Amend White to Black
for Whites Only
Harm
to my sister,
graced
to see my abandonment
of her
to small town
wolves;
told her the
stuck-in-my-throat-for-years
truth one afternoon
from waiting-for-us
garden chairs;
moved forward
chastened
to change,
amend;
love dismembered
re-membered.
Harm
to my black brothers and sisters:
graced
to see wrongs
tell some truth
in this poem
to move forward from
a love, unity,
dis-membered;
(I speak
without consent
for “white" people.)
I make amends for:
Lies
about Black Africa’s
role as cradle
of all civilization
age to age
the same deception,
hiding Truth
of Luci’s testimony
humanity’s conception date,
of Annunaki
engineering energy,
uncovering the Creator
by observation
Ma’at’s verifiable
Good
Orderly
Direction
expressed by Africans
in mathematics,
God’s language:
formulas for
area of spheres,
value of pi,
volume of cylinders,
truncated pyramids,
ratio of spheres
to corresponding cylinders
trigonometric ratios
thousands of years
before the Greek hijack
for deaf ears
blind eyes
of those who saw
Archimedes’ lies,
erasing footprints
to sources of ideas:
“the genesis of the
great number of propositions:”
Ignorance
African seeds
of infinite and finite
in Heh, Hehet
for resurrection, redemption,
in Osiris and Isis,
and the trinity
“I was one:
I became three.”
for the Dogon's knowledge:
celestial effects
invisible star
one thimble forty tons
altering the orbit of Sirius
for discerning the relationship
of earth and sun,
for the calendar
for squelching minimizing
the truth of your science,
engineering,
teaching
as evidenced
in the alignment of
Giza’s pyramids
to Orion
to mathematical formulae.
Distortion
for portraying
Enoch and Daniel’s
woolly-haired
Ancient of Days’
as straight-haired,
white,
slender-nosed,
thin-lipped
for letting Constantine,
King James
warp the Word to be
un-loving
anti-loving
anti-rational
platform for
inaccessible suffocating theology
for failing to see
the parallel between
the black Son of Man
killed
on the cross
and black Sons of Man
killed
on poplar trees,
for separating
science, love, God
for lying so well
as to make truth
unbelievable.
Robbery
kidnapping stealing you oblivious
to majesty,
humanity
in beyond-cruel transport
cross-Atlantic coffins
multitudes tortured,
humiliated,
starved,
thrown to sharks
why
are we not weeping
hysterically
as movies, documentaries, books,
expose
our horrors
explicitly?
whites rage when pricked
while neutral to blacks'
impalement.
Cruelty
allowing laws,
underfunded jail-feeding schools,
predatory economics,
random violence
with nooses, bombs,
jails,
to terrorize, subjugate,
for robbery of peace
when on a bus,
driving to work,
selling CDs,
at church
walking in a hoodie...
for centuries of
racialized policing:
controlling movement,
pinning,
raping women,
chaining
restraining
men,
torture to domesticate
to extract
craved commodities:
cotton
sugar
indigo
tobacco
cocoa
for money
feeding our insatiable appetite
for more.
Oppression
litigation of
unequal, separate trains
leading to education,
bathrooms, water fountains
the same
for rendering
intelligence and wisdom as
"nice but ineffective,"
(John Lewis, Clayton Powell...)
intentionality, purpose as
"violent," "anti-American"
(Black Lives Matter, Colin Kapernick)
creativity, talent
as "natural to those people,"
(Beyonce, Michael, Quincy)
for blasting hope,
killing Malcolm
covering the conspiracy.
For blasting hope,
killing Martin
covering the conspiracy
for hissing
ignoring
Selassee’s plea to honor
the League of Nations’
promise to protect
as Italy annihilated a
generation of beauty,
carefully cultivated
to lead with love
for making inner-city-coke snow
for that blizzard’s
devastation of
black love,
relationships,
freedom,
spirituality,
integrity,
dignity,
people in endless jail
from a bogus drug war
stemming into justifying,
marketing mass incarceration
voting rights robbed again
Jim Crow
under a new mask.
Hypocrisy
reacting
to Irma's flood victims
with compassion
while breached-levees
Army Corps
"Katrina" victims caged
in a filthy fouled Superdome
For treating
white opioid addiction
with rehabilitation
while “Drug War” victims
police targeted,
incarcerated..
for fear of
your sons,
black men
when we should be
terrified of
our sons
white men
expert justifiers of cruelty:
joyful in brutality,
as torture-whipped productivity.
made cotton
picked by blood-soaked hands
19th century
get-rich commodity
Envy
of your women
music, way, faith
voyeurs of your culture
when we should have
raised a fist,
joined the song,
marched, knelt along
all along.
For innocent verdicts
for the beaters,
murderers
of Rodney King, Philadro Castile
Michael Brown, Tamir Rice
Anthony Lamar Smith, Alton Sterling…
for ravaging-grabbing
Boar-warring
for your resources
gold, uranium, diamonds, rubies…
for hope-crushing practices
fines, fees, police,
for not telling the truth
not shaming the devil
for ‘restricted’ roads, gated communities
for alt-right-out-right racism
klu kluxian obliteration distortion
of evidence for creating
the unholy trinity of Donald Trump,
David Dukes, Steve Bannon
Profiling
For falsely accusing
a black neighbor,
a young man
who turned out to work
at the local public school,
of stealing
$500
from my other neighbor
Silence
Expecting
funding money to set it straight
expecting
guilt to set it straight
expecting
gratitude for paltry efforts
expecting
judicial law to right the wrong
when heaven’s law
was and is broken,
expecting
forgiveness for nothing but the passage of time
the false hope something’s changed
expecting
politicians to make it right
expecting
a response when this poem is read.
for Whites Only
Harm
to my sister,
graced
to see my abandonment
of her
to small town
wolves;
told her the
stuck-in-my-throat-for-years
truth one afternoon
from waiting-for-us
garden chairs;
moved forward
chastened
to change,
amend;
love dismembered
re-membered.
Harm
to my black brothers and sisters:
graced
to see wrongs
tell some truth
in this poem
to move forward from
a love, unity,
dis-membered;
(I speak
without consent
for “white" people.)
I make amends for:
Lies
about Black Africa’s
role as cradle
of all civilization
age to age
the same deception,
hiding Truth
of Luci’s testimony
humanity’s conception date,
of Annunaki
engineering energy,
uncovering the Creator
by observation
Ma’at’s verifiable
Good
Orderly
Direction
expressed by Africans
in mathematics,
God’s language:
formulas for
area of spheres,
value of pi,
volume of cylinders,
truncated pyramids,
ratio of spheres
to corresponding cylinders
trigonometric ratios
thousands of years
before the Greek hijack
for deaf ears
blind eyes
of those who saw
Archimedes’ lies,
erasing footprints
to sources of ideas:
“the genesis of the
great number of propositions:”
Ignorance
African seeds
of infinite and finite
in Heh, Hehet
for resurrection, redemption,
in Osiris and Isis,
and the trinity
“I was one:
I became three.”
for the Dogon's knowledge:
celestial effects
invisible star
one thimble forty tons
altering the orbit of Sirius
for discerning the relationship
of earth and sun,
for the calendar
for squelching minimizing
the truth of your science,
engineering,
teaching
as evidenced
in the alignment of
Giza’s pyramids
to Orion
to mathematical formulae.
Distortion
for portraying
Enoch and Daniel’s
woolly-haired
Ancient of Days’
as straight-haired,
white,
slender-nosed,
thin-lipped
for letting Constantine,
King James
warp the Word to be
un-loving
anti-loving
anti-rational
platform for
inaccessible suffocating theology
for failing to see
the parallel between
the black Son of Man
killed
on the cross
and black Sons of Man
killed
on poplar trees,
for separating
science, love, God
for lying so well
as to make truth
unbelievable.
Robbery
kidnapping stealing you oblivious
to majesty,
humanity
in beyond-cruel transport
cross-Atlantic coffins
multitudes tortured,
humiliated,
starved,
thrown to sharks
why
are we not weeping
hysterically
as movies, documentaries, books,
expose
our horrors
explicitly?
whites rage when pricked
while neutral to blacks'
impalement.
Cruelty
allowing laws,
underfunded jail-feeding schools,
predatory economics,
random violence
with nooses, bombs,
jails,
to terrorize, subjugate,
for robbery of peace
when on a bus,
driving to work,
selling CDs,
at church
walking in a hoodie...
for centuries of
racialized policing:
controlling movement,
pinning,
raping women,
chaining
restraining
men,
torture to domesticate
to extract
craved commodities:
cotton
sugar
indigo
tobacco
cocoa
for money
feeding our insatiable appetite
for more.
Oppression
litigation of
unequal, separate trains
leading to education,
bathrooms, water fountains
the same
for rendering
intelligence and wisdom as
"nice but ineffective,"
(John Lewis, Clayton Powell...)
intentionality, purpose as
"violent," "anti-American"
(Black Lives Matter, Colin Kapernick)
creativity, talent
as "natural to those people,"
(Beyonce, Michael, Quincy)
for blasting hope,
killing Malcolm
covering the conspiracy.
For blasting hope,
killing Martin
covering the conspiracy
for hissing
ignoring
Selassee’s plea to honor
the League of Nations’
promise to protect
as Italy annihilated a
generation of beauty,
carefully cultivated
to lead with love
for making inner-city-coke snow
for that blizzard’s
devastation of
black love,
relationships,
freedom,
spirituality,
integrity,
dignity,
people in endless jail
from a bogus drug war
stemming into justifying,
marketing mass incarceration
voting rights robbed again
Jim Crow
under a new mask.
Hypocrisy
reacting
to Irma's flood victims
with compassion
while breached-levees
Army Corps
"Katrina" victims caged
in a filthy fouled Superdome
For treating
white opioid addiction
with rehabilitation
while “Drug War” victims
police targeted,
incarcerated..
for fear of
your sons,
black men
when we should be
terrified of
our sons
white men
expert justifiers of cruelty:
joyful in brutality,
as torture-whipped productivity.
made cotton
picked by blood-soaked hands
19th century
get-rich commodity
Envy
of your women
music, way, faith
voyeurs of your culture
when we should have
raised a fist,
joined the song,
marched, knelt along
all along.
For innocent verdicts
for the beaters,
murderers
of Rodney King, Philadro Castile
Michael Brown, Tamir Rice
Anthony Lamar Smith, Alton Sterling…
for ravaging-grabbing
Boar-warring
for your resources
gold, uranium, diamonds, rubies…
for hope-crushing practices
fines, fees, police,
for not telling the truth
not shaming the devil
for ‘restricted’ roads, gated communities
for alt-right-out-right racism
klu kluxian obliteration distortion
of evidence for creating
the unholy trinity of Donald Trump,
David Dukes, Steve Bannon
Profiling
For falsely accusing
a black neighbor,
a young man
who turned out to work
at the local public school,
of stealing
$500
from my other neighbor
Silence
Expecting
funding money to set it straight
expecting
guilt to set it straight
expecting
gratitude for paltry efforts
expecting
judicial law to right the wrong
when heaven’s law
was and is broken,
expecting
forgiveness for nothing but the passage of time
the false hope something’s changed
expecting
politicians to make it right
expecting
a response when this poem is read.
