Mwatabu S Okantah
A blue-black on black crime
people don’t have to ask why we fear the police any more. five brazen blue-black brothers beat down another black mother's sun beyond...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Dec 18, 20221 min
pandemic
sitting in my car outside grocery store pondering being a tall dread locked black man wearing bandana covering my face pondering being...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Nov 29, 20221 min
first time i met poetry
first time I met poetry it frightened me into believing lyrical word sounds possess power. discovered it was born in me, could feel it...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Jan 6, 20221 min
I, Too, Am A Witness
no, we are not their “Negro” or their “Nigger” or their “Black” or their “Minority” or their “Person of Color” or whatever they think to...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Nov 20, 20211 min
Babylon America
Trumpian politrickster murders opponent in cartoon reality and with smug go sour Gosar straight face claims no violent intent him was...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Apr 15, 20211 min
hard truths
i know he meant well. he is a good neighbor. he cares and keeps a watchful eye. we live in a racially diverse neighborhood. we exist in...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Jan 10, 20211 min
MAGA Whiteness
"... Dem dogs make dem laws and dem dogs break dem laws." --The Ancestors white privilege is “Vanilla ISIS” reigning down MAGA whiteness...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Sep 26, 20201 min
what promise?
King said he'd been to the mountain top....But what promise? What land?
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 19, 20201 min
At Cracker Barrel
"... being segregated ... is their preferred norm."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Dec 1, 20191 min
No
tv commercial declared,
"We all have an immigrant story...."
no.
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Oct 9, 20191 min
"Demo-Crazy"
"the mindless flock and
the fake negroes
just keep
drinking Trump Kool-Aid ..."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Aug 23, 20191 min
1619 to 2019
In 1619, "20 odd Negroes" were traded at the Jamestown settlement for supplies. They were in the Americas against their will.
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Mwatabu S Okantah
Aug 6, 20191 min
Ghana
I wrote this poem in response to my first visit to Assin Manso. A location where captured Africans received their "last bath."
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