The Month Has About Past Our People Haven’t Quite Yet Completed the Task
King and Malcolm
Harriett and Parks
Jackie and Booker
Louie and Truth
Douglass and Rustin
Evers and Jackson
Mahalia I mean
Stokeley and Fred
Hampton now it all seems
will be bundled
back up in a knot
because once March
rolls around these
folks are no longer real hot
Our memories fade
Is it only in February
that shows black history
call all the other months
It seems black folks
seem too fall
Or is they think
Black folks can only play ball
No way in America is our
Place in history tall
Everyone knows Blacks in America
simply all fall
Or take their dollars
straight to the white man’s
Closest mall
To celebrate this month
Of America’s reprieve
While the powers enforced all continue
to deceive
Black History month what did we achieve?
in America right
We tend then too forget
the reality of a black people’s
real plight
you jest they will say
black’s role in American history
never once loses it’s sight
justice forsaken
equality never undertaken
Our people’s pride always shaken
When will black minds be awakened?
King and Malcolm
Harriett and Parks
Douglass and Rustin
Evers and Jackson
Mahalia I mean
Stokeley and Fred
Hampton it seems
All will be bundled
back up in a knot
Never placed in book
These names get mistook
Only in this Month does America
Decide to take a look
For their cause for our
people was in reality shook
By the month of year
we certainly hold dear
doesn’t it seem just a little bit queer?
11 months of year we certainly teach
Yet only given this month
To preach and too reach
So many Americans whose brains
Are now breached
Fannie and Nat
Marcus Garvey don’t hate
Yet so more names
Go unmentioned these days
Seems like America continues
To remain in haze
Black History it seems it caught in a daze
It’s can be a month
a day or week
History my friends cannot always be sleek
Otherwise we as people remain up the damn creek
New black heroes arise
Why is that a surprise?
So as this month closes
No America you can not continue to hold your noses
Refusing to see black historical people’s poses
Or learn of our struggles
We did more than dance
Yeah we hopped out of that trance
Adapted and moved beyond
Society’s Tragic circumstance
So as this month ends
Let’s look ahead Let’s Say
Black History is beyond a Month’s time
When that happens maybe then
It will be quite devine
And People won’t continue to treat
Each other like swine.
Fannie and Nat
Marcus Garvey don’t hate
ing and Malcolm
Harriett and Parks
Douglass and Rustin
Evers and Jackson
Mahalia I mean
Stokeley and Fred
Hampton it seems
Beyond this month keep
Teaching because as people
We are still reaching
Certainly my prose will be preaching
Justice and Equality we’re seeking.
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