God, the "Great Iconoclast."
  • Alma Turner
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Amend
“White”
to
“Black”

for
Whites
​only

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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.


​


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  • Alma Turner
    • Alma Turner
    • Site Overview
    • Alma's Blessings
  • 12 Steps
    • Step 1: Humility >
      • Step One Questions
    • Step 2: Hope
    • Step 3: Faith
    • Step 4: Honesty >
      • Money Inventory
    • Step 5: Trust
    • Step 6: Willingness
    • Step 7: Surrender
    • Step 8: Forgiveness
    • Step 9: Justice >
      • Amend White to Black
    • Step 10: Perseverance >
      • Fear Watch
    • Step 11: Contact
    • Step 12: Service
  • Poems, Prayers, Music
    • Beloved Poems by Others >
      • I Stand at the Door by Sam Shoemaker
      • Prayer to the Great Spirit
      • The Guest House by Rumi
      • The Invitation by Oriah
      • Elohai Neshama
    • Poems by Alma >
      • Poems 2017-2020
      • More Poems by Year >
        • Poems 2021
        • Poems 2022
        • Poems 2023
        • Poems 2024
      • Clay Haiku
      • Beatitude Poems
      • Hurricane Ida Poems
      • Prayer Poems
      • Injustice Poems
    • Big Book Prayers
    • Variations on the Familiar >
      • Lord's Prayer Variations
      • Serenity Prayer Variation
      • Creed Variation
      • Psalm Variations
      • Parables etc Variations
      • Invictus Variations
    • Letters
    • Music >
      • Roberta Flack
      • Marvin Gaye
  • more
    • Bible Thoughts >
      • Count the Omer
      • yeshua hamashiach >
        • Books on the Journey to J
        • Brown or Black
        • Teacher
        • Son of Man
        • Activist
        • High Priest
        • Innocent
        • Lynched
        • Alive
        • Sayings >
          • Sayings 1-3
          • Sayings 4-6
          • Sayings 7-9
          • Sayings 10-12
          • Sayings 13-15
          • Sayings 16-18
          • Sayings 19-21
          • Sayings 22-24
          • Sayings 25-27
          • Sayings 28-30
          • Sayings 31-33
          • Sayings 34-36
          • Sayings 37, 38, 39
          • Sayings 40, 41, 42
          • Sayings 43, 44, 45
          • Sayings 46, 47, 48
          • Sayings 49, 50, 51
          • Sayings 52, 53, 54
          • Sayings 55, 56, 57
          • Sayings 58, 59, 60
          • Sayings 61, 62, 63
          • Sayings 64, 65, 66
          • Sayings 73, 74, 75
          • Sayings 76, 77, 78
          • Sayings 100, 101, 102
          • Sayings 103, 104, 105
          • Sayings 106, 107, 108
          • Sayings 109, 110, 111
          • Sayings 112, 113, 114
      • Genesis >
        • High Priest
        • Jacob is Israel.
      • Prophets >
        • Isaiah 30
        • Isaiah 54
        • Jeremiah 31:31-35
      • Frederick Douglas
    • Disciplines >
      • Fasting
      • Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer
      • Reading!
      • 12 White Steps
    • The Gospel of Thomas
    • Psalms >
      • Psalms for Mercy
      • Psalms 23, 46, 91, 139
      • Psalms 121, 1, and 32
    • The Odes of Solomon >
      • Ode 38
    • The Symbol >
      • The Circle and Triangle
    • Blog
    • Preparations
    • A Suggestion