Be Strong & Courageous

New poem: “Who Am I, What Am I (Black History)

diaryofayoungpoet:

Who Am i, What am I, do you even care or am I just

another face going unnoticed. The government killed

most of our leaders, we got to brave in the heart.

Self hate, self conscious, self righteousness, why we

all hating on the skin that makes us alike, we can scream

MARTIN HAD DREAMM, but do we really care about the people

or is money the only motivator. They say Black Power is angry

but were in a country where our existence is almost erased.

It’s time man, woman, and child, dark skin, light skin come

together see how beautiful we really are. Kids screamin

WHO AM I, WHAT AM I, stop worrying about who’s radical

and who’s not, teach these kids about the Angela Davis’

Bell Hooks, Bobby Seale’s, Fred Hampton’s and Booker T.

Washington’s. Tell kids they can be a Champ like Ali

and rock the world like Frazier. Show them the spirit of Assata

and they will be free. Too many young black boys gettin

shot by cops and they fellow brothers, when they should

be finishing school and learnin what it means to be a

strong black man until they can’t breathe no more.

Young Black girls turn off the video vixens and walk like

a Queen and see you are beautiful. We’re stronger

united than divided, it’s time we do it for our culture,

do it fr the people who never made it. Were suppose

to have penitentiary minds, broken car batteries for hearts,

and bodies of animals, we overcame that, but were still

fighting within ourselves. Soon it wont be Who am i, What Am i

but I Am What I Am.

BY: Thomas Stewart

Ps: this was inspired by Toki wright’s Poison Ivy Track

Posted 3 months ago — 8 notes