Generations created
Generations forgotten
History has been written...
Where is your place?
Are u enjoying life as you know it? Providing for your family with a bounty of food? Assured of your daily security...
Are you out of touch or out of control of your own destiny? Bound to fulfilling another man's dream?
Where is your place?
Are you still in control or are you being examined, appraised...sold...to the highest bidder?
Are you coming & going as you please...or are you traveling for work?
Where is your place?
.............are you working the field? In rags, stained by the dirt under your calloused feet, drenched in the sweat of you labor?
Simple question...where is your place?
Are you being made the example to those around you? Are you the one being beaten mercilessly until the ground around you is saturated in blood & you are barely able to stand?
Are you being hunted like game for trying to escape captivity? Bound & tortured...just to return to the hell that is your life...
Starting to understand?
Are you that black house wife who's husband's wages aren't enough? Who is torn on the inside because your landlord wants your body in exchange for a few more days of shelter...& the unborn child you're carrying may not be your husbands...
Are you that negro man in the Jim Crow south that's telling the other negros that there is a better life for them? That's good right?
Because if so, tonight, you are to be dragged out of your home to the nearest public arena...beaten, within an inch of your life, spit on, urinated on, seared & covered from head to toe in hot tar...dashed with feathers from the pillows that may have been your daughters...tied by both ankles to horses, and while you are still contemplating your last living moments, your body is suddenly being split in two. Torn from your groin to your left arm pit. You suffer & die.
In front of your family...& this is all legal.
It's clearing up?
Are you one of those sacrificing your comfort to see that those around you live a better life? Those that have made the decision to sacrifice themselves for others? Are you in that rank...are you ready to go to jail or DIE on hope alone?
(pause)
Where is your place?
Your place is here, now, with more of our strengths & few of our setbacks. Are you going to let the past be the past, or will you use what we have suffered to help you to succeed?
Black History...learn it, embrace it, never forget, always know- your place.
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