Recognition
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#4 Recognition
We lack the recognition
For the things that we do
And the accomplishments we made
From the knowledge we knew
We are the Father of Inventions
From the past to present day
For the world has improved
From discoveries we made
Since the beginning of man
In the Black Continent
Black Pharaohs and Kings
Ruled the land of Kemet
It's where Democracy and Papyrus
And the Pyramids began
And that belief for one God
Has made Akhenaten the man
Timbuktu's Universities
Is where scholars first learned
And its secrets for knowledge
Was something they earned
There were other contributions
Black history has shown
Like the filament for light bulbs
That Latimer made known
And the auto traffic signal
Was a Morgan design
Granville Wood's telephone
Was the best of its kind
Refrigeration, air condition
Kept things from the heat
Thanks to Standard and Jones
Who gave us this treat
John Johnson made the wrench
And Flemmings the guitar
For Spikes auto shift
Was a dream for the car
But with all our discoveries
And inventions we've done
Recognition is something
We still haven't won
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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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we
need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the
world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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