a very clear and concise message, the way the words are spoken what we enjoy and that poem is top quality.
rhooster28 7 months ago
This was sampled???? I have heard a song with this poem....i think is Nas
MRTRILLAJACQ 7 months ago
WOW....I THINK I'M ACTUALLY SPEECHLESS
openlid45 7 months ago
RIP oscar jr.. you are one of a kind
kruni2 7 months ago
it's about collective responsibility and commitment, which is foreign/alien to those who want to individualize and "moralize" what's happening to our young people.
SIstahTime 7 months ago
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SIstahTime 7 months ago
I'm not lying, I cried when I watched this.
MegaPrettyinpink09 8 months ago 11
@MegaPrettyinpink09 Understandable.
AfricanPrincess999 6 days ago
hard body
trip2tuvo 8 months ago
It is about time that the Black and Latinos communities deal with this issue of children having children. This has such an effect on us when young people who are still children themselves, who can not take care of themselves, who are not educated enough to get a job outside of minimum wage for a life time of poverty can only give their children poverty in return. Socioeconomic status shows that most end up on welfare and government housing and never get off. It is time for a dramatic change.
ABSAT01 8 months ago
@ABSAT01 Blacks and Latinos aren't the only ones who have this problem. There are just as many whites having children when they are only children too.
NarutosButterfly 8 months ago 3
Beautiful
AmberMSmith2010 8 months ago
Man, this guy is a beast of a poet.
CMLacinaPoetry 9 months ago
deep stuff dude.
LilBlitz116 9 months ago
If only there were a solution.
HeroicNerd 9 months ago
epic
notpresentlyhear 9 months ago
He's like... if Dr. Seuss grew up overlooking the hood. Respect to both.
rwcwetback 9 months ago 3
a fantastic man
humba14words 10 months ago
this man is deep if you really let them words seek in
thatnigga1023 10 months ago
i love how this guy walks out onto stage, like he owns the place....... cause he does.
bigblackmamb 10 months ago
This poem.....Pushing all ignorance aside this poem is the defenittion of this generation.....The love is gone....Children are battered and broken and angry...The is no Respect....There is no discipline because they subconciously destroy the past when mother are no longer mother and father are only shadows....And through it all still only just children...The world isnt the same....I think thats what he was trying to say....
Thesongbird623 10 months ago 39
@Thesongbird623 This is a poem about the human experience. Distant parents and teen pregnancy is not an invention of generation X. We like to think that the future is doomed, but in reality teen pregnancy rates are no different from the 50's and things like domestic and child abuse rates have gone down. Yeah there's a lot of angst, but I was just talking to my grandpa about his HS experience when segregation ended TALK ABOUT ANGST. Gen X is full of love, just need to open your eyes to see it.
limm300 6 months ago 2
@Thesongbird623 That was a poem that you just wrong. Lovely :).
AfricanPrincess999 6 days ago
this isn't a poem about bigotry, it's a poem about condoms and education.
kungaofsheol 11 months ago 4
@kungaofsheol
That's what I got out of it. I think people hear from poetry what the want to hear. You and I wanted to hear it as a cry from an old man looking at a younger generation that is knee-deep in self-destruction and looking for a way to convey that to them. But I guess some other people wanted to hear something else.
briandee 10 months ago
@briandee i think what he's saying is how they are already being brought up to fail in that respect.
leltard 9 months ago
#DoBetter #change our #future know your past
rockickmusic 11 months ago
made me cry
agbasset 11 months ago
Not that I don't like free flowing poems, but you gotta love a nice structured rhyming poem.
MarkArandjus 11 months ago
Who's your favorite poet on the Def Jam Poetry series?
zarenj21 1 year ago
@zarenj21 Rafael Casal
iiMavrik 10 months ago
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TheAlexZub 1 year ago
THANKX MAN!
blessthepoet 1 year ago
How in the world could 9 people dislike this? Apparently some folk have no taste in true poetry.
0Raigauchiha0 1 year ago
deep, true and very necessary..
derricklove5883news 1 year ago
i wish he was my grampa
sweetjulz67 1 year ago
this man is a def poet and a wonderful conversationalist. meet him and you'll see
KnuckleheadSag1989 1 year ago
@KnuckleheadSag1989 unfortunately he died
king78802 1 year ago
@king78802 wen?!?!?
KnuckleheadSag1989 1 year ago
@KnuckleheadSag1989
May 29, 2005
king78802 1 year ago
wow..... just wow.
AnimalJam 1 year ago
@AnimalJam
I thought the same thing once I saw dem' titties rofl...
Xosviet 1 year ago
I agree garethac81 and I'm mixed, tired of that colour shit thing....:/
kingpoe1 1 year ago
RIP
Amaan305 1 year ago
He should read doctor seuss books out loud. I'm not demeaning this poem, he just has the voice for it.
weflylow2183 1 year ago
his deliverance is so moving!
mrshineright 1 year ago
The children of chrildren are
led astray
by lies that make cries of
sorrow and pain
bboyatlas 1 year ago
wow thats a jr?
BludStatic123 1 year ago
you say shut up!
mnypwrrspkt 1 year ago
Reminds me of a black santa lol
Jmoney11193 1 year ago
Love this !
twitter/Pierre_Gerard
dosxmucho 1 year ago
this is the truth
Cuphold3r 1 year ago
Damn Grandpa you never seize to amaze me. Very deep man! RIP Oscar Brown Jr.
Bonethugett 1 year ago
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Amazing!
noniuice 1 year ago 3
"they beg for rescue and what do you say?" that line was great ever.
Harwer2 1 year ago
The fact he has a simple, short message and can still leave a huge impact...
denyinevrythng 1 year ago
"The perils of teenage pregnancy and a lack of proper parenting/ moral foundation."
we are ALL responsible for guiding the focus of younger generations to find moral foundation.
be the change
chedca 1 year ago 2
most legit poem syle poem instead of rap style poem on def poetry...
mxguy69 1 year ago
'Trapped by adults, who fail them then jail them to hide the results' wow
misledgravy 1 year ago 58
Damn that was real
Invincible327 1 year ago
R.I.P.......Wisdom.....Pure Wisdom.....
tsofie 1 year ago
Well done the Moor! Well done!
TheNobleMoor 1 year ago
beautiful eyes
79506170 1 year ago
Nice
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langa209 1 year ago
so profound and true
great poem by a great poet
jumpyourbone 1 year ago
"the children of children by the time they're have grown have habits like rabits and young of thier own"
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langa209 1 year ago
Definitely up there with Langston Hughes. Oscar is amongst my top five poets.
CHSBayhawk 1 year ago 2
Such an eloquent poet. Thank you Oscar for being the voice that uttered a poem of so much fortified truth. THANKS for the upload. Respect to the children of children they cry out everyday and what'll you say!
CHSBayhawk 1 year ago 3
what a G
huntedrasta 1 year ago 2
word
rock90123 1 year ago
Wow...I love this one, so true!
witheyeslikethese 2 years ago
This is real poetry!
It is so deep, real and raw.
Amazing
Illuminatiii 2 years ago
"...the Children of Children being
trapped by adults
as they nail them
nd jail them 2 hide the results.."
WOW... this guy needs 2 b a rapper.. LoL..
dbates1215 2 years ago
Fresh Shit. HOLLAAAAAAAA at your boy
rock90123 2 years ago
no...
mybrainondrumz 1 year ago
HOLLA AT UR MOTHA FUCKIN BOY!!!!
rock90123 1 year ago
Yes, he nailed... He is a true legend and has changed my life
americanallstar3 2 years ago
This is beautiful, really glad I was able to find this, thanks to the uploader
crazygyx 2 years ago 2
respect ............he is a great Poet and special one about children of children !!!
thekingakaitsme 2 years ago 5
Beutifully written and well executed my friend, very moving and compeling.
cneale31 2 years ago 3
I have always respectewd and honoured your work. You are amazing!!! God (Allah) Bless you my brother.
Professor Shahid.
shajam5 2 years ago
truth, passion, reality, a work of beauty and brilliance
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woooooooooooo0o
we are soooooo programmed
jeez LOOSE ME!
♫Jesus breaks every fetter♪
0honey0U 2 years ago
i agree....
agradecido21 2 years ago
That was so real and so true!
stylebug 2 years ago
loved this. i believe it's timeless spans across wide cross sections of classes. Sadly, it will be relevant for most of our lifetimes. This piece is a work of genius.
Yadubya 2 years ago
hotep! nice poem! this is the black messiah the poet.
MESSIAHTHEgOD 2 years ago 2
Oscar is a great poet...but don't bring him down by calling him "black messiah". The man is bigger and better and more important than the colour of his skin will ever be...when you put that label on him, you make him an instrument of division, a tool of isolation...a way of separating light from dark, a way of saying: "If you don't look the same as him, his words are not for you."
Time to leave "black" and "white" on the garbage dump of history where they belong, and let PEOPLE BE PEOPLE.
garethac81 2 years ago 390
@garethac81 ever thought about doing readings or prose yourself?
ScoobyBBS 1 year ago
@ScoobyBBS
Actually, I am trying to make it as a writer at the moment. I haven't read out my work in front of an audience, though...to do what Oscar does takes a phenomenal amount of courage!
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 AMEN!!
InternalNEternal 1 year ago
@garethac81 dude ive just copied and pasted this reply. i like you. not in a gay way.
dtm876 1 year ago
@dtm876
Your compliment is gratefully received, and no less valued for its platonic nature :)
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 truest thing ever
nedetsontryton 1 year ago
@garethac81 That will never be, Garethac81. It's the saddest thing I have to say. People like Oscar help break down these type of walls that infinitely stay up. The day society ends is the day "white" and "black" mean nothing.
TDoanLe 1 year ago
@garethac81 I love the fact that most people wish to move on from times when colour lines reigned supreme. I wish people could just be people but we are still treated differently according to skin colour and to pretend this is no longer a problem is an insult.
It is not divisive to point out the truth. This poet addreses issues which disproportionately affect black people so yes some BP may look to him as a leader. This in no way means that no other race can take on board his wise words.
blujazjeans 1 year ago
@blujazjeans
People are defined by the content of their character...THAT'S the truth. People are defined by the colour of their skin...that's the lie. As long as you think of Oscar Brown as "a black poet" instead of A POET...you're still believing the lie. Believe the truth, my friend.
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 I mean you no disrespect but how i feel when say that people are defined by their character and not skin colour, is a lot like how i feel when someone who has always had ridiculous wealth speaks on what its like being poor. You have the privilege of ignorance to that reality. There is no reason for you to ever really grasp a grave frustration running throughout your whole race consciously and unconsciusly. You have nothing to compare it to. It's neither your fault or your problem.
blujazjeans 1 year ago
@blujazjeans
"It's neither your fault or your problem."
Racial division is EVERYONE'S problem.
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 Racial division is not what my point was about so your point is your own and not really a response to anything i have said here. Quoting me before making your statement about racial division is a total misdirection. Punchy though. You could be a government speech writer! If you have no comment about what i actually said i guess we're done here. Peace.
blujazjeans 1 year ago
@garethac81 Please know that i am not saying you do not have the good sense to imagine or even have experienced prejudice yourself. What i am saying is that for many black people, hearing Oscar comforts wounds. Wounds you could never know.
Check out his other stuff. It's pretty clear where he is coming from. Oscar Brown is "a poet". To pretend i cannot see and hear in much of his work that he is black is just silly.
Again. I'm not disrespecting you. Honest! We can agree to disagree. Peace.
blujazjeans 1 year ago
@garethac81 WHAT? It's time to take black and white out of the garbage dump of history. We need to stop looking to the future as a melting pot of one homogenous experience. Instead I like to think about it as a salad bowl. Each ingredient is different and has a different history, but they all come together to be greater than the sum of their parts. I'm tired of people saying that we need to distance ourselves from what makes us different OWN YOUR OTHERNESS! It just gives the salad a better taste
limm300 1 year ago
@limm300
The "otherness" you are so determined to own is a sociological illusion designed to obscure a biological reality. The concept of "race" simply doesn't exist in biological terms. It was invented by ignorant explorers who didn't have a clue what melanin was. They just saw people who looked different, and that frightened them...so they started using "race" to dehumanise and segregate different coloured people. Your celebration of "otherness" is a celebration of ignorance and fear.
garethac81 1 year ago
@limm300
As for "giving the salad a better taste", who says acknowledging that "race" is a myth means everyone has to think and act exactly the same? We live on a planet with extraordinary cultural diversity - diversity of ideas, traditions, art, architecture, literature, fashion - and there is nothing stopping us from celebrating this diversity WITHOUT measuring it in drops of melanin.
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 isn't it things like that that he was talking about? being indoctrinated with these notions of division.
leltard 9 months ago
@garethac81 Amen.
CMLacinaPoetry 9 months ago
Amazing....
witheyeslikethese 2 years ago 3
chilling and true. words of wisdom from the wise
nychee0885 2 years ago 3
Deep, real deep man.
PrinceVice 2 years ago
wow the poem wasn't even that long but it was REALLY deep
shaydm06 2 years ago 7
OMG I cried man.
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GoldenLibra 2 years ago
GoldenLibra:
yes I did, its touching when you understand and feel what he is saying.
TariqDreamer 2 years ago 4
racism is a system we need to talk openly about it
05311990frog 2 years ago 7
Great way to put it, thats exactly what it is a system, a machine. Someday maybe someone will stop it.
BMIKE909 2 years ago
each one teach one, it only takes one to change one, try tell somebody else that then open a dialogue
05311990frog 2 years ago 5
I don't think you guys are right about this.
PRINCESS0RAWAN 2 years ago
i know God got a great place for him because he's one great poet... RIP
coolcrooger 2 years ago
R.I.P
you da man Oscar
arosteguidj81 2 years ago 3
ok i understand hate, i just moved to nebraska and got a new understanding of the word biggot, but this is so much more than a simple empowerment poem, its a cry from an old man with a lot of wisdom, hes not just speaking about the world entraping him, hes blaming those who let him be trapped, those who refuse to break the endless chain, and those who dont even try, its about our generation not focusing on the prison you we are in, but changing the world before our children are born in it
mrxwarrior 2 years ago 47
legendary
66829673 2 years ago
now that my friends is poetry, that is what a legend is... that.....is that in which is never forgotten.
murdock4151 2 years ago
Damn. Me, too, I was silenced by that one fo' sho! What could I say?
diepiriye 2 years ago
r.i.p.
TapasCJ 2 years ago 5
omg did he die?
keseytam 2 years ago
Love it
LyricalSerenity 2 years ago
so true if u dark skin the world makes u feel like ur nothing...abuse is not only physical its deeper when its emotional... and The wound that touches the heart not even the doctor can repair... if you could hear the sound of my heart when people look down at me cus i am darker in few shades its screams louder than the lonely graves.
ashahashi 3 years ago 4
i feel you, racism has hurt me. I live in a bit of a backward market town in north west england. one day i was crossing the road on the way home from school
(still in my uniform) and a nice man took the trouble to say "get out of the way nigger!" It hits you somewhere you can't defend
hayeder 3 years ago
cuz people like that end up in the trunk...
no matter what people say about others ...be well known to yourself... be truthfull to your believes... and one day u smile of what u achieve;)
PalingLcw 2 years ago 2
but ya know God screams louder and more powerful than any negativity, and thats the greatest peace and natural beauty attainable
tommybrown187 3 years ago 5
this is kind old, but anyway, I think as a white guy, that he is not critic about the "white system" but yes to all the system created by either black, white, latin or else. The system is what has been f****n the world, not only itself but also the ideas of the peopple who made this system. "They" crushed the nation, the World Wide nation. not only american or african, the whole world is damaged, that's what he is tryin to say, that's what the world need to understands.
c3l0w 3 years ago
amen.
iloveyamygirl 3 years ago
i disagree but not to argue but i got a different meaning from the poem entirely
repsaj8990 3 years ago
ok, so i know his comments are kind of old, but i just have to comment on how pathetically empty kungfuetc.'s life must be if he has this much time to watch art like this that he clearly doesn't understand, and can do nothing but make banal comments...
briankempton 3 years ago
...& to think: There are thousands of kungfuetc's out there mocking this art...
headknockinhoney 3 years ago
wtf are you tlakin bout?
rINGbOOSIE 3 years ago
listen im white and i hate it that some white people are that prejudice to say shit like that, it makes me and america look bad, i think this was deep, and it brings out emotion and for a white racist to say the n word i wont even say it because i respect people whether youre black white tan or fucking blue everybody is equal, and if you cant get that then FUCK OFF
100shellz 3 years ago
I honestly don't think he's bagging out white people... I'm asian myself and i think he's commenting on the system that identifies negativity with the black concensus...
maybe im being too deep...
you need to be more open minded mate.
oneteaspoon08 3 years ago
Wow... this man speaks a hundred lifetimes of wisdom.
AbsoluteEnding 3 years ago 11
and he does it under 2 minutes
z3r0t0l3r4ns 3 years ago 2
Sorry guys i ment to push the thumbs up buttons! Dumb ass
Couni76 3 years ago 3
rest in p.e.a.c.e god
knowledge2knowledge 3 years ago
he was a real cool guy..he wuz my grandpas uncle so i got a chance 2 meet him a few times
i wish he was still alive...,.his poetry was deep ...so real
R.I.P Oscar Brown JR. u r loved
wnbaplaya007 3 years ago
I am upset to find out this man has passed away. His face and voice, not to mention his verse, echo wisdom.
peace
DondiWhiteRIP 3 years ago 4
that was deep. RIP oscar
faithsy89 3 years ago
This one and This Beach are my two favorites of all the ones I have seen on youtube.
mm89f 3 years ago
Dame Oscar that was deep your gone and we weep, Im glade you've been set free. Were all children of children- God Bless
BrryHaze 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
talk about a fidel caastro luk alike?
billy5490 3 years ago
God Bless, may you rest sweetly.
May God bless me as he has so blessed you to perform all the days of my life... Let poetry keep changing lives
Freedomwrites 3 years ago 3
This guy has a certain style that nobody really usess anymore..
The A,B,B,A format of poetry... I love it, keeps it flowing nicely and the rhyme patterns sound good!
SammyJ21 3 years ago 4
we should have 3 co. presidents from different parties 2 to slap the 1 acting dumb or 1 to slap the two acting dumb either way this would eliminate abuse of power...
Sojaofdapepo 3 years ago
this is on the blakc market militia album. awesome
ssir9 3 years ago
well the thing is the problem does exist and if young adults listened now then the problem would fade away, but the poem would remain as a reminder.
kdubs711 3 years ago
problem there is if the people who needed to hear this listened, then the problems that this poem adresses wouldn't exist, it's a bit catch-22 like that
z3r0t0l3r4ns 3 years ago