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Neo-Blackness 1977

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  • My Message To You I hope to see the day when my black family learns to adjust, and stop getting high because of this old world's disgust. You see, each time we use; we lose. How can we talk about being something more than our ancestors, when our minds are dancing into illusions we think to be beautiful. Our high is hypocrisy. We can't help the hungry, those robbed of their identity, the illiterate, and the weak, when we are getting off on something unreal. Each time we get high; we get behind. Let's stop being jesters in the courtyard of the evil. God, knowledge, and faith is the answer to this sick and bleeding world. Stop tripping, and step down to reality where everything isn't good, but it is real. Make a contribution to this crying land. We need each other to make ourselves something to be looked at besides whores, niggers, filthy rags, easy, and lazy. For there're colors in the rainbow we've never seen; seas we've never sailed; and sunshine we've never tasted. What I'm saying is this: Others cheating us is one thing, but cheating ourselves is bonding chains. Janice Townsend You've hurt me in a way you'll never understand; But I guess that's all a part of being a man. This feeling inside, I know you'll never feel; It's sort of like climbing up, yet being pushed down a hill. For years the black woman has struggled and tried; To keep what she believes, flourishing and alive. Always it's the same; the man's got to win — Yes, he, the man with the fair skin. Marvena Connelly
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