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HIGHWAY RIGHT EXIT

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Traveling along the highway of life,

The tall trees of its palisades remind me

How low and ugly parts of life have become.

Though not physically shackled and enslaved,

Socially, economically, and politically, mirror

Equal pain and misery of our cohabitation

In a land that once promised equanimity.

 

“New Jim Crow” has become so disguised

That segregation is literally not an issue

And bigoted racism—an open reality.

The monitoring, chasing, stopping, 

Murdering of “free blacks” surpasses slavery

Days when black extinction was deemed legal.

Lynching of today’s blacks has been replaced by

Leg kneeing, tasering, beating, or hot lead stringing:-

 

It’s evident  we need to exit the present-day highway

And with eyes on the prize, head up to the new highway 

That will take us to the mountaintop of promised liberation,

Honoring the ancestors as we map the awareness way,

Leaving heirs less miles to travel up to total liberation;

Thus, let us get to palisading the fueling inspirations.

 

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mlowe5 says:

Many thanks to you, love_supreme, for fueling inspiration. Peace and Love.

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