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29 September 2014

"Ice Bucket"

"Torture of a slave" 
Seems as if
every time I 
get close to 
attempting to appreciate
the contribution that 
awareness could perhaps 
bring to the 
masses in regards 
to the challenge 
of dumping precious 
replenishing buckets of 
cold free and 
privileged 
drinking water over 
a head yet 
another Blackman 
child
boy 
adolescent 
infant, 
or fetus
is waved 
in my face 
to remind me
we need to 

"This is the original
cold water challenge.
It was a torture method used to
break big black male slaves!
The picture below is 1858
in a prison facility..."
raise awareness to
the industrialized cultural
pandemic thats labeled 
Being black in America
and what
exactly to do 
with all the 
"American Negros”

Its called the 
very fabric of 
your skin my 
brother ain’t worth
 the very breathe 
God herself gave

See my conscious 
problem with the 
challenge of taking
H2O and freezing 
it is just 
that, taking the 
H2O and freezing 
the situation as 
if those boys 
do not and 
are not the 
matter

They say “freeze"
so we have
those that want
to be revolutionary 
in your minds eye 
have publicized moments 
over shadowed the 
televised killings 
of 400 men 
killed two by 
two in this 
country by distant 
relatives of slave 
masters who have 
become KKK presidents 
wake-up, there’s 
no time left
 to thaw out 
the energetically charged 
crimes of blood 
shed 

protect your 
neck this goddess 
recommends
learn how to 
write left handed
just incase its
incapacitated

So know this 
that this Queen
Will not be 
wasting drinking soul
replenishing water to
WAKE-UP those 
who are asleep
to the mass
Vietnam like war
happening via the 
superhighway, we have
all come to 
know as the 
new media outlet
W W W://HTTP: The revolution will not be televised
ask reverend so
and so to
pray for me
‘cause I might 
just burst from
what seems like
orchestrated strange to 
you, modern day
lynchings and killings
that are now 
accessible by Google

it don’t seem 
strange to you 
that a piece
of fruit cost
more than a 
happy meal, goo’s
and all

This challenge was 
meant to cool
me out and 
tell me that
“his” life meant
more than the 
life of the 
dead child who 
we can’t thaw 
out and return 
to sender, dry
off clothes and 
keep it pushing
No this challenge
is full of 
missed guided attempts
to smolder black
rage and to
confuse you with
due process with 
extreme prejudices, blind 
just-us. 

No this challenge
was designed to 
make light of 
the black right
to fight

Stares of men 
are confused when 
my soul leaps out 
and screams no 
when I see 
my so-called
Black leaders leading
the mass hysteria
I begin to 
form the question
where are my? 
Langstons
Baldwins
Butlers
Morrisons
amongst the charlatans of 
Al
Jessie
Louis
and they keep
trying to school
us into believing
the one man
who is at 
the crux of 
the matter, don’t
Matter…

I challenge you 
to commit yourself 
to the mental 
challenge of 
Freedom

I challenge you 
to find your 
way back to
your soul, play 
chess not checkets
stop being cradled
by the fuel 
of your enemy
when they put
their arms down
then maybe I 
can take a 
bucket of ice 
water and thaw
out my buckets 
of disappointment. 

23 August 2014
#3 Train to Harlem

  


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