The "N" Word
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#2 The "N" Word
In this modern day world
We seem to consume
The "N" word of hate
The slave word for doom
This word has been drenched
In red from our blood
It enslaved us like swine
Chain dragged through the mud
How fast we forget
Those lynch mobs and scars
The burnings and beatings
Those hot branding bars
Our freedom was taken
Our humanity stole
We were just that "N" word
No body no soul
Our women were raped
Some men were castrated
Black children were sold
Our race was degraded
With the crack of a whip
This word was yelled out
With each break in our necks
The rope showed know doubt
We were hunted like prey
Then put on the block
We were branded as slaves
With a chain brace and lock
This "N" word was use
To take guilt out of blame
Because it made us inhuman
To be killed with no shame
Yet after all of those years
Of that suffering pain
The use of this word
Has weaken our brain
We throw it around
Like a word with no past
But history lives on
From the shadow it cast
It's now part of our language
In every sentence we say
It shows off our ignorance
In a sorry sad way
There's no other culture
And no other race
That would embrace such a slur
Or welcome disgrace
Yet we as Black people
Have done so for years
Our dignity lost
Without feelings or tears
It's part of the reason
We will never excel
Or out-live our slums
And Ghetto-ish hell
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me.
Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my
goals, my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.--
Billie Holiday
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
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world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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