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Get Your Own! | View Slideshow..I am a Black Man
An African man
my roots predate the calendar
africa is my home my contributions are
all that it / has been /will be / thought(i.e.civilized ideas)
all that it / has been /will be / said ( i.e. cultivated words)
all that it / has been /will be / done (i.e. creative actions)
i am a black man
an afrikan man
my fathers son
my thoughts include his thoughts
my blood and bone and flesh include his
my work include his spirit
i follow in his footsteps
i continue them--
and make my own
i am a black man
an afrikan man
speak not to me of compromise
i am straight line i.e. will
i am upward spiral i.e. growth
i am circle i.e. fulfillment
my goal is perfection
my path is productivity
my vehicle is power
i am a black man
an afrikan man
re-ascending my throne
i tolerate no obstacle
hindrances do not deter me
i feed on impediments
i shall purge my kingdom
all poachers beware
its game warden time
i am a black man
an afrikan man
do not attack me with media cries of chauvinism
(Explotation is a foreign product-imported by negroes)
do not try to change me --I reject the effeminate
do not ask me to cry--
tears are for the trembling
and watery eyes anathema to the worrior
(i.e. the enemy must remain in focus until the enemy no longer remains)
do not attept to domesticate me--
i cannot protect you with dishpan hands
i am a black man
an afrikan man
in time of war
present me with harmony but
speak not to me of peace
until victory is ours
present me with unconditional love
that i might present us with unconditional liberationi am a black man
an afrikan man
acknowledge my strength
offer me not prizes for weakness
do not encourage the superficial
tempt me not with diversion
if you are my friend
- fight by my side or heal my wounds
if you are my enemy
- confess
i am a black man
an afrikan man
detained
but not destroyed
enslaved
but not extinct
conquered and oppressed
but not for long
i am black man
an afrikan man
fighting for the future / heading for home
manhood be my momentum
nationhood be my challenge
familyhood be my reward !