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Messenger: Empress Nzingha Sent: 2/9/2005 12:47:03 PM
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How the hell
Did we get
All the way
From Black slaves
To free Niggas
Colored people
To people of color
Chained up
To locked up
Working
Sun up to sun down
Still
Bucks and wenches
To babyÕs daddies
And babyÕs mommas
From the white manÕs Boy
To this nigga's homeboy
Field niggas raised ghetto thugs
House niggas raised the multicultural elite
Africans to AmericanÕs
Kemet to BET
And most of yÕall think
Whoopie is ugly
But you got eight packs
Wrapped tight at night
Just to hide the fear in your eyes
Brothas donÕt laugh
You got a doo-rag for those waves
Ridas
RidinÕ out on your own people
Like you got a revolution
Instead of a revolver
ThereÕs a difference
Between a revolution
And a revolt
One brings about change
The other is just revolting
CouldnÕt even vote
Till Diddy threatened
To kill you
WWIII in the Middle East
Was too far from the plantation
To be about you
No matter what color
The buried may be
If we can be
Honey, caramel, or chocolate
Then brown is brown
No matter what go down
DonÕt you know
The other half of your heart
Is being shattered
On the other side of the ocean
Be it Pacific
Or Atlantic
What coast are you on
My heart is on the Ivory
I come from
The most amazing people
Ever on this planet
Went from Kemet
To slavery
And just kept ticking
I wish they could
Make a watch
That could tell colored people time
ItÕd have to be
Religion proof
Class and caste proof
Waterproof
Theft proof
Law proof
Fire proof
Shock proof
And indestructible by blunt blow
Or sharp object
And lets not forget
Sun proof, sweat proof
Blood proof, cold proof
And insult proof
Cause otherwise
It wouldn't be able to count
The seconds and minutes
Of an ordinary day
In the life
Of a Black
Human
Being on planet Earth
After all these years
Being here is the amazing part
Not the sacrifice
Or the struggle
The creativity
Or the genius
The simple existence
Of a people
Systematically driven
Toward extinction
Regression and declassification
Getting up
Everyday
And going about the business
Of living
An everyday life
No matter whether
The sky falls
Or the earth crumbles
We may not have
Gotten very far ahead
But weÕre still moving
Pass boobie traps
Land mines
Ruins and gates
Up hill and down river
Over the waters and through
The woods
Back of the bus
On the front line
Through recessions
Depressions and natural disasters
Conspiracies and scandals
From the drum to the CD
We still be
We Black Humans Being
Walking all the way to Heaven
In our own good time

by Empress Nzingha
www.geocities.com



Messenger: def Sent: 2/9/2005 2:55:21 PM
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BLESSED LOVE

GIVE THANKS
GIVE THANKS
GIVE THANKS

The Divine drama.

GIVE THANKS
GIVE THANKS
GIVE THANKS

BLESSED LOVE


Messenger: SisMenenI Sent: 2/10/2005 3:02:09 AM
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Rastafari!! Give thanks Sistren... what an Ilahful piece.. very deep.


Messenger: Lioness_Susan Sent: 2/10/2005 3:27:19 PM
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GLORY TO WORD, GLORY TO SOUND

YES SISTREN TRUELY A ILAHFUL PIECE,,INITUE TO SPREAD THE WORD SOUND POWER

BLESSED LOVE


Messenger: Ark I Sent: 2/11/2005 12:02:37 AM
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Serious words. Give thanks for the Word Sound.

Ark I
RasTafarI
Haile Selassie I


Messenger: the rock Sent: 2/11/2005 12:22:03 PM
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revolution time


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