January 10, 2008
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Bloody
Revolution Poetic Black Fusion By Poet Blackman Preach BC Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio) |
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This recording was a part of the "State of the Ghetto Address" and dedicated to Brother Malcolm X at Western Washington University. Students created a day of celebration on May 19, 2000. Blackman Preach was honored to be a student on the original committee that organized the Remembrance Day for Brother Malcolm X. He was one of the student poets and read Bloody Revolution. Click here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem. Bloody Revolution I am acknowledging the manslaughter murder murderers you assassinated him the bottomless grave thinker on his hiatus strategizing while working the campaign against harrassing him following him challenging him while feasting at his dinner table? before his first child Attallah was conceived Denmark Vesey was screaming a bloody revolution.
From the podium journalists hustled footage of the leader speaking - speak outs of the child pimping-addict hustler gambling satan’s prisoners I seized a glimpse of this nationalist leader as articulate the demonstration of power with oral narratives motioning with his hand-out he directed the grassroots in the ghet-to and David Walker was screaming a bloody revolution.
Unlocking a pen-uh jailhouse rock of a double edge ministrieeeeee’s martyr where the ballot seared the bullet connecting Malik Malcolm with other classes and races before the dismantlers and conspirators paralleled men and women with a degenerate foundation knowing Nat Tuner was screaming a bloody revolution.
I stand where he stood the bleeder of death like a thief in broad daylight we all were watching knowing the authorities and the nation were in on it shifting the aim of Malcolm’s story media and government are the real blame for the mourners but the leadership kept Kwame Nkrumah screaming a bloody revolution.
Yeah I fought in World War I - II and III Saudi the Gulf of all the wars you’ve created on enemy lines that wasn’t mine they knew it you knew it while Dr. King was screaming a bloody revolution. Through the eyes of the womb his ideas of being born anew Malcolm’s actual birth is almost near but you still have not figured out what I’m trying to say the babe was discharge Malcolm Little the prison’s hustling pimp-out addict Malcolm X- the rehabilitated philosopher El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz- a genius blessed by Allah the martyr came out the archives screaming - scream - screaming and I mean screaming - scream - screaming a damn bloody revolution. The preceeding words are lyrics from the CD State of the Ghetto Address Click here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem. BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric
T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in |
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