What Is Black History?

Is it a rhetorical question?
Observations of Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.
A celebration of human life
Accomplishments and awareness.
Shades of black and white.
A distinction between different traditions.
Degrees of situations.
Black life and black culture.
Protest seemingly arise.
Deep within the heart of humanity.
History dedicated to one month?
The insanity.
Color discrimination.
A place in black history.
What about the innovators and dictators?
Those who made a difference.
The meaning of Martin Luther King Jr. And his speeches.
It seems to be there.
Something our culture understands.
While the others seem to underestimate and undermined.
Where is the history?
Depicting.
Weighing
Measuring.
Judging.
The depths of the human soul.
It is an un-fathomable calculation.
Where we start with interaction.
Others still do not know.
Nor will the next generation.
What is black history?
How is it measured?
Topsy-turvy.
Upside down.
Something refused to be taught to others.
When will they learn?
When will it be a concern?
Learning about things we already know.
Take your words about history and trunk them around.
Learn about our culture.
And not about the interpretations of slavery we already know.
History should not just end at the "white man's" door.
Celebrate color.
The multiplicity.
The complexity.
And diversity.
Not just celebrate in one month.
There should not be a lack of it.
What is history?
The color of our culture.
The discriminated upon.
The color tradition.
Somehow shunned upon.
The color of race and people.
Stating those obscurities.
So what is black history?
Something we all need to learn about.

Words of Black Culture

Born beautiful.
Living in urban communities.
Poverty and social injustice.
Stress, survival, and the struggles.

Large expanses of asphalt and concrete.
Always in the middle of the heat.
Natural Skin
Brownstone.
But unruly and unjustified by the tone of our skin.

We go through the emotional ups and downs.
Maximizing the affect on our lives.
Emotional connection and control.
Destruct the balance and stability of our culture.

Connection
Disconnection
Racial discrimination
We take the bulk of it.

We are judge by our color.
Spoken to like good olé rubbish.
Set away and chosen over someone less superior.

Life comes in words.
They may or may not be heard.
If heard...
Only to please the "white man".
If not...
It is long forgotten like our heritage and black history.
Somehow we have to get that back.

Subtle Trust Issues

To this day

Nation We Call "Free"?

I have grown tired.
Society chasing.
In this nation we call "free".
A "free" nation you say?
Blacks are still living in poverty.
Gunned down and discriminated against.
Naïve to think this all diminished.
We are ALWAYS "expected to".
Stripped and exhausted every muscle.
This modern society we live in.
Expensive things only others can experience.
Minimum wage not even close to change.
Our children running in the streets.
But our nation is "free".
You are right.
It is "free".
"Free" to make it much more difficult without even realizing.
Making clothing sizes 10 times too small.
Making lengths average.
Difficult if you are tall.
Selling a vision.
We have so much talent
But it is either hidden, stolen, or taken away
Misconstrued for the outside prey.
Pure mangos
And natural coconuts.
Segregation of hair products with chemicals made for the un-natural or the "perfect".
But we too soil our own hands.
Committing the same acts to our own.
We should come together as one.
The oversaturation of our blood and our roots.
I have grown tired.
These days a man can not get a job.
Because he is not good enough for the "white man".
Yet we are told we NEED to get a job.
A nation of "need".
Why not a true nation of the "free".
Because this is not.
Folks racism still exist.
Living at your own risk.
We should beat to our own drum.
But I have grown tired.
I am coming undone.
Because in this nation we call "free".
We are still slaves as far as I can see.