Thomas Ross
ASIN: B00HSYJ5UW
Publisher: Ross Publications
Pages: 67
Excerpt from A Light Shines Through Darkness.Just forget it they said And I triedBut I cried until I tasted bloodAs I witnessed foreign shipsSailing boldly in route to the motherland with plans to rob her of her greatest assets Just let it go they saidAnd I tried But still I find myself Frantically reaching out Clinging on to every last bit Of my heritage, my history , my Africa As the first enslaved brother must have.But slavery didn't effect you they sayAnd I agreedBut I was wrong it seemsBecause we are still in this boat together Shackled side by side Chained down by ignorance and self hateIn the sweltering heat of manic oppressionForced fed materialism and instant gratification Until we are good and full with vain conceit that we begin to relieve our bowels all over each other They told me to suck it up the Jews had it worstBut I couldn't Engulfed in wave after wave of lynchings ...