If this day and age is about progression then I say we need to look back at history. As black people we came from nations of royalty, decades of kings and queens but our "men and women ".parade around like the peasants we use to be treated like. not acting as if we are trying to evolve in to the best we can be. Studies show that the body of the first man was found in Africa which everyone is black to their roots no race should be able to say they are over us because of color and or historic accuracy but when it comes to behavior and pride they triumph over us because we prance and act as if we are the animals they called us a mere 50 years ago. Our young ladies walk around in outfits that would make the people who paved the way for us cry and hurt to their hearts because they want to know is this what they broke their backs working and marching for. The Bible says that after Adam & Eve bit the apple when God came to them they hid and tried to cover themselves, fore they were ashamed because of their nakedness. I say that today we should be just as ashamed. Ashamed because nudity is acceptable now basically. Females wear bras and call them tops and it's ok? It isn't. Men and little boys walk around with their pants sagging to their ankles. Not knowing that is a trait started by homosexual men that are in jail which is the REAL alternative to slavery. Yes I said alternative to slavery because years ago most blacks were slaves, now most black men in this generation will see the inside of a jail/prison sell instead of a college classroom. They will pick up a gun before they pick up a book and its crazy because they will use that same gun to rob the other black man who chose the book. It saddens me because nowadays the same black men who are not trying to be targets are the ones being attacked. Not the ones who repeatedly say "im ready to die" instead of "im ready to better myself. "
Or the ones who will put 1 pair of Jordan's over 3 outfits for their child. The black race is headed for pure destruction if we don't stop now. The government and the racists of other ethnic backgrounds are already killing us slowly at the same as black on black violence is. The police are out to get us, don't you see? They are trying to exterminate us using the ammunition we give them. The gun is powerless without the bullets. Meaning if we stop giving them reasons to throw us in jail, easy access to raping our women, and the "probable cause/ self defense " in our murders we could thrive as a people and stand as the strongest people on the planet. They cant touch us without it being an admission of guilt if we don't let them. All we have to do as a race is become educated in law, religion, & history, and we are unstoppable. The government, the KKK, and other groups against us become powerless. Malcolm X once spoke on the police brutality against blacks and said "the KKK still exist the have just evolved, they have traded in their robes for police uniforms, blood hounds for police dogs, and knuses for night sticks" i say that the still today put us in chains but at a shortened length and call them handcuffs or shackles. It say in the Bible "out of the mouths of babes " so here i am at the age of 16 where i am still seen as a "babe " in society telling all that I see the stupidity in the actions of my people and knowing that all of the wrong doings around me need to be put to an end. It is said that history repeats its self so at this rate where are we going or would the better question be " what are we returning to? "
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Poetrythis is for my friends I've lost in the last 2 years ashley, Aaron, Jerrick,Chris, marcus this is for you