The Truth Will Set You Free | Poetry

#10 in black poetry

I wrote this a few years ago, but as things tend to do in this country, nothing has changed since then. If you look at Black American history, all of our leaders have been assassinated, imprisoned, exiled, or otherwise done away with in order to prevent or quell uprisings in the black community. This poem examines the incessant phenomena of what happens after shedding the ignorance taught to us by American culture, schooling, and mass media. It examines how once you become "woke" you suddenly have a target on your back... and how many have been taken from us like Malcom, like Martin, like Fred, and like so many other Black leaders that try to take their people higher and are murdered for it. The truth will set you free.