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BEN WALID
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SOUTHERN HERITAGE

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What is southern heritage to me

Lynching, slavery and misery

Suppression of dignity and citizenship

Suffering under a madman's whip

 

What is southern heritage to me

Working myself to death - for free

Toiling on the old plantation

My contributions hidden from the world and nation

 

What is southern heritage to me

500 Trillion Dollars of work for free

Half a Quadrillion Dollars whites stole from us

We slaved while they sat on their lazy butts

 

What is southern heritage to me

Some whites wishing all blacks were not free

And because of greed and stories untrue

I hear people saying I’m better than you

 

What is southern heritage to me

Human beings hanging from the strange fruit tree

On their way to heaven they look down to see

Their murderers looking up at their bodies in glee

 

What is southern heritage to me

Water cannons bringing old women to their knees

German shepherds join in on the attack

Of so called policemen on unarmed blacks

 

What is southern heritage to me

Working until it's too dark to see

Tobacco and cotton bending my back

For clothes less than rags, a house less than a shack

 

What is southern heritage to me

A study in sheer hypocrisy

Flags wave in their hate filled glory

Representing only the white half of the southern story

 

What is southern heritage to us

To see this and shake our heads in disgust

Doing all that you can to reduce our esteem

Living a nightmare that you call a dream

 

What is southern heritage to me

Attempted intimidation, murder and other sheer treachery

Playing a part that I should not be playing

Not saying something that I should be saying

 

What is southern heritage to me

Code words for white supremacist racism perpetually

Honoring slavers for what they've done

The worst Megacaust ever witnessed under the sun

 

What is southern heritage to me

The opposite of true christianity

Confederate flags fly all around

And other symbols of hell are easily found

 

What is southern heritage to me

The spirit of evil has been set free

Led by the white supremacist man

Personified by politicians and the ku klux klan

 

What is southern heritage to me

Republican's southern strategy

Make the races fear each other

Control them both from under cover

 

What is southern heritage to us

Forced to ride in the back of the bus

Exploitation of our women and men

By state sponsored tyrants and terrorism

 

What is southern heritage to man

Something truly hard to understand

What represents man’s very greatest of sins

Southern heritage - and it should be gone with the wind

 

Copyright by July 2013 by Ben Walid

 

 

 

 

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COMMENTS

 

poetic08' says:

Deep then the Atlantic Ocean as black souls cry out , free at last. Beautiful writing , keep bring it, soul awaking.
 

ElroyKen says:

Real deep bruh so is my roots

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