Remember The Days

Remember The Days??

When dark days and dark night collided.
Stolen at gunpoint from African sands, taken my death ships to foreign lands.

Brothers from brothers;Mothers from daughters, crying out in horrid pain…
Stripped naked..of language,culture,name.

Angola to Brazil
The Congo to Belize
Senegal moves through the Caribbean.
Destination: Richmond 15 million strong.

What is this place? What are they saying? Why…. Am…. I….. here?

Our backs are weary, the journey’s been long..
But still… we stand STRONG..Praying, dreaming, singing our native songs..

Exploited, belittled, violated in every way,
We can’t go back, but why oh why do we stay?

Chains, whips, ropes, and hoses..
Didn’t Abe say we was free?

But wait..Now these are the days..

Discrimination, Segregation, Black on Black Degradation, Urban Isolation, Inferior Education, re-gentrification, Police Intimidation…The New Drug Sensation.

When young boys choose street smarts, not book smarts.
Tears drops and gun shots…

When exposing your boxers to an elderly woman making her way..is acceptable…

When a woman must go to the man to get her child’s father to stand up and be a man..
I mean damn I just don’t understand.

When ridding the T means hearing nigga this and nigga that, and bitch this and bitch that…

We sit pretending that its not happening, and that its…
Somebody else’s child walking like that and….
Somebody else’s child talking like that and..
Somebody else’s child looking like that.

But wait…These are the days…
And today is the day..that WE..
Remember the days , never forget the days, cherish the days,
But live in a way that says… I am somebody.. I am somebody..