signs, symbols, symptoms, and systems
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…
More History of People of African Descent in the World and U.S.
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…
More Still dream, my honey roasted caramel-colored black Kings
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…
More Rave About the Butterfly, but You Better Forget About the…
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…
Symbliminal Messaging
Removing symbols aren’t the solution but in a society of symbolism and their creeds idolization…
Riding the Emotional Hump
I’m inconsistent insufferable overbearing and insensitive at times I say I’m passionate but I may…
Rapped Tight Prose Verse
I’m tired of living this life I’m tired of living this life I had to…
Friendliest Foes
Agreement often times creates ignorance and blindness it’s in the face of opposition that we…
Our state- ran by brilliant billionaires
Uh we have the most billionaires per capita in the U.S. here in Nebraska. Pete…
Capitalism rites, write rights
This country was always capitalists or at least headed that direction there’s no heart in…
Unheralded Nebraska Corrections
Everyone flies over walks past or stops by this middle America Nebraska our crime lowered…
Drugged
Drugs or die do drugs or die doing drugs cuz I wanna die doing drugs…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Contempt Contentment
Right before I enter my room I look into it’s narrow window and it’s small,…
Compiled Compliance
You want me to be myself but more like you, more in the way that…
Fighting Odds
If the faculties I possess, which help me to identify my emotions and react with…
Peeping Through My Window Part 4
“Peeping through my Window pt 4” I’m a boy. From 2007, I left my group…
Peeping Through My Window Part 3
“Peeping thru my Window pt 3” I’m a boy. Relationships, where do I even start…
Peeping Through My Window Part 2
“Peeping through my Window pt 2” I’m a boy. We all gotta grow up sometime…
Peeping Through My Window Part 1
“Peeping through my Window Pt 1” I’m a boy. We have this patriarchal society that…
Looking Back-in
The saddest thing is making plans far down the road at a date where you’ll…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
Formatted Function
Function is a formed matter of perception function can’t deal with dysfunction nor can it…
You Don’t Know How I Feel
You don’t know how I feeel …inside you don’t know how I feel …inside you…
E=MC^2
Life is your economy fueled by energy, empathy and economics on this journey the car…
Societal Farmers
Take a look at who you process those innocent kids thrusted into statistics poverty and…
Changed the Same
Reva Siegal created a term called–preservation through transformation–wherein white privilege is maintained, while the rules…
Chained Change
Prison is a unique walk that is, if you’re looking to grow and mature because…
Black Pandemic
Promises “progress” poverty public policies politicians profiteering police prosecutor prison parole and presidents(dead or alive)
Vote: Biden/Trump
Voting either or is better than neither nor Because if we’re only spoken for Then…
So smart I’m Stupid
Too smart for my own good too smart to do no good but too smart…
Uneven Measure
I have a question why when our public servants make mistakes they are able to…
Better if I Say it
Gotta get used to talking about myself if I want the world to know me…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Psychos Therapy
Psychotherapists should look to set up in prisons if they really wanna make a difference…
Cultural Wardlow
I’m a cultural war I’m a culture at war I’m a casualty of war I’m…
Young R.U.S.S’ WayOfLife-style
Racism, injustices, inequalities and their perpetrators never rest. As we speak, Trump is trying to…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
P.O.W.E.R.
When it comes to matters of power, the human in us is first reluctant- That’s…
White Knights
The effects of colonialism in this country have not dissipated. The crippling clutches of capitalism…
Plucked Flowers
We’re all plucked flowers paying attention to the surface while the reality beneath is of…
Errday my birthday
I die so much daily living to reflect on the happening the next day surprised…
You’re smarter than this
“You know you better, you’re smarter than thisyou have so much potential, but you harbor…
Rewarded Punishers
Imprison me and it’s a political and capitalistic win-win Prepackaged, a voteless tax write off…
Misconstrued Nature
People will find a reason to separate and hate if not given enough reasons to…
White Vigilante
Born on my own land I am my own man I have my own plans…
Everyone is a Felon
Either in conscience or act. The only line of difference is my color. Every so…
Privates Exposed
Let’s expose our privates. All privatized industries should be leaned on so heavily with oversight,…
Upstanding
How can we rise up if there’s nothing to stand on? Because they stand tall.…
I is U
Putting someone’s personal pain in perspective is like a mirror once you see yourself now…
Cop Out
We’re not taught nor encouraged to trust legal figures they do more harm than help…
What have you done for me lately
So I’ve noticed more police campaigns and commercials advertising what they do for us now…
Take my Place
I’m not everything you want me to be but this is my lifethis is not…
Here-US
Nebraska doesn’t hear us or they just don’t care and no one outside of Nebraska,…
We, the many
Every able bodied man and woman should seek to create platforms from the positions of…
Blasé
Sky is blue everything black and white I am grey…or gray
More than an Object of your Subjection
We won’t shut up and dribbleWe won’t juke and jiveWe won’t stop kneelingWe won’t stop…
Cost to Change
Money!That is the barometer of changeThose who have it vs those whom don’tThose that have…
Paint Poems
I paint moments and put them in poetrycuz if I rapped it most would attack…
Pros’ Poems
Don’t walk away from medon’t build a fortressand forestour fortuneforcingour forfeitforgive me for myinformal forumsforages…
Real Paradise
Within our SPIRITS Flowing throughout our bodies Which we can express thru our hearts and…
Fight or Flight Fright Night
You fight or flight change I fight or flight for change Though my fright of…