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...

"... Dem dogs break dem laws and dem dogs break dem laws." --The Ancestors white privilege is “Vanilla ISIS” reigning down MAGA whiteness...

King said he'd been to the mountain top....But what promise? What land?

"... being segregated ... is their preferred norm."

"lost in lost causes"

"watching them watching me"

Sitting in my car Outside grocery store Thinking about Being a tall dread locked black man Wearing bandana covering My face Thinking...

tv commercial declared, "We all have an immigrant story...." no.

I cry for my Africa

"the mindless flock and the fake negroes just keep drinking Trump Kool-Aid ..."

"the true American story ..."

In 1619, "20 odd Negroes" were traded at the Jamestown settlement for supplies. They were in the Americas against their will.

I wrote this poem in response to my first visit to Assin Manso. A location where captured Africans received their "last bath."