Elizabeth Lawrence

 Elizabeth Lawrence 

When I heard this story 

This sad story 

About a black schoolteacher 

Was mindin her business 

Walkin home, right?

These little white kids has thrown 

Rocks at her….my mind went automatically 

Straight to, 1 racism was taught at home…

2 white people never liked being told 

What to do…

This black woman disciplined those 

Rascals, and rascals came to tell 

Their parents….

Their shitty parents and their crew 

Went to her house and shot her….

and burned her home down….

Her son came 

To find out 

That his mama was lynched 

Cos she told those little spoiled brats 

To stop throwin rocks….

This happened in Alabama…

June 1933…

It wasn’t that long ago,

White southerners 

White Alabamians 

Threatened the son to leave the state 

Nobody went to jail 

Nobody got justice 

And you see why 

Ida B. Wells wrote papers 

See why Billie Holiday sang that song 

People got the nerve to 

Tell us to stop being a victim 

To get over it 

Let me tell you somethin

To white folks’ eyes,

Black lives ain’t human

Til this day…..

This is why history is so important 

Keep repeatin itself over and over 

With new terms like foul play 

And commit suicide….

I bet those white kids 

Bad ass white kids 

Are still alive today 

I bet Lawrence haunts 

Them in nursery home 

I bet some of them still thinks 

It’s a joke….

White kids 

Little white kids 

Who was taught black bodies are 

Nothin….they brought the ideologies 

To their kids…

It was durin Jim Crow 

Black schoolteacher 

Was mindin her business….

Was just mindin her business…

Sometimes doin that could lead to 

Terror….honestly 

I hope Elizabeth has rocks 

In her pockets 

Just to throw them in their 

Deathbeds where they have their final rests

Or in their rocket chairs where they sat tellin

Stories….

I hope she’s a shadow walkin followin their 

Every slow step…

I mean she haunted their parents 

Who taught them that black people ain’t human….

Taught them how to mistreat them…

Then haunt them….

You see there’s no forgiveness 

No soften heart 

For their violence…

What they did is barbaric…

They threatened her son to leave town….

Or they do the same as they did to his mother…

Say her name,

Elizabeth Lawrence….

✊🏿💯💔©️ Kai C. 3-20-26

Thought of black people invented wheelchairs

 Thought of black people invented wheelchairs

I

Thought of black people invented wheelchairs

For a while….

Cos if they did, I would like to say thank you 

For makin them…for everybody to be mobile…

To be independent as much as possible…

Here’s a thing 

White supremacy loves to take our brilliance 

Our black excellence and place it in hidden rooms…

They love to snatch and plagiarize 

Sayin they have built it on their own with blood and sweat…

When really, it’s us behind that magic….

It’s why wheelchairs sat on my brain 

For a bit…. White people love to hide 

Our creations cos of their jealousy, of 

Their insecurities….the fact they were taught 

That black people are supposed to be dumb….

We ain’t stupid, we’re intelligent 

We have made the world spin 

For decades….especially before 

All  the other races came around…,

Look at the history 

Who created whiskey?

A black man…

And they have kept it 

Til years later….

People believe 

It was some white man who created 

Some type of alcohol…

Nope…

It was a black man, Nathan "Nearest" Green..

I was so curious 

About the wheelchairs….

I know how they are 

I know how they do…

I wouldn’t be surprised if black people 

Did invent wheelchairs 

We just never know…..

Google says black people did not invent wheelchairs 

But they made contributions 

Like Rufus Jack Weaver….

Honestly 

We just never know when to find out 

From years to now 

Just like we learned about a Nathan "Nearest" Green invented 

Whiskey..

As I recall 

I heard that on the radio 

On the way to the day program 

In the 2010s…

A thought of black people 

Invented wheelchairs 

Will stay with me for a long time….

Cos I have a feelin they did….

Nobody will give us credit for our genius makings….

Nobody will accept our intelligence 

Cos to the eyes of white supremacy 

We’re not supposed to be usin our brains….

We’re not supposed to be smart….

We’re not supposed to challenge others who think they’re superior….

Have you heard of this sayin 

You gotta be good as twice as them

Somethin along the lines?

Well let me put on a perspective 

It’s not ego or anythin like that 

But black people are way more smarter than them

They’re way more educated and better than them…

Cos without us around 

What would other races do?

What would America do without us?

We built from the ground up…

They can never live without us..

Yet have the nerve to disrespect us….

So I hope you think about wheelchairs 

And black people 

Cos it’s possible they invented them 

Never know..

♿️💯✊🏿©️Kai C. 3-19-26