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We Control Our Destiny

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This poem will be featured in my upcoming work "The Chain Breakers" set to premier black history month 2.14.2018 on Amazon by M.D. Johnson

 

From the shores

Of L’Afrique

To enslavement

Upon a slaver’s ship

To America

Home of the brave

Land of the free

Passed war &

Passed Civil Rights

Right back into the clutches of captivity

To prison

-enslavement

-in amazement

-I’m complacent

It’s no mystery

-the hypocrisy

14 million whites and

2.6 million blacks

Report illicit drug use

Yet, despite the fact that

5 times as many whites are using as blacks,

Blacks are sent to prison at 10 times the rate of whites.

I’m not making light

Of the fact

Or pointing the finger

At the other guy

I’m just saying

There’s a major disparity

In the system

And there is no alibi

For the fact

We still aren’t free

-shackles

-handcuffs

Are still at the bridge

Of my disparaging

It’s time to set us free…

 

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