tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83256246706787592652024-03-14T01:02:34.706-07:00Pen to Paper & Finger to Keyshort stories, poems, prose, and moreAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-63529679310711006042018-03-25T17:06:00.000-07:002018-03-25T17:06:18.979-07:00Still<div style="text-align: center;">
I am not done yet</div>
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I have not passed on</div>
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<br /></div>
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My back may hurt</div>
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it still moves</div>
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<br /></div>
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The sloth in my movement may be caused by pain</div>
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Id rather feel pain than not feel</div>
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<br /></div>
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My heart may be tough and leathery </div>
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it is not cold</div>
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it is not stone</div>
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<br /></div>
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My laughs are deeper</div>
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longer</div>
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<br /></div>
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My love is harder</div>
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stronger</div>
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<br /></div>
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When I do speak </div>
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it is often low</div>
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<br /></div>
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there is no need to shout</div>
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there is no need to comment on everything</div>
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every thing is not my concern</div>
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<br /></div>
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What I have</div>
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now </div>
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is knowledge</div>
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<br /></div>
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What I know</div>
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now</div>
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is how to filter information</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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© Christopher F. Brown 2018</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-47017621117796207072018-03-24T19:10:00.000-07:002018-03-24T19:10:08.920-07:00Aganju seeing Shango’s heart<br />
He is Fire<br />
Fire like mine<br />
<br />
Fire I could have been<br />
Fire I should have been<br />
<br />
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda<br />
<br />
He didn’t waste time<br />
He didn’t waste his fire<br />
<br />
looking for love<br />
in clubs<br />
in gyms<br />
on-line<br />
Everywhere in-between<br />
<br />
He didn’t waste time<br />
He didn’t waste his fire<br />
<br />
getting his heart broken<br />
getting cheated on<br />
deferring his dreams for a fantasy crafted by others<br />
<br />
He let his fire shine and burn<br />
I hid mine away<br />
the only heat felt from mine was by proximity<br />
the only light that shone from mine was in comparison to shadow<br />
<br />
He would never be like me<br />
His fire is not like mine<br />
<br />
He is smart enough to not bother with things that would take away<br />
He is smart enough to protect his fire from the water<br />
He would never fall in love with it<br />
<br />
He is<br />
not me<br />
<br />
His fire is<br />
not mine<br />
<br />
His fire is<br />
Better<br />
<br />
His fire is not as hot as mine<br />
He can selectively burn with his<br />
mine can only be contained by that which would try to destroy it<br />
<br />
I don’t regret me<br />
I don’t regret my fire<br />
that is not the point<br />
<br />
I want to protect<br />
him<br />
his fire<br />
<br />
The way no one protected<br />
me<br />
my fire<br />
<br />
© Christopher F. Brown 2018<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-50446762142465518242017-12-13T20:09:00.002-08:002017-12-13T20:09:08.334-08:00WhodiniIm not that friend<br />
<br />
I wont come to your pity party<br />
I wont entertain you or others putting you down<br />
I wont help you adopt dispositions for your own defeat<br />
<br />
Im not that friend<br />
<br />
Im not the friend that will turn a blind eye when you are in<br />
Any type of<br />
Abusive relationship<br />
Even when you are single<br />
<br />
Im not the friend to come to:<br />
When You want to wallow in hopelessness<br />
When You want to drape yourself in depressed<br />
When You want to settle into a quaint and comfortable BnBs of stress<br />
When You want to practice patterns that pave cyclical paths<br />
Leading you back to the very same place of pain you are in now<br />
<br />
Im not that friend<br />
<br />
That will fight for you when you make no effort<br />
That has the ability to read your mind<br />
That will watch you torment and torture yourself<br />
That will compete with you<br />
That will want the best for you so long as your best isn’t better than mine<br />
<br />
Because of all this<br />
<br />
I don’t call many people friend<br />
my circle is always very small and self-regulating<br />
And<br />
Those that do know me as friend have been around for decades<br />
That’s my deal<br />
<br />
Because of all this<br />
<br />
I may not be a friend to you<br />
Yet<br />
That may not be my fault<br />
<br />
<br />
© Christopher F. Brown 2017<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-40069514866911004922017-08-02T18:57:00.000-07:002018-03-25T17:04:56.598-07:00Too Many People Have Your Name<div style="text-align: center;">
When I first met you</div>
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you could barely stand </div>
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yourself</div>
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<br /></div>
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your words</div>
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not mine</div>
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<br /></div>
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It wouldn’t have been fair</div>
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asking you to stand with me</div>
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<br /></div>
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Unfair to me</div>
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not you</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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I see you question yourself now </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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“Can they see?”</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
“Do they know?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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You know you only hide</div>
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masks</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
shells</div>
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I laugh because you’ve even tried fur</div>
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<br /></div>
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Some see</div>
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Some know</div>
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<br /></div>
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And you pray</div>
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To see them before they see you</div>
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<br /></div>
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And you pray</div>
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To know them before they know you</div>
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<br /></div>
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I’ll say a French sigh instead of writing it</div>
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Anyway</div>
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<br /></div>
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You play a game called self</div>
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Id like to ask you some questions</div>
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but you already knew that didn’t you</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
© Christopher F. Brown 2017</div>
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<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-78888141731658597162016-12-03T18:22:00.000-08:002016-12-03T18:22:22.628-08:00Children of The Genius ChildShouting<br />
In places where people try to force them<br />
Not to hear<br />
<br />
Quiet<br />
In places where people try to force them<br />
Not to listen<br />
<br />
Kill them<br />
Set them free<br />
Watch them fly wild<br />
<br />
They are indigo, X, and Y<br />
They are naturally Tech savvy and more intune with all that is natural<br />
They are everything but what they know they want to be<br />
<br />
Kill them<br />
Set them free<br />
Watch them fly wild<br />
<br />
Love<br />
<br />
Love has never been one of their considerations<br />
They have never bothered with the fantasy<br />
They were born knowing<br />
Grew tall and mighty watching<br />
<br />
No one ever <b><i>loves</i></b> a genius child<br />
<br />
Kill them<br />
Set them free<br />
Watch them fly wild.<br />
<br />
<br />
© Christopher F. Brown 2016<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-11802795821502420392016-05-15T13:51:00.001-07:002016-05-15T13:51:28.320-07:00The Blacker The Berry / Completely Clueless<br />
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<u><span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Blacker The Berry /
Completely Clueless</span></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The American Justice system
was constructed around the idea of Black People being inferior beings,
considered nothing more than living property purposed for American profit. In
many ways, the idea of Black People being an inferior race of people whoes sole
function in America being living, breathing mechanisms purposed for the
proliferation of American profit, even though not explicitly stated as law any
longer, present actions and decisions of various American government entities
still support the notion as strongly inferred. The punishment for any Black
person or group of Black people asserting their humanity and claiming the rights
belonging to humans in America has historically been, and today remains, severe
abuse or even death at the hand of the country that proclaims, "Freedom and
Justice for All." The previous eight lines are not blindingly new to many eyes
or deafeningly original to many ears, and variations of those lines have become
cliché and even considered revolutionary rhetoric to some people and in some
circles when the opposite is incontestably true. The discussion about the
struggle against oppression and abuse is not cliché or revolutionary rhetoric
that is ultimately useless. The discussion about the struggle against oppression
and abuse is essential and extremely fundamental no matter how long or how many
times the same things are said because the discussion is how the knowledge of
oppression is passed down to future generations and the information about former
forms of abuse communicated. The conversation about the struggle against
oppression and abuse is also crucial in efforts of preventing the former forms
of oppression and abuse ever be enacted again. The discussion about oppression
and abuse should also serve as a wakeup call that more efforts, as well as
different efforts to end the abuse and oppression needs to
happen</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fifty year old former teen
actress and D-list celebrity Stacey Dash would be an example of the type person
that would call the eight lines in question cliché and revolutionary rhetoric
after having previously said, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“<span class="s1">The
Holocaust happened only 70 years ago, yet the Jewish people stay united and have
persevered. They don’t complain or blame anyone or anything for their
circumstances. </span>They work hard and integrate as they see fit, where they
see fit. They are a people of faith that I respect greatly. . . <span class="s1">Blacks need to do the same.</span> <span class="s1">Blacks, stop
believing the false narrative that race is what stops you or kills you. Take
responsibility. Integrate. Stop complaining and blaming others for our
destiny. Slavery ended</span> in 1865. One hundred and fifty years ago.
</span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Respect that it is ours and
work hard to achieve your own AMERICAN DREAM.”
(Dash)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Because of, “Americans”
like Ms. Dash and their misguided misunderstanding of how race has and continues
to kill black people in America and worldwide what is considered revolutionary
rhetoric bears repeating. The discussion surrounding oppression and abuse bears
repeating as long as oppression and abuse continue to be inflected upon a single
person or group of people, rather they be Black or Jewish or anyone. Because of,
“Americans” like Ms. Dash, the discussion about why and how a person or group of
people became oppressed and abused, and how to stop and prevent said oppression
and abuse must continue to happen because the discussion will lead to informed
action and the reality of change can then be realized not theorized. The problem
with repetition is that people tend to become desensitized to whatever it is
that is repeated. African Americans have been fighting oppression and abuse in
America since most still considered themselves African </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When W.E.B Dubois wrote,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Bureau courts tended to
become centres simply for punishing whites, while the regular civil courts
tended to become solely institutions for perpetuating the slavery of blacks.
Almost every law and method of ingenuity could devised was employed by the
legislatures to reduce the Negroes to serfdom – to make them slaves of the
State.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The same sentiments were
echoed by Michelle Alexander eighty-four years later, “Race has always
influenced the administration of justice in the United States. Since the day the
first prison opened, people of color have be disproportionately represented
behind bars” The repetition of these types sentiments should not cause our ears
to deafen, or our hearts to go numb. These statements should cause us African
Americans and people like Ms. Dash to question why the problems of abuse and
oppression still exist. These sentiments should cause any person including Ms.
Dash not to tune out or blame African Americans as the cause of the problem but
to harken inward and question why it is that a people that are supposedly not
oppressed and abused any longer are not only still claiming their abuse and
oppression but showing proof and evidence of abuse and oppression. Later
Michelle Alexander writes, “Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for
what it is: a new cast system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness.”
These lines, written almost a century apart, should not cause us Africans
displaced by oppression and abuse into America’s various unjust and duplicitous
systems and onto America’s stolen soil over centuries to tune out, like Ms.
Dash, but to question why we should seek new ways to say the same things about
the same problems when the problems have not changed or been fixed. The words
that Michelle Alexander writes should stir up emotions not of apathy and
indifference but fire and rage. These lines that some would considered
repetitious and cannon of revolutionary rhetoric, should cause us, a mighty race
of Africans, descendants of the survivors of history’s most horrific atrocity
and warriors against history’s most racist society and culture not to label
these blood bought words, “cliché.” These words should instead invigorate new
ways, or rekindle some old ways, of solving once and for all, the problem of our
people being oppressed and abused. When the focused goal then becomes fixing the
problems, the discourse about the problems can never be cliché because fixing
the problems requires an action that is not birthed from nor gives birth to and
attitude of stoic apathy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The truth is that the
police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make
of the country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed
by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from the policies. . .
are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to
challenge the American people who sent them.” (Coates)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These words written in 2015
should not shock anyone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but they do
however seem morosely cliché when forty years earlier Assata Shakur wrote, “But
it was a lesson I never forgot. Anybody, no matter who they were, could come
right off the boat and get more right and respect than amerikan-born Blacks.”
These words seem morosely cliché when put into the context of the same time
period, when in Oakland California, ordinances in public neighborhoods stated,
“No persons of African, Japanese, Chinese, or of any Mongolian descent, shall be
allowed to purchase, own, or lease said property or any part thereof or to live
upon said property or any part thereof except in capacity of domestic servants
of the occupant thereof.” ("Cheney Photographer photo album photoprint 1916.")
This fact shows that when a person like fifty year old former teen actress and D
list celebrity Stacey Dash says, “. . . there shouldn’t be a Black History
Month. You know? We’re Americans. Period. That’s it” (Cummings) her words are
hallow, vapid, misinformed, and the actual cliché because many have been and
still are legally or, as a point of practice, excluded from being part of her
definition of, “American.” For all these reasons, for all these past and present
incidents, the conversation about the struggle against oppression and abuse is
crucial to efforts of preventing the former forms of oppression and abuse ever
being enacted again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The question that must be
asked now is what mental conditioning has taken hold of some minds, like Ms.
Dash’s, for them to see words like the ones in question as something other than
the long agonizing scream of suffering, crying out against oppression. When
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said, “… its very clear that there’s a
difference between what we saw last week between the peaceful protests…and the
thugs, who only want to incite violence and destroy out city.” (Fang) She failed
to see, or refused to see, that the people she deemed, “thugs” were the sons and
daughters of the oppressed people that elected her into office, crying out of
rage and frustration at the fact that the police whom swore to protect them were
murdering them. Instead of these official government murders being held
accountable for their actions against what is supposed to be law for all,
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake blamed the people. Baltimore Mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake blamed the people, some would say her people, for being
angered and outraged, reacting to the injustice done to them and not herself for
not creating a system that would have prevented the injustice from happening to
her people. Instead of viewing the reaction of the people, her people, to the
murder of Carlos, “Freddie” Gray Jr. and their frustration and calls for justice
as thuggery, earlier discussions about oppression and abuse could have served as
prevention, and maybe, Carlos, “Freddie” Gray Jr. might be alive
today.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The discussion about the
struggle against oppression and abuse in America has become cliché to some
people including many African Americans like fifty year old former teen actress
and D list celebrity Stacey Dash. The discussion is said to be no longer useful
in ending the oppression and abuse yet the reality is that the actual oppression
and abuse continues to happen. Instead of growing weary of the discussion, the
discussion should serve as a wakeup call that more efforts, and different
efforts to ending the abuse and oppression need to happen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The discussion also serves to inform the
misinformed like Ms. Dash, as well as future generations about former forms of
abuse and how to prevent them from ever happening again. Also, no matter how
many times the same thing is said, the repetition should not foster an attitude
of apathy like Ms. Dash’s but instead ignite a flame of unquestionably righteous
indignation. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alexander, Michelle, and Cornel West. <i>The New Jim
Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i>. Revised edition ed.
New York: New, 2012. Print.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Cheney Photographer photo album photoprint 1916.”
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-54968294147017394292016-02-19T09:45:00.000-08:002016-02-20T08:05:38.753-08:00What Threatens My existence What Threatens My Existence<br />
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What threatens my existence, immediately without question; White Supremacy. Most do and probably have tuned out now, thinking believing that they already know what I’ll write. Thinking, believing that they have already heard this before, and that’s is fine, that is a part of White Supremacy. White Supremacy threatens my existence because when I say, “White Supremacy” it causes people to hear, think, and assume I mean, “White people” when that’s not at all what I said. White Supremacy threatens my Existence because when I even mention it, I become the, “Angry Black Man” stereotype personified and whatever else someone’s imagination can conceive. In reality, if I was an Angry Black Man, I would have every right to be.<br />
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As an African, Same Gender Loving Male born in America, the white, heterosexual, Christian, male supremacy structure is my only true obstacle, my only direct threat and it is a constant daily one. Little things like the guy on Bart riding into the city believing its his right to take up two seats on a crowded train, one for him and one for his macbook, while I and others have to stand. White Male Supremacy is the belief that because he is getting off in the financial district and is fluid with millions, its ok. White Supremacy is belief that the coward cop has that allows him to think that something as small and insignificant as a gun will ever make him or her equal to me.<br />
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White supremacy threatens my existence because I see it in the hearts of some other Africans born here in America that will tell me, “Im not black enough” because I don’t wear wood cut Africa necklaces or silver Anhks. White Supremacy tells other Africans born in America that because I know a little bit about African spirituality then I must be running around putting roots on people and I need Jesus or Allah. Since when did a piece of material made by some poor person in china, sold to a poor person in America, help a poorer person in Africa? How could me just knowing about the gods my ancestors worshiped thousands of years before, merchants, conquerors and killers brought their gods to my ancestors homeland make me defective?<br />
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White supremacy threatens my existence because I see it in other people of color that look at me while im claiming pride in my Africanness and say its not the, “American Way” and that’s the problem with “people like me” because “We” need to assimilate.<br />
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This is how White supremacy threatens my existence, it teaches others to believe that my culture as it was and is, and myself, as I am and will be, should not exist.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">©Christopher
F. Brown 2016</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-40034721503346521092016-02-12T10:12:00.000-08:002016-02-12T10:12:01.515-08:00Comicbook Friends<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Adam Worlock is my best friend</div>
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He knew I never was</div>
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what they call</div>
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a bad guy<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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He knows what it was like for gods and kings <br />
When we go for love</div>
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we go hard<br />
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He could see <br />
more than anyone in the universe<br />
I knew and know <br />
myself<br />
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Its not about being cocky<br />
Its about doing and be me<br />
<br />
I can say that about my friend<br />
<br />
He needs to examine his self<br />
examine his personal issues<br />
Instead of pretending like they don’t exist<br />
The day will come when they want to fight him.<br />
Hes going to be kinda stuck<br />
<br />
But that’s what best friends are for<br />
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These days<br />
I'm out of that love game<br />
no more future ex’s<br />
no more making ex’s current<br />
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I'm <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reading <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and writing a few books<br />
getting back to meditating <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-53358533284438412102015-12-06T14:35:00.001-08:002015-12-06T14:35:15.608-08:00An Examination of and Identifying The Historical and Current Politics and Power of Black America Focusing On Comparing and Contrasting Aspects of The Civil Rights Movement And The Black Lives Matter Movement<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt" align="center"><span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">An Examination of and Identifying The Historical and Current Politics and Power of Black America Focusing On Comparing and Contrasting Aspects of The Civil Rights Movement And The Black Lives Matter Movement</font></font></span></u></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: 0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The, “Black Lives Matter” movement has brought the plight of African Americans and black people across the diaspora back to the forefront of mainstream western media. The reality of issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, the overwhelming and disproportionate nature of black unemployment rates, and what will be examined in this essay, the staggeringly high brutality and death outcomes African Americans disproportionately face when encountering police in America and the politics of such, have once again placed the African American community and the politics of and behind the African American community on the table. These discussions and debates have become reminiscent of the debates and discussions held in high offices about similar issues effecting African Americans in the reconstruction era, 1960s, and 1990s. Little has been done outside of the African American community by elected political officials to effect and change said issues facing the African American community. The question then becomes, do Black Lives Matter only long as they equate a politically liberal, democratic voting block that can be counted on as part of a political base and will the leaders of the African American community be satisfied with high ranking liberal political figures saying their names and handing empty promises and vapid to no efforts of aid.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: 0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">As did Booker T. Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and many other black leaders of respective eras met with high ranking figures in American politics, the leaders of the, “Black Lives Matter” movement have also met with high ranking figures in American politics with the exception of the President of the United States, whom in this era is paradoxically and ironically African American. At the Congressional Black Caucus’ annual legislative conference, Khalilah Harris, Deputy Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans said, “The administration definitely considers Black Lives Matter, because we agree that Black Lives Matter,” Harris later went on to say, “We understand the nuance of being clear that everyone is a valuable person the moment that they are born.” she went on to say that those in government should be tasked with making sure they use “race consciousness” when considering policy, something she says the White House is currently doing. <span class="selectable">(Coleman)</span></font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font style="font-size: 12pt">  </font></span></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: 0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">While Franklin Roosevelt initially took a big political risk in redefined the Democratic Party in the 1930s, with promises that the new deal would affect African Americans in positive ways, it was the Civil Rights Movement that solidified African Americans within the ranks of the Democratic Party, both as a dependable voting block and source of political power. These moves further displayed that American politics and the African American Community were married to one another yet the Democratic or Republican parties have done little of the own volition to directly address the unequal treatment that African Americans face in regards to</font></font></span><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 11pt"> </font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">criminal justice, police brutality and or death outcomes, unemployment and other aspects of systematic inequality faced by African Americans. </font></span><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Much of the state of “Black Politics” can be viewed and revealed through comparing and contrasting the Black Lives Matter movement with the Civil Rights Movement through a historical lens. </font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The assumption might be made that by President Obama being The United States first, and so far only, African American President, the politics that have arisen and surround The Black Lives Matter movement would affect him personally. The reality is that President Obama has only given verbal support to The Black Lives Matter movement by making statements such as,</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">". . .there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we've got to address."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>("President Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement.")</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The problem occurs when he then follows that statement with other statements like, </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"understand the overwhelming majority of law enforcement's doing the right thing and wants to do the right thing" and "recognize that police officers have a really tough job and we're sending them into really tough neighborhoods that sometimes are really dangerous and they've got to make split-second decisions." ("President Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement.")</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"><font style="font-size: 12pt">            </font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt">By having these two statements follow eachother, he does a fine job of addressing both sides of the assumed issue and gives an allusion of being nonpartisan on what should be a nonpartisan issue but these two statements negate eachother. If the overwhelming majority of law enforcement was doing the right thing, at all times, then it would stand to reason that there is a specific element within law enforcement that not only escapes the already implemented policies to weed out agents that seek to do specific harm to the African American community, but in fact, find ways to specifically target the African-American community. It also stands to reason that if the understanding is established that as a law enforcement agent you will be sent into dangerous neighborhoods and have to make instantaneous life or death decisions, an extra emphasis should be placed on making sure that whatever decisions that said law enforcement officer makes, they are not one made out of racial bias or prejudice, or one that is intended for specific harm.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: .5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"><font style="font-size: 12pt">            </font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt">The president, or Congress, could enact special legislation, or begin the process of legislation, that would task people with the power of special oversight of local law enforcement; such actions had been put in place during the Civil Rights Movement to protect African Americans. Federal Marshals were sent into southern states to protect African Americans not only from the population that sought to do them harm but from the corrupt officials that openly violated federal law by not protecting African Americans from the population that intended harm, or even those officials that participating in the harming of African Americans (</font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: ">Reuters</span><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">). What has taken place under President Obama’s administration is that the United States attorney, general, whom is also African American and the person that would be responsible to investigate the killings, misdoings, and widespread corruption that has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, is instead investigating the corruption of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fédération Internationale de Football Association aka FIFA (</span></font><span style="font-family: "><font style="font-size: 12pt">Staff). FIFA is the international governing body of soccer, a sport that North Americans care little about, but if the her actions of investigating FIFA and not the wide spread corruption of the death outcomes of African Americans interacting with local police, then one could draw the conclusion that North Americans care even less about black lives than they do soccer. This act personifies the blatant disregard for black lives that the Black Lives Matter movement speaks to and about. However the President, and Hillary Clinton have been very vocal about their plans to strengthen gun control laws and about what they both view as the regrettable and deplorable routine of recent mass shootings (Harris). Bills with various implications and plans to affect gun control have been swiftly crafted, and just as swiftly defeated in both houses and parties of Congress in the wake of the recent mass shootings (Everett). This then brings focus back to the question, do black lives actually matter to Americans, American politicians, and non-African Americans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"><font style="font-size: 12pt">            </font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt">This pattern of lip service and non-action squares with the political game and actions of some of the other members of the democratic party that have also only given lip-service to the current politics and issues concerning the African American community through the Black Lives Matter movement. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has had two notable encounters with members of the Black Lives Matter movement. After first incident, where a group of assumed Black Lives Matter protesters were not allowed into the main room of her presidential forum on substance abuse (Merica), Hillary Clinton had a fifteen minuet meeting with the members of the Black Lives Matter movement and told them,</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"Look, I don't believe you change hearts,". . ."I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not going to change every heart. You're not. (Merica)</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Again, her statements square with the Democratic Party as a whole and the president in that they say that they offer their support but have done very little to actually effect change or create policies or implement changes that would match her words. </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The second incident was an hour long meeting where she and they discussed, “militarization of police, violence against black members of the LGBT community, and the so-called "school-to-prison" pipeline.”(Tani). The meeting concluded with the two main representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement stating, “they are still waiting to hear more specifics about how Clinton will actually implement the changes she proposed in the meeting.” (Tani) This again furthers the point that in liberal politics, one addresses the issues and concerns of minority groups to secure the support of those groups and to also appear to be apathetic to their issues in the eyes of the non-minority liberal community, but historically, little is actually ever done by these liberal candidates bases to effect change, and if anything thing is done it is because of overwhelming force or pressure calls for them to act.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">A less direct approach of the Democratic Party was one implemented by the Democratic National Committee. The Black Lives Matter organization had sought a direct debate with the members of the Democratic National Committee candidates. This debate did not happen. A direct debate was rejected by the DNC and a town hall-style forum was offered in its place ("President Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement.") The issue with changing the discussion form was that a debate would allow Black Lives Matter members to directly address the candidates. A town hall style forum would allow candidates to take questions from all areas of the public, allowing them to ignore direct questions from the Black Lives Matter participants if the so chose. These are passive aggressive political power tactics that have been employed by liberal and or democratic politicians in the past.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In the 1960s the Kennedy brothers and the Democratic Party made it a point to offer a similar appearance of support for the Civil Rights Movement and Dr Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (Stanford University). In one instance in the 1960s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been jailed for a probation violation after participating in a sit-in in Atlanta (Stanford University). There were even speculations that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was left to serve out the four month sentence, he would be lynched in prison ("The Kennedys and Civil Rights."). JFK called Coretta Scott King offering her words of support and concern while Robert Kennedy made calls to the judge and governor and used his power as a senator to have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. released, both against the advice of their staff saying they may lose their southern support (Duke). While this act may have seemed noble and righteous, it was really a calculated move by the Kennedys because even though this may have seemed small, so small that the mainstream media of the time ignored it, the African American community payed attention and Martin Luther King Sr, whom had just as great of standing with the African American community as his son, switched sides and stopped endorsing Nixon and endorsed Kennedy ("The Kennedys and Civil Rights.") With Dr. Martin Luther King Sr’s support many older African Americas threw their support behind Kennedy as well. This tactical move ultimately paid off because, “The black vote was pivotal in the swing states of Illinois, Michigan, and South Carolina that Kennedy carried.”( "The Kennedys and Civil Rights.") This simple political power move was not lost on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because he made it known that he himself and his personal organizations did not fully support either candidate. This is strikingly similar to how Alicia Graza, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, stated how the Black Lives Matter network as a whole does not endorse and republican or democratic candidate (New York Post,.). When asked why Graza said,</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">“It’s too early in the development of the network and it’s too early in the genesis of the movement to rally around anyone in particular who hasn’t demonstrated that they feel accountable to the Black Lives Matter movement or network,’. . .‘What we’ve seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives,’ she said. ‘We don’t think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make Black Lives Matter.”’</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The concerns of Graza are historically valid because while the Kennedy brothers publically used and supported King, his supporters, and the Civil Rights Movement to tentatively gain the pivotal “black vote,” Robert Kennedy as attorney general authorized a phone tap of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>King's and his associates' phones, homes, and offices. (Christensen). Kennedy also dictated to the FBI the "delicacy of this particular matter" and that he wanted to be personally informed of any pertinent information (Christensen). The FBI watched King from 1958 until his death and due to a court order, some information will not be released until 2027 ("Pickler Memorial Library.").</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The Democratic candidate’s actions are in sharp contrast to the Republican candidate’s actions in regards to The Black Lives Matter movement. Jeb Bush, a republican presidential candidate, claimed to have had a private meeting with members of the Black Lives Matter movement but it was later confirmed that no actual members of the Black Lives Matter movement were in this private meeting.(Liebelson) The people whom were in this private meeting were a local elected official [that is black], a GOP lobbyist[that is black], and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization[that is black] (Liebelson). This again follows a historical pattern. While liberal politicians have been willing to work and meet with African Americans to discuss the issues effecting the African American community, conservatives have been the ones either causing the harm or refusing to help African Americans. </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font style="font-size: 12pt">During the Civil Rights Movement one of the most vocal and out right openly racists that opposed any advancement of African Americans was George Wallace, whom was a member of the KKK and governor Alabama (Karson). He is most infamously remembered for a speech in which he said in regards to race relations, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” (Karson). With this historical remembrance of conservative treatment, many African American activists like </font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: ">Marissa Johnson, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Seattle, refuse to even engage conservatives. When questions why the Black Lives Matter movement had not, at that time, engaged the GOP she stated that there would be, “</span></font><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">no point to confronting the GOP … during the primaries, because GOP members will pretty much tell you flatly that they don't care about black lives.”(Lillis).</font></span><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><font style="font-size: 14pt"> </font></span></font><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In conclusion, </font></span><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the political issues of race that the Black Lives Matter movement have raised again, such as criminal justice, employment and other issues of equity facing the African American community have been largely ignored by American politicians, from the sitting democratic African American president to the conservative republican presidential candidate. What little attention they have given African American politics and the Black Lives Matter movement have only equated to lip service and photo opps but no actual efforts of change has been put in motion like there has been for issues like gun control.</font></span></font><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 11pt"> </font></font><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></span><font style="font-size: 12pt">The idea and reality of Black politics in America, even with a sitting African American president, still remains something that to liberal politicians is good to talk about and be seen around, but there is no need to actually effect change. As the Federal government stepped in to assist African Americans during the reconstruction era, and the during the Civil Rights movement, so too should the federal government take initiative and step in now. Instead of being the lead investigators of corruption of the governing body of a sport that most North Americans do not care about, actually investigate how a “pattern” of “isolated incidences” not only continue to happen resulting in the deaths of African Americans at the hands of local law enforcement but also, enact change, establish laws, so that it stops and can never happen again to show that black lives actually do matter to those that are not black. </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 31.5pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -31.5pt" align="right"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 13pt" align="center"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Works Cited</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Christensen, Jen. "FBI Tracked King's Every Move." <i>CNN</i>. Cable News Network, 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. <http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..fbi.conspiracy/>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Coleman, Christina. 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Web. 05 Dec. 2015. <http://fox13now.com/2014/01/20/rare-recording-of-martin-luther-king-jr-talking-about-john-f-kennedy-released/>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Everett, Burgess, and Seung Min Kim. "Gun Measures Fail in Senate." <i>POLITICO</i>. Politico, 3 Dec. 2015. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/gun-amendment-democrats-216389>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Harris, Gardiner, and Michael D. Shear. "Obama Condemns ‘Routine’ of Mass Shootings, Says U.S. Has Become Numb." <i>The New York Times</i>. The New York Times, 01 Oct. 2015. 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Web. 06 Dec. 2015. <http://www.blackpast.org/1963-george-wallace-segregation-now-segregation-forever>.</font></font></span><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 31.5pt; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -31.5pt"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Libelson, Dana, and Ryan J. Reilly. "Inside Hillary Clinton's Meeting With Black Lives Matter." <i>Huffpost Politics</i>. N.p., 9 Oct. 2015. Web. 2 Dec. 2015. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-lives-matter-hillary-clinton_56180c44e4b0e66ad4c7d9fa>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Lillis, Mike. "Black Lawmakers Back Disruptions of Sanders, Democrats' Events." <i>TheHill</i>. N.p., 13 Aug. 2015. Web. 01 Dec. 2015. <http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250993-black-lawmakers-stand-behind-disruptions-of-sanders-dem-events>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Merica, Dan. "Hillary Clinton Speaks with Black Lives Matter Activists - CNNPolitics.com." <i>CNN</i>. Cable News Network, 18 Aug. 2015. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">New York Post,. 'Black Lives Matter won't endorse presidential candidate'. 2015. 2 Dec. 2015 <http://nypost.com/2015/09/19/black-lives-matter-wont-endorse-presidential-candidate/>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"Pickler Memorial Library." <i>FBI File on Martin Luther King</i>. Truman State University, 2014. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. <https://library.truman.edu/microforms/martin_luther_king.asp>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"President Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement." <i>CBSNews</i>. CBS Interactive, 23 Oct. 2015. Web. 01 Dec. 2015. <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-barack-obama-defends-black-lives-matter-movement/>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Reuters, Thomas. "Civil Rights: Law and History - FindLaw." <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Findlaw.</i> N.p., 2015. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. &lt;http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/civil-rights-law-and-history.html&gt;.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Staff, ESPN. "FIFA Corruption Investigation May Lead to More Indictments - Attorney General." <i>ESPNFC.com</i>. ESPN, 14 Sept. 2014. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. &lt;http://www.espnfc.us/fifa-world-cup/story/2611725/fifa-corruption-investigation-could-lead-to-more-indictments&gt;.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Stanford University. "Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)." <i>Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)</i>. The Martin Luther King, Jr.Stanford University’s The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2015. <http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kennedy_john_fitzgerald_1917_1963/>.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Tani, Maxwell. "Hillary Clinton Had a 'candid' Hour-long Meeting with Black Lives Matter Activists about Racial Injustice." <i>Business Insider</i>. Business Insider, Inc, 10 Oct. 2015. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 13pt; text-indent: -0.5in"><span style="font-family: ; line-height: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"The Kennedys and Civil Rights." <i>PBS</i>. PBS, 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2015. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedys-and-civil-rights/>.</font></font></span></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-38971263698280995622015-11-29T22:53:00.001-08:002015-11-29T22:53:55.256-08:00Party of the third Party<p> <br /><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">If you are going to love a dreamer</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You can not be controlling</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You can not be manipulative</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">their spirit</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">their passion</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">would be sacrificed</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">because of their love for you</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">because of their love of you </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">it would be because of you</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">love ultimately fermented into resent and hate</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">dreams turned to nightmares at the very mention of your existence</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You can not be weak</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You can not be moveable</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Their fire</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">their vision</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">would juggernaut the mightiest of the weary</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">tears shed in the quiet of the dark</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">desires whispered in the secret of shadows</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">would never be known to them</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The dreamer is Blind</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">not deaf</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">not dumb</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">If you are going to love a dreamer</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You must be courageous </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You must be adventurous </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">To love a dreamer is to bed risk</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">To love a dreamer is to set a permanent place for gamble</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the acknowledgement of chance</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the acceptance of failure</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Loving a dreamer is to know </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the only place of honor</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is not with them</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is with the dream</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Loving a dreamer is to know</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the only pedestal</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is not for them </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is reserved for the dream</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Loving a dreamer is to know</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">they will love you</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">position their lives around you</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">but their purpose</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">their only purpose</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is the dream</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Jamaicans</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to meet Nigerians that speak</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Igbo </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Kenyans that laugh at the Swahili I learned in Berkeley</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Ugandans that correct my Mandarin </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Tanzanians that teach me how to say it in Cantonese </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to tour the holy city Ile-Ife</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">trace the pilgrimage path of Mansa Musa</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">then circle back to Timbuktu</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">See the reminders of Aksum</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">See the remainders of Kmt</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Touch the Earth and envision the buildings that my ancestors constructed</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">thousands of years before they were invaded thousands of times </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">leaving </font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the still standing walls that others never believed were thousands of years old</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">till their, “science” said so</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to board a barge in the south and flow north with the Nile</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I wonder what eight others will join me </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to walk the same trail</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that was the first trail</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">compare my foot print</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">to the first foot print</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The vision I see</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The things I want to do</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The escape I want to take</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Isnt one that is new</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Its one that is old</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">so old that its in the blood</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">in the very fabric and design</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">of all that claim</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Human</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">What I want is a realization</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">no</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">a reawakening</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">of my genetic inheritance</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">of my ancestral birthright </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">What calls me is the land so old</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">its true name</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">its original tongue</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">is the only </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">can only</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">be labeled </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The First </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">There</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that is what calls to me</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">There</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that is what pushes me</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that is the very intangible force that pulsates my heart </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">pumping the blood through my veins</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">That place that is forever older than old</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">yet</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In a constant state of</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Reconstruction</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Recreation</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Revelation</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Renovation</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Revitalization</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Revolution</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to breath the air in that place that is always in a state of newness</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want to feel the frequency in that place </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">where there are as many words for new </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">as there are people to speak them</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">That is the place</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">That is the space</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">That is</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">© Christopher F. 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Brown</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-41866481599021654132015-11-11T15:10:00.001-08:002015-11-11T15:10:53.600-08:00Accidently Whished Upon A Star<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You scare the shit out of me</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I know</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I've said this before</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">So many things</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">about you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">just like new</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">So many things</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">about you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">just like old</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">There is enough mystery</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">about you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">to where I am reminded of lifetimes</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">before you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Them's, We's, Us' </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">before you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">There is enough mystery</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">about you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">to where I can not foresee how this could end</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">but I know that is the lie I want to</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I always try to</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">force into being truth</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I haven’t learned not to like that yet.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The cards keep giving me </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">moons, chariots, and wheels of faith</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I just want to see the lover</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">It could be that</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I know it’s not </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">It could be that</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I want it to be </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">so I'll just leave it up to</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015 <br /> <br /> <br /></font> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6825a108-156d-4f01-bc84-243269dc5717" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Accidently+Wished+Upon+A+Star" rel="tag">Accidently Wished Upon A Star</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poetry" rel="tag">Poetry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.+com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress. com</a></div> </font></span></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-34227705529039166232015-11-11T14:28:00.001-08:002015-11-11T14:28:04.537-08:00Assassination of Sight<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In this world</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Weeds are worshiped as beautiful</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Roses are cast to compost as a vulgarity</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In this world</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Worms matter the most</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">consuming roses </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">one of their favorite past times</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">one of their favorite foods</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The greater the weed’s ability</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">to choke the rose</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the greater the weed’s glory</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In this world</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Roses are hated</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">especially their thorns.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8d6177a7-0036-4695-8baf-c32b45e91369" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/assassination+of+sight" rel="tag">assassination of sight</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/poetry" rel="tag">poetry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress.com</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-73835814879904537252015-11-08T10:03:00.001-08:002015-11-08T10:03:15.651-08:00Crazy For Me<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The so called, “Negro Spiritual”</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">invented on hot fields of cotton and tobacco </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">birthed of blood, whips, and sweat</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">tears served no purpose.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The, “Blues”</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">came with freedom</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that wasn’t really free</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that could be taken at a moment’s notice</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that wasn’t guaranteed </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">only those that were actually</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">free</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">could even understand</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">could even care</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">“Jazz”</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Jazz is funny</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Jazz came into the world</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">smiling</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">in the rain.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9d23877e-bcd7-49ae-9466-be7a91256ac8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Crazy+For+Me" rel="tag">Crazy For Me</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/poetry" rel="tag">poetry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress.com</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-53142144425496008012015-11-08T09:20:00.001-08:002015-11-08T09:20:03.434-08:00The African American is Dead; Long live the African<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The African American</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">has had their time</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">has had their place</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They have bled out every drop of blood</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They have emptied every duct purposed for tear</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They have broken</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">every bone</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">constructed and combined to form a back</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The African American</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">has long dreamt dreams </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">days yet to come</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">days gone by</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The African American has to awaken to their reality</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">die to their fantasy</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">We are:</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Africans</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">in</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">America </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Africans</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">in</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">The Diaspora</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:261926f0-0778-4cf2-b9d7-f9404414c700" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/The+African+American+is+Dead+Long+live+the+African" rel="tag">The African American is Dead Long live the African</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress.com</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/poetry" rel="tag">poetry</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-79325091617522343172015-09-19T18:46:00.001-07:002015-09-19T18:50:44.704-07:00Sound Of A Butterfly<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They made a movie about nwa </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">accepted Jazz as my personal musical savoir.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-19439907341713053002015-09-12T18:32:00.001-07:002015-09-12T18:32:57.833-07:00Murica<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They say,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"America loves a winner."</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I ask,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"Why doesn't America like Serena?"</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They say,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"America loves an underdog?"</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I ask,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"Why doesn't America like Serena?"</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They say,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"America loves a good fight and fighter."</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I say,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">"I already know why but would you,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">America,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">ever admit</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Just once.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">You know what,</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Nevermind."</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">© Christopher F. 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Brown</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-50050648685664734352015-08-28T09:40:00.001-07:002015-08-28T09:40:39.056-07:00“No Name in The Street” by James Baldwin: A review<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7tQPHigH-74/VeCPAv9KfqI/AAAAAAAAJfw/t_TxdGWxXqk/s1600-h/nonameinthestreet%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="nonameinthestreet" style="background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="nonameinthestreet" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nBi5FcbfuzY/VeCPBMcuE1I/AAAAAAAAJf4/MpUTiqpLp40/nonameinthestreet_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="330" align="left" height="330" /></a>“No Name in The Street” is the title given to a work of art James Baldwin penned in 1972. This production of a master wordsmith chronicles certain events of his life up until that point. It’s poignant that the words he forged 42 years ago are still razor sharp and piercing in regards to the times and issues of today. His words then, as they are now, are glowing red hot concerning the issues of today. It is a great failing of American society and culture that these words, this wisdom titled “No Name in The Street” has been meat in the pot of American sub consciousness for nearly half a century, and the same words are still said and still, fall on deaf ears and dead hearts. The same passionate reactions and same pin point accuracy that “No Name in The Street” voiced about race relations, police brutality, and the injustice of the American system labeled justice, has not changed. The attitudes that birth and nurse these demons of society have only evolved and added technological ways of camouflaging themselves, but the same bitter and rotten blood that Baldwin wrote of still pumps vigorously through America’s veins.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I would not say that is an autobiography in the traditional, or what a publisher would ask for sense. “No name in The Street” does not follow the liner path that has become the rule-of-law prescribed to modern and most autobiographies. The book does open with him writing about his childhood but what he does write about circles the relationship between his older brother and father. The book then jumps about twenty years or so to his time in France, witnessing the brutality that Algerians were suffering. Baldwin, like Langston Hughes, marveled at how well the French treated him as a Blackman from America, shellshockingly different from the treatment he had received in America. Baldwin, like Langston, soon came to see that was only spared the tragedy of American style hate in this society because at that time in France it was already in use and they focused it upon North Africans. Baldwin, like Langston, eventually had enough and could not idle hemisphere away while witnessing a people not his own suffer like his people whom were being brutalized in America and eventually left.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">In “No Name in The Street” Baldwin gives praise to the Black Panthers, something that very few black public figures did at all at that time and rarely ever did openly. He addresses how the police were constantly on guard and the instigators with the panthers. How the media painted the panthers as violet gun totters but never spoke of the community programs that were started by the panthers. Baldwin even wrote about how it frustrated the police that the panthers were not in possession, even in the smallest amount, of the fear that the they attempted to instill. Baldwin also speaks of his depression having spoken with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King face to face weeks and even days before they both were assassinated. He wrote that the new suit he brought to meet Martin and then for an event with Malcolm also became the suit he wore to their funerals and how he could never bring himself to ever wear that suit again. The suit also became an entry way back into the neighborhood he grew up in and showed him how much he had transitioned from what people thought they knew about him to what was actually the truth about him.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">By Christopher F. 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This is interview I conducted at thelegengspanel.com, go check it out<p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.thelegendspanel.com/entertainment-blog/hip-hop-started-in-the-heart-and-is-still-there-an-interview-with-the-artist-y-jelal-laluddin-huyler" target="_blank">http://www.thelegendspanel.com/entertainment-blog/hip-hop-started-in-the-heart-and-is-still-there-an-interview-with-the-artist-y-jelal-laluddin-huyler</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-86999601985428180912015-08-07T01:40:00.001-07:002015-08-07T01:40:31.691-07:00Ghosts In Shells<p align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">in between shadows </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the sounds of quiet in the night </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">riding the backs of afternoon breezes</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">caressing the cold outsides of windows </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">existing as someone</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">other</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">memories of fragrances navigating auras </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></span></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">They are not there</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">fires by moonlight </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">rivers deep beneath earthen floors </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; 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line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">still </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">It's not done</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">©Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:454d3096-b826-4d4a-bafe-19548a60ba57" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Ghosts+In+Shells" rel="tag">Ghosts In Shells</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/poetry" rel="tag">poetry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress.com</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-34608282117905475442015-08-04T14:45:00.001-07:002015-08-04T14:45:48.783-07:00A Parsec Away<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">On the planet where I live</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">gambling and narcissism</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">are recognized for the diseases they are</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">racism and homophobia</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that's just people being people</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Here</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">having a conversation with some is battle</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">mental exhibition bouts with jaw juggernauts</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">most only listen for their position to pounce</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Never hearing a thing</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">favors and helping hands</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">well laid traps and plans sewing deeply rooted weeds</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">intended to bind over time</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">your worth is assessed by how much value you can acquire for other</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">animals are measured greater than people</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">it makes sense</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">People have yet to meet or even be human</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Here</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I'm not the type of Blackman you see on TV</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">six feet tall maybe taller over three hundred pounds</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">a well-read autodidact master of many things</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">On the planet where I live</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">that is considered a threat</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Here</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the goal is to populate Mars</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">before the pollution on Earth becomes inhospitable </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">to the people of Earth</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">after all</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Mars is ours for the taking</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Here</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you're supposed to mow your neighbor's lawn</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">while your back yard is overgrown</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">while your kitchen burns down</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">On the planet where I live</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">all of this is common knowledge</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">some say sense</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">It's spoken of and considered </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">immoral and deplorable</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Here</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">if you exist in any different or other way</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you're labeled</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">one of the crazies and shunned</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">you’re supposed to know its wrong</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">not admit to it</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">© Christopher F. Brown 2015</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal" align="center"><span style="font-family: "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8cb01bb2-53a2-47c1-bc2e-cf7ab010fbcd" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="width: 345px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/A+Parsec+Away" rel="tag">A Parsec Away</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/poetry" rel="tag">poetry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christopher+F.+Brown" rel="tag">Christopher F. Brown</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/a1abwriter.wordpress.com" rel="tag">a1abwriter.wordpress.com</a></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11413583303828509283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8325624670678759265.post-83525638164024742542015-08-02T07:55:00.001-07:002015-08-02T07:55:58.655-07:00VIP<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I’m not one for </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Status and Privilege </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I don’t want or need to be </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Exclusively VIP </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I don’t need a special thing </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Just for me </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Just because </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Yes </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I am a unique and wonderful creature </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Yes </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I can do many things most can’t </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Yes </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Some times </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Most times </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">I’m the only one </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">We all possess god given abilities </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">Natural unlearned talents </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the cheetah naturally being seven steps ahead of its prey </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt">the sun issuing forth heat and light </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto"><span style="font-family: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 12pt"> </font></font></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; 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