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17-03-06, 11:03 PM
THEY TAKE MY KINDNESS FOR . . . . . . . .WEAKNESS.
THEY TAKE MY SILENCE FOR . . . . . . . . SPEECHLESS.
THEY CONSIDER MY UNIQUENESS . . . . . . .STRANGE.
THEY CALL MY LANGUAGE . . . . . . . . . .SLANG.
THEY SEE MY CONFIDENCE AS . . . . . . . . CONCEIT.
THEY SEE MY MISTAKE AS . . . . . . . . . DEFEAT.
THEY CONSIDER MY SUCCESS . . . . . . . . ACCIDENTAL.
THEY MINIMIZE MY INTELLIGENCE TO . . . . POTENTIAL.
MY QUESTIONS MEAN I AM UNAWARE.
MY ADVANCEMENT IS SOMEHOW UNFAIR.
TO VOICE CONCERN IS DISCONTENTMENT.
IF I STAND UP FOR MYSELF, I AM TOO DEFENSIVE.
IF I DON'T TRUST THEM, I AM TOO APPREHENSIVE.
I AM DEFIANT IF I SEPARATE.
I AM FAKE IF I ASSIMILATE.
MY CHARACTER IS CONSTANTLY UNDER ATTACK.
PRIDE FOR MY RACE MAKES ME "TOO BLACK."
~Author Unknown (to me)
A Luta Continua—Lasima Tushinde Mbilishaka
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18-03-06, 05:36 PM
WOW!!!! I like that... did you write that poem Thoth?
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18-03-06, 08:21 PM
No, I am not very talented when it comes to poetry, nor do know who the real author is. The person was simply aPittsburgh local. It was from a sessionaudio recorded in a jazz & poetry lounge one night in Pittsburgh some years back. I happened to listen to it again, so I decided to share.
A Luta Continua—Lasima Tushinde Mbilishaka
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18-03-06, 10:44 PM
Well thanks for sharing..... it's great!!
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19-03-06, 06:10 PM
Wasn't this read out by a poet/actress on a very old episode of Mohesha (sp).confused3 It sounds so familiar.confused2
Yu tink se me dun but me na dun!
"One of the heads of the beast seemed to have been fatally wounded, but the wound had healed. The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast".
Good News Bible. Rev. Ch.13 V.3
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22-03-06, 06:03 PM
I don't know....I don't watch much television. There's too much poison. Maybe the TV sitcom was reciting some poet...I doubt a sitcom writer would write a poem like this.
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22-03-06, 07:30 PM
Well in the show Mohesha was a writer. But the poem wasn't read by her. She attended a poet's 'club' and another actress/poet read it.The poetwas dressed in African gear and she read a militant poem, (very similar tothe one you typed). In fact it inspired me to write my own lol.
Ican't rememberall the words becausethe showaired a long time ago.
Yu tink se me dun but me na dun!
"One of the heads of the beast seemed to have been fatally wounded, but the wound had healed. The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast".
Good News Bible. Rev. Ch.13 V.3
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28-12-06, 04:47 AM
This is an excellent poem! More young African Americans need to here something like this. There isso much black hatred going on that many blacks need to find unity within.Poems like these are the ones that should have more recongnition. Thank you. For posting thispoem.
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31-12-07, 11:28 PM
A very worthwhile read!
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