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Allow me to introduce a brief timeline
Of the history of our African ancestors during America’s lifetime
So Slavery in this country began in the 1600s
Hundreds of thousands of our ancestors forced onto slave ships
Whipped and Declared to be 3/5 of a human
Inhumane treatment
Stacked on top of one another. Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers
Stolen property
Misused and abused. Treated improperly.
There they remained. Chained.
With no way to explain to their children why
Why they had been seemingly selected to die
Selected for an impending life of misery
This was just the start of “African American” history
Our ancestors were forced to work on plantations
In house and on Fields
Any attempt to escape would get them maimed or killed
30 lashes to the back, perhaps lynched in a tree
Welcome to the real African American History
1865 brought about the emancipation proclamation
Declaration of our freedom
Instead of slaves they called our ancestors freedmen
But still suffering the same treatment
Our ancestors were killed trying to vote
Women, men and children bombed in church
Beaten and hosed
For demanding their worth
Still lynched
Still raped
Same inequality
Same degree of hate….
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed
An attempt to rectify past injustice against our ancestors
But the sentiment did not last
Still discriminated against
Still disrespected
Crosses on lawns still burned
Black Lives still not protected
Still referred to as s, monkeys and apes
Segregation still in effect, yet they called America great
Our ancestors were assassinated
Obliterated
Left our communities devastated
Still dismissed as less than and berated
Our value still negated by those who have always hated darker complexions
Another example of a genuine African American history lesson
So wouldn’t you think this lesson would bring about an understanding of the need for unity
Instead of an increase in the level of self-genocide in our own community
But no, we have turned against ourselves
Seemingly, our ancestors efforts for us to rise have failed
What do I mean you ask? Well, in 2016, over 90 percent of blacks murdered were killed by other blacks
This is a statistical fact
So what would our ancestors think?
What would they say?
Seeing the way we carry ourselves today
No respect for self or anyone else
Taking the lives of our young sisters and brothers with no hesitation
No concern for the ramifications of our actions
And while it’s not our entire population, it’s a large enough fraction to complain
And what of our ancestors?
Did they really sacrifice in vain?
Isn’t their pain still our pain?
Isn’t their goal still our goal?
To be seen as whole
To be treated as equal
But we keep killing our own people
As if we don’t have enough to worry about
Like being taken out by trigger happy cops and tiki torch carrying racists
Face it, our ancestors would be devastated
They didn’t choose captivity
Yet we purposely keep ourselves in chains
Chains of self-hate that Houdini himself could not escape
We are dying at our own hands, hands of royal origin
The KKK can go ahead and disband cause we’re doing their job for them
We need a remedy
Black people are supposed to be each other’s help but instead are our own worst enemy
And our ancestors…Our ancestors must be aching in their graves
To see the same people whose freedom they fought for live willingly as slaves
