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here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem.
It should be the loudest movement of all times
of all times
OF
ALL
TIMES
Black, coloreds,
negroes, Africans in America—Africans
WHATEVER
you may be when
you tune into—no news station, radio
or whatever medium
you visit this day—
the address will not be televised
for static will
be the only sound you'll hear &
the message will be broadcast through word of mouth
there won’t be
enough time to gather those scapegoat NEGRO leaders
JESSIE,
COLIN POWELL,
SHARPTIN,
Kweisi Mfume & my favorite, Farrakhan—
ready to save
the ass of Miss America—for she will
be
DECROWNED & DETHROWNED—
who’s going to
be their president?
an AFRICAN in
AMERICA—AFRICANS...
with fatigued warlike bodies
& the callous
hands ready to steer the soldiers—
of the ghetto address
from the East to West, North and South,
globally taking
strategic & drastic measures to react—a
nation
that was brought out of
Liberia, Ghana,
Senegal & Benin,
500 hundreds of years ago
that are still traveling through the wilderness?
running away
from the children of pharaoh—
the Hitler’s, Kennedy’s, Nixon’s, Carter’s, Reagan’s,
Bush’s, Clinton’s & a
son of a Bush—
it’s time to turn around & head
to that Promised Land
by any means necessary
with the Black president leading his black nation
reclaiming what’s
rightfully ours
without losing souls to deception
of the many distraction and diversions
that will throw us off
the goal of the ghetto address
that will be like a party on the dawn of the greatest revolution
to occur in & across
the nations where slavery still exists:
in the slums of the pimps,
the jones of the drug dealers,
the welfare of the single parents,
the agony of the athletes,
the haven of the churches,
the liqueur of the bars,
the circle of the social places,
the clubs, the malls
& the underground,
where the real soldier have been hiding from their
uncles & auntie
toms
that we have
allowed to kill what’s left of the little
dignity we have,
so, I’m taking
lead to behead any fool
trying to stop the forward motion
as the drumsticks are splitting,
as the drumsticks are splitting;
as the drumsticks are splitting,
from the roll— of
the warrior’s
death percussion.
The preceeding words are lyrics from the CD Bumpy
Tymes
Click
here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem.
Note: The weekend of
November 17-18, 2007 at the Upper State (New York) Independent
Awards, Blackman Preach took home the plaque for the Best
Poet. Blackman Preach believes it is very important to thank
those who took time out and voted for him. If you think the
lyric and music production on Bumpy Tymes was serious, just
wait until you see what he's cooking for the third album...
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BlackCommentator.com Spoken
Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton),
is a poet
(spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi
and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor
of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently
resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is
the Founder of Poetic
Black Fusion, a writers' workshop that provides access
and opportunities to poets of African Ancestry living in Central
New York. He is also the co-founder of Voices Merging,
a student-run poetry organization (spoken word) at the University
of Minnesota that provides a social outlet for undergraduate
students to develop as writers, network and express themselves
on stage. He has been writing poetry for 14 years and is published
in the Ethnic Student Center's Newsletter at Western
Washington University, The Spokesman Recorder, and St.
Cloud Times. Click
here to contact Blackman Preach.