signs, symbols, symptoms, and systems
Dist-stance
time and time we create lines and lies circumscribed to describe our circumference size then…
I Dreamed Reflections
I dreamed I fell asleep in a sarcophagus… after swallowing intoxicating thoughts of martyrdom and…
Maraudered
darkness escaped from blackness dreaded color consciousness humanity forgotten truth lost Pharaohs extinct to His-Story…
Politicians
a parade of pariahs parroting paradigms of patriarchy pandering paradoxical principles pundits profiteering partiality pontificating…
Empac-thize
empathize with the devil advocate for the ghettos break ground with the pebbles sympathize with…
Living Liars
there’s this lie one that you must know about me I wrestle with it more…
WayOfLife, the BlackSheep Rebelutionary
I am… a Revolutionary! words of power uttered, prophesized, proclaimed pontificated, enflamed empowered, activated, demonstrated,…
The Case Against: Perpetuation and Prosecuting Plaintiffs
pain perpetrated by privilege promise extinguished by distinction persons distinguished til extinction purpose dissented by…
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The Wisdom, Before the Fool
to know what you are you must see something alike to know who you are…
Animal Kingdom
meek as a lion in a pride full of victims with an eye full of…
Peekaboo
if you face your fears you will see me boo! am I beautiful? freedom is,…
Foolishly Jaded Genies
taken for granted by grant writers granted, I am the grantee before the granter professing…
Realistic Reality
your mind tells you I’m free but your eyes say something different I know seeing…
When is Enough, E..?
cops immune to presumed guilt criminals immune to presumed innocence justice goes to the cuff’er…
A Country of Sharecroppers
who is the modern day slave? not just one sentenced to structured captivity because prison…
American Matters of Fact
when justice and vengeance collide which is most righteous I ponder or might it just…
What You See isn’t What I Got
I hate you America I hate you because you made me hate myself I hate…
The Evolution from a Complex
Dear White Woman I think I loved you to a fault a fault of self…
Modern Day Cain and Abel
why does a proud black man, make for an angry and threatened white man? why…
Madmen
wisdoms philosophies and religions of yesterday have been ransacked today converted to structured forms of…
Depravity
You know why I am so uncomfortable? Because I choose to care. You know why…
As a Matter of Black
I don’t expect you to save me hell I don’t even expect for you to…
The Ridiculousness of Us All
could you imagine if you took being duplicitous or ambiguous to the extreme of imagination…
Jefferson’s Reflection
reflecting on priorities they evolve but rarely change constituting priorities starting with article 1 implementing…
Whitewashing
please stop with your illusions please stop acting as if Americans do not benefit from…
A Talent for Sovereignty
as I grow evolve I must coming aware of what’s needed like veins to a…
Act Out
what I know now I can not let it go it can not be forgotten…
it takes us All
black lives matter because all lives matter so if all lives matter make sure that…
Fallible Makeup
Some think the system is perfect We know it isn’t and We will make a…
Partisan Brawl
as partisans stall we fall but take your time it’s not like we’re dying for…
Sororities
black badge of inferiority white badge of superiority police badge of authority freedom badgered by…
Under the Blanket
it’s a cold world and that I’ve learned I heard someone say do not call…
Nefr Tp(nefer tep)–the highest good
control of thoughts emotions devotion to purpose have in the ancestor’s ability to teach the…
This Sad Race View of the World
the electricity and affinities of Ethnocentricity emboldens a propensity thickening race with density predisposing identities…
Inundation by Separation
let the church decree! “separation of church and state” and the small print might say…
Compensated Reality
through terror- psychological, physical, and systemical- through mayhem- created, formed, and ordered chaos- through control…
Two Sides to a Country
in a democracy the people have a right to criticize their government in communism the…
For the Time, Being
black lives matter until another matter, matters until another form, swarms until another cause, draws…
Stoic Chauvin
mysterious, your last name short for chauvinism stoic and calm, your reserve sure bold and…
It is What it has Always Been
police brutality synonymous with black reality celebrations are for rare occasions an underlying issue and…
The Verdict
guilty guilty guilty I admit, before I heard it I was apprehensive doubtful and nervous…
Too Late for a Job Well Done
it’s not that the shooting wasn’t justified it’s the many times we’ve heard a mother’s…
Shock Value
black oppression is racism black suppression is racism black inequality is racism black injustice is…
Capitalism is Social Distancing
racism is a competitiveness a competitiveness between groups of people where people compete against a…
I Would Like to Smile
I want to smile in fact I love to smile universe willing, I think I…
America is Great
America Is Great be-cauuuuuuse America is Great at innovating new ways to oppress and suppress…
History and Reality Put in Perspective
an estimated 50 million taken an estimated 13 million didn’t make it an estimated thousand…
Rhetoric by Design
to qualify the quality of equality you must first believe in and successfully conduct the…
Should I take the Floor?
how much do I have to speak, for you to listen or how silent must…
Vicissitudes and What-You-Call-Its
first I was, unknown but I was, open arms then I became, bamboozled and thereafter,…
Part of a Plan
inaccurate representation is missed-representation a lack of representation is misrepresentation inaccurate education is miseducation a…
The Forgotten
for I am the forgotten mountain America stands on enjoying it’s mighty view so I…
Incited
I wonder how you all would live when the protections, have run their course being…
Wright, Wronged
I weep for the African American Mothers of African American Men I’m An African American…
Names Hold Weight
as a man of African descent I am no Uncle Tom never have been but…
Bodies aren’t Just Commodities
there have been 1532 souls executed in our country for every 9 killed, there is…
Seat at the Table
how, how can I acquire generational wealth when living through situational hell with, systemic instigations…
Rigged
the system ain’t broke, that’s why they won’t fix it but inequality is beginning to…
What is Darker than Dark?
you know how they say happy wife, happy life well, energy transfers those you surround…
History of People of African Descent in the World and U.S.
history books inside of a curriculum of indoctrination as opposed to educating is more histrionics…
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Residue (song by WayOfLife)
feel like I’m at the bottom, even when I’m at the top well everything don’t…
Learning to Speak and Live for More than Just Me
I tried calling myself an activist but that is a process a process of enduring…
A-merit-cuffs
since birth I was arrested A-meri-cuffs but we are divorced A-marry-ka you do not make…
Can I Live?
Sarah Grimke said, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask from our…
the trial for George Floyd
what is at stake and on trial is police accountability policy culpability conscious and unconscious…
Fool, Money is the Fuel
laws always take time to change and then self-interest or public outcry… then a new…
Don’t Bother
you don’t have enough time to hear the story of my pain so don’t ask…
Benefit by Association
I’m glad Georgia is finally changing from not having hate crime laws it’s unfortunate that…
Religiously Political
we go against God yet claim to act in God’s will we go against Jesus…
Don’t Take it Personal, it’s Just What They Do
it seems like such a long time since the mass building of railroads opiates, grains…
Love/Hate Relations
I love culture I love language I hate color I hate age I love features-…
America continues to say, f#You!
how can our democracy be the moral police of the world and our laws be…
Priviledream
the real American dream is the privilege, or ignorance to actually believe in it I…
Ultimatum
it seems at the summit of black sovereignty and liberation is to not have to…
Color Doesn’t Matter that it Matters
my, this coat of superficial yet rich historical element surfacing shallowly as an arbitrary color,…
matters of perspective (grumblings from the top)
black lives matter, that’s prescribed everyone matters, that’s subscribed everything matters, that’s contrived but everything…
So Disrespectful
the problem with social consciousness… the rebuttals my homie said, you know what’s coming next…
Bordered Up
boundaries create lines lines not to be crossed without permission but before there were lines…
Still dream, my honey roasted caramel-colored black Kings
and they say TV isn’t informing but I worry about the stories they are and…
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Rave About the Butterfly, but You Better Forget About the…
you love my words just not the heart it comes from you love my slang…
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Aiming from the Ground (Lyrics)
(chorus/hook): I been 100 I keep it 100 I’m going a hunned I move like…
Black Cotton
black sheep, black sheep how are you seen? black sheep, black sheep what do you…
Caused Condition (Lyrics)
(bridge): you need me you need me… you made me… (chorus/hook): ima be the bad…
Killing Empathy
Elijah McClain Elijah McClain Elijah McClain Elijah McClain black people, we’re already seen as different…
White People
the more I learn about me the more I learn of our history the more…
Foster Child
If all you do is punish me how can you ever see as anything other…
The 13th Illusion
Emancipation is just etiquette, it armed the hatred swarmed more harm for the hated outdoing…
Kaep-italizing
Capitol says more to me than a state’s highest city, but the many unheralded and…
American Chess
The rules: Civil Savagery If Black and White are the sides, then Color is the…
Road Trip
you see me but you don’t see me you hear me but you don’t hear…
Freedom Writer
often we do the things we have yet to do what started off in our…
Addressing Life
there is a place to which we all exist and that’s everywhere but there are…
Harambee
we can’t strengthen America with policies that separate its families we can’t celebrate America when…
5 Jigsawed African American History Pieces
battered black memories black savages blackened eyes civil liberties yet ask for black submission and…
Roses are Basic
Violets are deceitful, duplicitous and second-tier and Red is too common and choices are too…
Evolving Dream
Give a Beat · "Evolving Dream" by Russell Wardlow A once hoped for, and seemingly…
I Am U
I am black, I am white, I am brown, I am yellow, I am mixed,…
This Sys-tem
This sys-tem is like a cyst this sys-tem is a stem of oppression and isms…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Dear Parole Board
Dear Parole Board I wasn’t supposed to be here Do you know the dark I…