Black Poetry : We In Trouble Now

[Heartbeat]

Hablas español?
You better
Montezuma's revenge is not the water
It's the re-taking of America
Starting with Texas and California

Even in Utah and Billings, Montana
Phoenix, Cleveland, New York
And the city of Savannah
White folks scared
Leaving cities in masses
Hiding behind overpriced homes
SUV's and Oakly Sunglasses
But there is nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Stand up anywhere
A hispanic person is by your side

Doing the jobs no one else wants to do
That don't fare well
For Black folk like me and you
While we playing ball, singing and dancing
Millions of the latest minority
Soon to be majority
Are paying the price for advancing

Lawmakers in Washington are very concerned
Border patrols stretched too thin
Ellis Island suddenly too small
America is changing
Where does that leave us?
See the writing on the wall

Not all ebony people are wasting away
Many are quite serious with no time to play
But not in the numbers we need to keep pace
Are we falling behind yet another immigrant race?

And while America keeps a keen eye south of the border
Plans have not been scrapped for a new world order
A world the "White Right" wants to somehow fix
I'm here to tell you
We are not in the mix
But Brown and Yellow people
Have nothing to fear
As their numbers increase year after year

Watch out now!

BE

 

[GQ]

BE,

Tell it brotha...we most def be in trouble fa sho!!!!

Peace
GQ

 

[alyce]

BE

Again, your ability to pinpoint our position/condition on the map of 'current events' is always on hit. Thank you for keeping it ever before us the way you do, lest we sink into complacency.

The journalist in you is always calling the 'conscious party' into proactivity! We betta reckanize!

Write on!

A

 

[UbZoRbShUn]

hey heart

me habla spanglish.... You know you are correct in this piece. Im from Atlanta and my grandparents live in Albany,GA. I tell you every time I go visit I find myself looking at my brown brothas and sistas all ova the place. And you right cause they will work that $5 an hour job and you betta believe they got another one on the side. Where as some of us can't work a job unless it's paying $11 or more but you don't even have a ged so how in the hell you thank you gon make that kinda cheese.

*you have stimulated my pearl on the real*

One

 

[N2urSoul]

Aye papi ~

Tu hablo espan'ol?

Permita de mi sepa... con mi, es po quinta!
Gracias amigo...

I hear ya' like Austrian Crystal brotha!!