Blackman!
You have developed a little bit of social conscience masquerading as a brother in the know.
Talking all the rhetoric and borderline ignorant ****. Talking bout down with America and back to Africa! Verbally pissing on the Red White and Blue. Talking ‘bout what black folks need to do cause white folks ain’t been fair to us and you and you slinging a little knowledge like you have completed the quest to gain true knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

But black man what you fail to realize is that in your shouting “down with America and back to Africa” that the African in your blood has been tainted by ideals of this American flood that washed dead bodies ashore on the coasts of new worlds. **** since you have been here you have be so socialized, de-African-ized and dehumanized, mentally programmed to the point that you cant even see with your own eyes for while you declare that I am ignorant, and I have sold out, and I am the great-great-great-great grandson of my Uncle Tom, that your conscious *** don’t really want to go back to Africa, unconsciously that is.

You sreamin’ “down with America and back to Africa?” You expect to take 66 Impala, with the 22’s and the boom and the bounce and that **** Dirty South? You expect to take your Phat Farm by Russell Simmons, and your Viton by Louie, and be raggin’ and saggin’ your 2 year old in Fat Albert with Fat and Rudy dancing on you *** across hot desert sands? **** you ain’t ready for a village – you *** can’t handle a housing project! And that woman, the other woman, that’s not you wife, her *** would be dead under the law for sexin’ you up behind you wife’s back so in you r back to Africa paradigm how many murders would you have committed by way of your wayward penis?

You screamin’ “down with America and back to Africa?” You want to go back to the Motherland for the sake of the black man, the African, - Snapshot! Today – Rival tribes, Muslims and Christians, raid villages and kill young men, black man, rape young girls, African, take the breasts of nursing mothers, black man, burn huts, African kill livestock and all we want to do is pump our fists about Mandella, Cry Freedom, and the former atrocities of Apartheid precipitated by a white South African government. Brother you cant’ handle paying rent, taking care of your children, lovin’ their Momma, keeping a job, black man, getting a free education, African-American, stayin’ you trifflin’ *** out of jail, black man, and living in a land of ease, African-American!

You screamin’ “down with America and back to Africa!” **** get on the boat! Lets’ go!

Put down you American made MAC-10 of the projects for a
German made ooze of the shanties.
Trade your $600 gators for $1.50 pair of open toe, open heal sandal that take 1/3 of your pay.

Trade your “bling bling” for tradition hemp crafted ornamentation that
only trade for 10-15 dollars in the US.

Come on my African Brother in America.

Down with you plush white carpet and
Up with your hut decked out with the hot sands of Z
Zimbabwe.

Down with land of the free and home of the brave and
Up with militarily fortified government
where the coupe’de’taunt is the order to the day and you king sleeps under armed
guard and you survive alone.

Down with free speech in American –
Up with Tanzanian policy – speak against the
government – we’ll cut your tongue out and feed it to you after you watch of brutally
dismember your wife and children.

Down with your free-lovin’, booty killin’ existence –
Up with an aid epidemic of catastrophic proportions where the first piece of pure Africa *** you
chase is your last if you catch it, cause you caught it and that is the end.

Down with the snap, crackle and pops of black gangs spraying home is South Central, New
York and Boston -
Up with police raids, and militia raids on villages in the night,
plundering and pillaging for gain.

Down with welfare and all that **** you getting on EBT –
Up to you having 11 children in the hopes that 3 can survive into adulthood

Down with the county hospital –
Up with you sitting on hot sands, in drought stricken lands with your 8th baby dying in your
sobbing wife’s hands.

Naw – Black Man – while you screamin “down with American and back to Africa”, you better think before you jump you black *** on that boat.

Cause you ain’t just a black African – your *** is red, white and blue American! Peace.

streight raw
something to think about
the distence between hype and reality

for sho my shaz. we need to real - be black and real!! peace

this was heavy and raw and on point
thankz for sharing this one fo sho brutha
wow!!!!!!

yes, str8 raw wit it.. got my mind moving....

bouncing dis one back up

i appreciated this as a caution against a romanticized idea of africa but even though we've been colonized (americanized, if you want), the problems of africa have the same cause as the problems of african people here. (african american if that's easier to swallow). and i don't think the solution is just to focus on the negative aspects of africa like america is truly the home of the free and land of the brave. cause how did america get to the place where it's considered the wealthiest nation in the world?

certainly appreciate your candor poet. much love for the read/reply. be assured, i look not with rose colored glasses. i the ills of this country and you are so very right. as responsible as i hold our oppressors for yesterday and today, i much more hold our people responsible for tomorrow. i feel you, deep. know, - i love our blackness, our beauty to behold. stay on the wall poet and keep enlightening our people.

now this is a piece that speaks to me by leaps and bounds. it has all the making of a macus mosiah garvey dream sprinkled with the wisdom of w.e.b du bois and booker t. washington.
excellent piece.

Blackman!
You have developed a little bit of social conscience masquerading as a brother in the know.
Talking all the rhetoric and borderline ignorant ****. Talking bout down with America and back to Africa! Verbally pissing on the Red White and Blue. Talking ‘bout what black folks need to do cause white folks ain’t been fair to us and you and you slinging a little knowledge like you have completed the quest to gain true knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

But black man what you fail to realize is that in your shouting “down with America and back to Africa” that the African in your blood has been tainted by ideals of this American flood that washed dead bodies ashore on the coasts of new worlds. **** since you have been here you have be so socialized, de-African-ized and dehumanized, mentally programmed to the point that you cant even see with your own eyes for while you declare that I am ignorant, and I have sold out, and I am the great-great-great-great grandson of my Uncle Tom, that your conscious *** don’t really want to go back to Africa, unconsciously that is.

You sreamin’ “down with America and back to Africa?” You expect to take 66 Impala, with the 22’s and the boom and the bounce and that **** Dirty South? You expect to take your Phat Farm by Russell Simmons, and your Viton by Louie, and be raggin’ and saggin’ your 2 year old in Fat Albert with Fat and Rudy dancing on you *** across hot desert sands? **** you ain’t ready for a village – you *** can’t handle a housing project! And that woman, the other woman, that’s not you wife, her *** would be dead under the law for sexin’ you up behind you wife’s back so in you r back to Africa paradigm how many murders would you have committed by way of your wayward penis?

You screamin’ “down with America and back to Africa?” You want to go back to the Motherland for the sake of the black man, the African, - Snapshot! Today – Rival tribes, Muslims and Christians, raid villages and kill young men, black man, rape young girls, African, take the breasts of nursing mothers, black man, burn huts, African kill livestock and all we want to do is pump our fists about Mandella, Cry Freedom, and the former atrocities of Apartheid precipitated by a white South African government. Brother you cant’ handle paying rent, taking care of your children, lovin’ their Momma, keeping a job, black man, getting a free education, African-American, stayin’ you trifflin’ *** out of jail, black man, and living in a land of ease, African-American!

You screamin’ “down with America and back to Africa!” **** get on the boat! Lets’ go!

Put down you American made MAC-10 of the projects for a
German made ooze of the shanties.
Trade your $600 gators for $1.50 pair of open toe, open heal sandal that take 1/3 of your pay.

Trade your “bling bling” for tradition hemp crafted ornamentation that
only trade for 10-15 dollars in the US.

Come on my African Brother in America.

Down with you plush white carpet and
Up with your hut decked out with the hot sands of Z
Zimbabwe.

Down with land of the free and home of the brave and
Up with militarily fortified government
where the coupe’de’taunt is the order to the day and you king sleeps under armed
guard and you survive alone.

Down with free speech in American –
Up with Tanzanian policy – speak against the
government – we’ll cut your tongue out and feed it to you after you watch of brutally
dismember your wife and children.

Down with your free-lovin’, booty killin’ existence –
Up with an aid epidemic of catastrophic proportions where the first piece of pure Africa *** you
chase is your last if you catch it, cause you caught it and that is the end.

Down with the snap, crackle and pops of black gangs spraying home is South Central, New
York and Boston -
Up with police raids, and militia raids on villages in the night,
plundering and pillaging for gain.

Down with welfare and all that **** you getting on EBT –
Up to you having 11 children in the hopes that 3 can survive into adulthood

Down with the county hospital –
Up with you sitting on hot sands, in drought stricken lands with your 8th baby dying in your
sobbing wife’s hands.

Naw – Black Man – while you screamin “down with American and back to Africa”, you better think before you jump you black *** on that boat.

Cause you ain’t just a black African – your *** is red, white and blue American! Peace.

wow. :pool:

Straightforwardness without hypocrisy, well said Brother, Peace.

Godssoulja, j'hiah, 1poetsougt - thanks for the read fam. Been along time since I've been on the scene - so thanks much.

Peace
Preach(klabarron)

I see that i am in the right place. Enjoyed it. Hopefully this will wake some bro's and sis's up.

My son(s)/daughter(s), you have tagged some very key points and your writing is exquisite and very poetic. I applaud you in your creative genius. We have learned well to negate even the very audacity of the idea of claiming our Afrakan-ness, never mind the Continent, our Motherland. We have learned that from many centuries' thrust of white supremacy. When truth is two slices that cover a lie hidden in between, it is known as a “lie sandwich”. It is one of the most succinct devices known in maintaining control of a group, or of groups of people. It is when the truth looks so-ooo good on the outside, (white bread) but in between, the lie is still there. You don't see it, you don't taste it, but when you eat the sandwich you are still swallowing the lie.
Let's not continue to perpetuate what is already known to be the common hype. My generation and those before me have been sold for so many years the “lie sandwich”—the untrue picture of the continent of Afraka. We already know better than to buy that story. However, in a desperate state of myopia, youth are seemingly not in recall of that or have somehow missed the knowledge of it and so are destined to become bamboozled by a repeat of their his’tory not known. It is well known that there are several wonderful, peaceful nations on the continent that are rich in resources and are growing economically. I have only traveled to one, which is my husband’s homeland and that for educational purposes. I met my mother-in-law whose magnificent and gracious spirit permeated the fact that she speaks only her language. I met many family and friends there who embraced me warmly, desired my return and wanted me to stay. I didn’t only because there is family here on this continent that I love and missed. I hope to visit several more cultures on the Motherland before deciding where I would live if I move to the continent of my forefathers.
I have also traveled to three countries on the continent of europe, where I found it cold, dirty and immensely unfriendly. There were incidents of positive interaction. I was there doing research and was able to accomplish much. But, I was glad to get back to the Canadian border where I grew up. It is true that in some areas of Afraka there is unrest. Khemit is not whole and it is no longer a single entity. While it is correct there is unrest and corruption on the continent of Afraka, it is thanks to euro-colonialism. Thanks to the infiltration of the natural order of things in Khemit, neo-colonialism provides the unrest upon which the slant of this poetry rides. And, on our slow train to destruction, we, the gullible, who hop aboard its rhythmic pulse, if we are not careful, will ride it to our demise.
We who have not been taught to think critically will grab hold of something that sounds nice on its surface and ride the wave of its prose. When I was in school, logic was taught. The illogical progression of this prose is known as band-wagoning. It is a collection of glittering generalities that leads to incorrect conclusions. That course was phased out of public school curricula by the time I was teaching. At that time, teaching adults was a second-level consideration so the program I worked for was gravely under funded. So, ironically, the outdated books from which I taught still had the chapter on logic. If they hadn’t, it wouldn’t have mattered. I taught it to my students. Not surprisingly, because my students were able to apply logic to their test taking strategies, I graduated some of the biggest numbers of GED students in that very large school system. I knew that this could be applied to any test taking strategies. We began our outreach program, Sankofa Community College, based on this premise and the fact that the system of education in this country is not going to teach this way. It doesn’t intend to. It was never intended to enable growth of a working class culture. This culture will never thrive unless there is a working system to keep a class of people to do the bidding of another in place. It doesn’t have to be the Afrakan. It just happens we are the easiest to target and control. So, for now, we are it. And, will remain so as long as we keep feeding on the lie sandwiches they have trained us to eat. Those we have also been even trained to create for ourselves. We write our own back doors to avoid the knowledge that we are only best served by having a cultural base. That base is Khemit, currently known by the euro-retrogressive name, Africa, a name that itself means to divide.
As on the continents of europe or asia, there are varying cultures and nations in Afraka. But, unlike those continents, Afraka is vast and has been divided by euro-peon colonialism into dozens of non-indigenous segments. Much larger than europe, and still more vast than asia, it is only logical that on that much land there would be a variances and differences. Add to that mixture, obvious as well as not so obvious incentives to control populations and you have the makings of what generated this prose. We don’t have to necessarily move to, or live in Afraka to be Afrakan. But, in order to thrive in a global society, just as those who are rooted and grounded in cultures from which they hale and have been for centuries, all but we… we will not only have to claim the continent of our ancestors if we want to rise above the things you write of in your greatly stylized rendition. Granted, there are those of us who are not ready for Afraka. Of that much you have well spoken. We realize and sincerely appreciate that point. But, if we are to rise above that level of, as one of the scholars you aptly reference in your essay refers to it, “negritude” we will ultimately have desire to embrace, travel to and perhaps at some point even to live on the continent that is our land.

Akosoa T. Adjei
Curriculum Resource Consultant
Kofi Obibini
Director of Afrakan Affairs
Sankofa Community College
P.O. Box 16582
Atlanta, GA 30321-0582
404.344.6454 (Main Campus)
678.549.9607 (Outreach & Weekend Shule)
678.614.9058 (Afrakan Affairs)

Been some time since I was on - so pardon the really late response. I thank you so much for your position and education provided. It is my hearts desire to see and know from whence we came. Humbly received.