An African American Poets Spoken Word Illustration of the State of the Black Nation!
The State of the Black Nation (2012) by Kamal Imani c2011
The elephant who George Jefferson would call honkeys are treating the Donkey like he's a monkey and it's all smelling real funky.
The elephant who George Jefferson would call honkeys are treating the Donkey like he's a monkey and it's all smelling real funky.
They want Obama to stay in some drama so they can tell their daughters "don't you ever bring one of them home to your mama"
So they can say see I told you so
Cause yo
With the way we're hating on each other, he's the one thing we can point to as proof that we're not all jiggaboos and wanna bees
see
If black people had just one thing, we'd all be king and that one thing is LOVE!
Self love
If we'd be thinking of loving our neighbor and applying Jesus' teachings reaching outside of the stained glass windows of the church, we'd truly have swag and that's a drag on a roach joint because it seems that- black power -is a thing of the past
now sponsored by Coca Cola, McDonalds, Seagrams, Chuck E Cheese and Ford Motors.
Uhuru Black Power
The Ku Klux Klan has taken a long term time shared vacation, because black people have mastered the art of self extermination.
As Pants sag with fag swag 2 earrings at times but considering themselves thugs for committing senseless crimes. Bragging about loosing their minds and f'n the world but don't have a domestic or international outlook
We got guns but don't know the power of a book!
Ignorantly complacent with the status of crooks who shook ones
"We be Juvenile delinquents dun"
Did you mean to say dumb?
While the black beusougsie runs around with their noises up in the air
Still trying to get close to the white collar dollar which is on the verge of default
Some black pepper still hates itself so it must integrate with salt and then
wonder why their blood pressure is so damn high.
We have fell from being Avatars to Humans to reptilians
And wonder why
It seems like we're under a spell of ignorance that we just can't seem to be breakin!
This is the state of the black nation!
We need entrepreneurship as our new occupations!
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An undisclosed news tip from a very high and well trusted source says that a revolution is brewing in America!
Notwithstanding that in black America the revolution has been on and poppin!
The blacks are having a civil war and revolution against the blacks
Killin cats over colors and crack cause real parents they lack due to post traumatic slavery syndrome
I mean this goes way back
But there are no victims only volunteers
And I love my black people so I still shed tears cause it hurts so bad!
To see you creating a gas chamber type condition to put yourself in. Damn Man!
Police killin us with tasers, Dr York, H Rap Brown, Mumia and Wesley Snipes locked up and black folk do nothing!
Who got cha back black? Damn!
Will we boycott Easter and Xmas when we are mistreated and disrespected?
No we will not, cause you think this is a joke.
We been here for over 500 years and bypassing us is the Hispanic folks
But I'm not mad at them. They have unity. They cherish family
But yall think yall are imitating the mob. Ha very funny!
See we all about the Benjamin's baby= Get money
And I want some too... so when you blow up don't forget my high yella ass
But not to the point where it becomes our god, a golden calf.
We say we stompin on the devil, but he's kicking our black ass
Midget ass immigrants just arrive, set up a store, we buy all their ish and they look up at us from 3 foot 4 and laugh while they speak their alien ass language in front of us after taking our dough.
We have become comedy, sisters hating sisters, basketball wives
Oh, my girl got a show I gotta watch it tonight
It's on the colored channel, girl we've arrived!
This is the state of the Black Nation!
Somebody please resurrect The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Elijah Muhammad and Noble Drew Ali, Mary McCloud Bethune, Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Bob Marley and then and only then can we feel alright! With a blackprint in our hands and a vision to have some self love in our community, power and respect in this land
Yes we can yes we can can!
This is the state of the black nation
Somebody turn to your neighbor and say
"Neighbor, It's Ressurection time, Can we come again?"
Available on Bandcamp
http://kamalimani.bandcamp.com/track/the-state-of-the-black-nation-2012
Coming to cdbaby and itunes 8/7/2011
Bless the mic magazine!
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Now this is spoken truth
makeda2010able 5 months ago
@makeda2010able Thank you Queen!
cipherkam 5 months ago
This has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook, thanks..
PoetryETrain 6 months ago
@PoetryETrain I give thanks! True indeed, but "We gon make it".
cipherkam 5 months ago