WHO ARE WE?

May 12, 2016

We were stronger when we were Negroes

We were mighty when we were Black

We are hyping when we hyphen

The AFRICAN-American used to be the colored man

But when we are niggers we lack

We wield the whips which lash our backs

We incarcerate ourselves in our own skins and into their prison cells

We turn the hip-hop videos into hi-tech minstrel shows

When we are niggers we embrace the vultures' culture

Haters clones we pick our own bones

Despising self on their behalf doing anything for a laugh

Because niggers are merely animules made to work hard, treat cruel and of course act the fool

Nigger turns the rope of hope into a noose niggers tie us right back up to where

Negroes cut us loose

Where then is our dignity where then our worthiness to be among the free

When we embrace the very term our enemies use to make us burn; with embarrassment and hostility

Niggers are not and cannot be considered proper men they're oafish children with apish plgrins

With a child's' mentality and a fiend's sexuality according to those who held us in captivity

Why fight for the right to declare ourselves someone we have never been

As Negroes we became our own best friend

So then let us now return to where we were when we still could learn

Away from where we've come to be, nigger lovers with no majesty

Back to BLACK powerful and free, able to choose our own destiny!

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