Black history books and slavery movies

 Black history books and slavery movies

Black history books and slavery movies

I don’t blame black people that they don’t 

Wanna watch nor read about our past…

I understand…

I would be pissed off as well…

It does trigger our spirits…

I wouldn’t be mad if they don’t wanna 

Read my poems about black people pain…

We don’t wanna be reminded 

Yet we’re still livin in a racial society 

Being told we ain’t human….

However we’re resilient….

We have lived through our strength 

To move on, even if some carry the baggage 

Of struggles…

We move forward the best we can 

While history keeps repeatin a repeated pattern 

Same cycle different generations…

I think it’s part of world genes where pain and 

Heartbreak keeps revisitin….

Though black history is important

It’s why we got documentaries, elders and 

Black experiences…

Racism is tryin to whiteout the facts 

That coddle white folks…

I don’t think it’s fair 

Cos they knew what their ancestors did 

They benefit from all the chaos and violence 

Against us…

They refuse to look at themselves in the mirror 

Not even in their eyes…

I always like to say this 

They’re allergic to accidentally 

They have a bad reaction to give melaninated nation reparations 

You know, cut the check…

I encourage my people to read 

A book or watch somethin educational 

If you want the truth 

Cos that way it will help you understand 

The real world…

Especially the system,

White supremacy does affect the 

Black race tremendously…

It abused our brains 

It’s why we keep drownin ourselves in the depths

Of ass backwards confusion….

I’m not sayin nor forcin you 

To read one page of soul achin trauma 

Or watch somebody who looks like you 

Get whoop by a massa…

All I’m sayin 

You must have valuable lessons about 

Being black

In this world 

In this country 

Black people has always been a number target 

Since day one….

It’s why learnin from the past is needed…

Must have a mental Time Machine to 

Go back in those old days 

Where your ancestors were doin so great 

Before colonizers arrived 

And then here they came 

With weaponization and mass destruction…

Yes between those events 

We’re fightin back as well…

You don’t have to read black history books 

Or watch slavery movies…

You do have the right to say I’m over it

And be like I lived through it 

Grandparents 

Great grandparents 

Great great grandparents 

Has lived through slavery Jim Crow

I’m sure they saw a black man 

Hangin on a tree 

While passin by…

And their anger stormed out 

Their tears spillin…

Today 

Racism is still doin it

Especially lynchings 

This time 

It covers up as suicide…

If you got babies 

Runnin around 

Teach them 

About black history 

Give them easy books

Have them watch kids slavery movies 

Before the heavy…

Cos at school 

They will indoctrinate with lies

And not seein themselves in an America story 

Tell these kids 

We built this United States

With our bare hands…

We need critical thinkers

Around here 

We need to have intelligence 

And backbone…

Common sense…

And proud to be black…

There’s this quote that Angelou Maya 

Said,

"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going"

You have ways to know your 

History 

Not just books 

Not just in movies 

You can google 

You can travel 

And listen to other

People’s experiences 

Especially the elders

They were there 

When things happened 

And how it changed…

And yes you might be pissed

Off might be sad

Or you don’t have to 

Learn at all…

There’s a choice 

That you can stay ignorant 

Forever til you learn the hard way…

Or not…

✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 10-9-25