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it’s been 60 years and nigga still don’t want a revoultion.
niggas too busy drinking and fucking.
niggas too busy high as a plane in the sky.
nigga too busy watching the game.
niggas wanna be rappers.
niggas wanna be gangstas.
niggas want the iPhone 14 pro.
niggas is too distracted for a revoultion
do you niggas see?
the revolution already happened and what did it do?
you niggas is still working the same jobs, doing the same shit niggas always doing: working.
you niggas is still living in the same slumbs, in the same filth.
roaches, rats, ants—-
you niggas is disgusting.
and some of you niggas tell me that things ain’t used to be like this, that things done changed.
that’s a damn lie cause niggas is always doing the same shit since the beginning of time.
that’s why i know you niggas ain’t ready for a revolution.
you niggas is too scared for a revolution.
you niggas got a weak god, he’s a bitch.
he’s a bitch because ain’t no god gonna tell his people to sit and take this shit.
you niggas is serving a white man’s god.
the white man’s god was taught to the slaves.
our slave ancestors passed it onto us, to make us slaves for generations to come.
that’s the power of the white man’s god.
if you niggas ain’t ready for a revolution today, when will you ever be?
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by design
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it is by design that the black man cant care for his community.
it is by design that the black man cant afford to live where his family has lived since slavery.
it is by design that the black man is forced to work for the white man’s children.
it is by design that the black man teaches his own children to cater to white children.
it is by design that the black man desires the white woman.
it is by design that the black man feels haughty flaunting his white broad in his gentrified neighborhood.
it is by design because the black man is supposed to desire the white man’s oppression of himself.
it is by design that the black man deals with this oppression by drinking, smoking, shooting, stealing.
it is by design that the black man thinks he is more of a man for filling his brethren in neighborhoods soon to be gentrified.
it is by design that the black man is more of a man for killing another black man.
it is by design.
it is by design.
it is by design.
it is by design that the black man preached intergration and got fucked decades later.
it is by design that the black man didn’t see how fucked he was whilst preaching intergration.
it is by design that the black man cowers to the white man’s smile, his promise of change and hope.
it is by design that the black man will stay waiting for change and hope — with his white woman.
it is by design.
it is by design.
it is by design.
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in defense of coons
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coons marooning
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i am not a revolutionary
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revolutionaries say die nigger, run nigger
niggers ain’t ready for a revolution and I agree
but, but
I am not a revolutionary.
revolutionaries die on the street
their bodies lay on the pavement like rotten meat
revolutionaries fuck in the dark and
recorded by the FBI
I - I am not a revolutionary.
revolutionaries are men
I am not one.
I think black women are the most important
and forgotten philosophers of the modern era,
but no I am not a revolutionary
america does not want a revolution.
it is not in the blood, the melting pot
it is not in congress, the supreme court
it is not on the news or in sport.
or maybe it is and because i am not a revolutionary
I do not see it.
I am too soft to be a revolutionary.
too soft and too pretty.
revolutionaries are hard, tough.
revolutionaries have black lips and yellow teef.
My lips is pink.
revolutionaries walk with pride.
I walk like a sissy.
Though Naomi is a revolutionary when she walks in the Spring/Summer collection of Chanel 1995.
and so is Rupual when she tells us to “sissy that walk.”
revolutionaries talk black
I’ve been told i talk white
so they right,
i ain’t no goddamn revolutionary.
Naw.
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bell hooks
fannie lou hamer
shirley chisholm
anglea davis
betty kelly
vivian dickerson
alice walker
maya angelou
sharon thomas
ella fitzgerald
aretha franklin
hortense spillers
mamie riley
saidiya hartman
mabel byrd
billie holiday
Zora Neale Hurston
hattie mcdaniel
nina simone
pam grier
elaine brown
regina jennings
aunt jemima
nikki giovanni
audre lorde
donna haraway
darlene clark hine
michele wallace
toni morrison
toni cade bambara
paule marshall
gloria naylor
anita hill
flo kennedy
sofiner jones
ella baker
mamie till
septima clark
lucy parson
ruby doris smith robinson
bernice reagon
gloria joseph
faye harrison
june jordan
geneva smitherman
dorothy pitman hughes
patricia hill collins
kimberlè crenshaw
jacquline bobo
cheryl clark
babrara smith
beverly smith
demita frazier
margaret walker
gwendolyn brooks
lucille clifton
rita dove
ruby dee
della reese
sonia sanchez
gloria hull
chirlane mccray
margo okazawa-ray
helen stewart
butterfly mcqueen
louise beavers
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