I like to read black history book

 I like to read 

Black history book

I like to read 

Black history book 

That kind that doesn’t teach in school 

The kind that makes white folks uncomfortable 

That kind of book which is banned from the 

Public eye….

I read as much as I can…

It took time and patience 

Under the critical facts….

History should be 

My favorite genre 

Cos I’m deeply learnin about 

My people and the system…..

It helps build 

My poems to explain 

The mirror of 

The world’s reality….

I wanna remember 

Things 

Even when they bring anger 

Out of me….

When you read a page

A chapter 

And you begin to think 

Exercisin your brain 

Developin questions 

And thoughts 

Observin ass backwardness 

Of a white man’s ways to 

Harm us….

You could see perspectives 

You could see a bigger picture…

I  like to read 

Black history book 

Cos I get to learn 

A countless reasons 

Why the envy

Why so much hate 

On the melanin..

Like I’m givin myself 

Lessons about the past 

About our ancestors…

I was curious 

I wanted to know 

I wanted to study 

And pass on the message….

There’s no indoctrination 

Around my space 

I have the truth to sleep over 

And let my soul writes 

Durin the sunrise….

I wanna challenge 

Black people 

To read one history book 

About ourselves 

Read one page 

Or two…. I want them 

To use their critical thinkin 

Let those factual analysis 

Digest their system 

For a bit….

Cos honestly 

It’s another way of 

Healin our scars

Another way of learnin

How to love ourselves 

And our people….

And they don’t have to do 

The challenge 

It was an idea instead 

Of twerkin 

And being comedian…

I thought 

For us to do 

Somethin 

Constructive….

Some still think 

It’s a nerd thing 

Some still think 

We’re talkin white

Cos we’re readin a book

Yet in that frame of mindset 

Black people still think 

White folks are more intelligent 

Than us…..

When we’re extra wiser….

We’re wise 

We’re brilliant 

We don’t have low

IQ….

and we can read 

And write….

I like to read black history book

Cos I saw me in my ancestors’ shoes….

I feel all the feelings in their souls 

I witness bones of survival and endurance….

I watched slave rebellions in my head….

I look at indigenous black people 

They were here first…

They were the parents of all civilizations….

I challenge you 

To pick up one book 

One memory book of 

Our humanity that started in 

Motherland….

Mama continent…

Maybe you might like it, too

You might enjoy learnin 

About our beautiful people 

And how the sun loves us 

Unconditionally….✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 6-15-26