Mwatabu S Okantah
blue-black on black (for Tyre Nichols)
they don’t have to wonder why any more. five brazen blue-black brothers beat down another black mother's sun beyond senseless to another...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Dec 18, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2022
- 1 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, 2021
- 1 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, 2021
- 1 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, 2021
- 1 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, 2020
- 1 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, 2020
- 1 min
At Cracker Barrel
"... being segregated ... is their preferred norm."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Dec 1, 2019
- 1 min
No
tv commercial declared,
"We all have an immigrant story...."
no.
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Oct 9, 2019
- 1 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, 2019
- 1 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, 2019
- 1 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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