bravenak's words
Posted with permission.
America, America...
We call ourselves the free,
but we cannot free ourselves.
Open secrets,
hidden in plain sight,
dusty tomes on our shelves.
Our society is ill,
sick,
in disarray.
America,
America,
who are you today?
Police state holds the mighty men,
safe in their keeps.
Looking down upon us;
lowly peasants and sheep….
Power to the people!
The words – so strong,
are but air from our lips.
Words are merely wind;
but wind powers ships.
Old men molded the world,
and shaped the past.
They wrote the history,
they won at last!
But what man has made,
was not made to stay…
The old days are dead,
Yet they haunt us this day.
Don’t tell me what you were,
or what you’ve done.
How much you’ve taken,
how much you’ve won.
Your money,
your might,
you own the day!
America,
America,
we are on our way.
Old wounds not healed,
have blistered
and burst!
Our souls cry out
in desolation
and thirst.
A lustful hope,
(a needful want,)
that on a summer day….
America,
America,
will change the way….
We, use and abuse.
Rig the game to lose.
Separate the browns from the reds,
the pinks from the blues -
the lights from the darks,
with the blacks put away.
Oh, America,
America,
the games you play.
Time for us all
to reunify the race
there is but one –
the human
same face.
Together we are one;
but separate,
just dust.
America,
America,
America or bust.
~by bravenak
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Maybe she will share the link with you, many more there. I told her I wanted to post it without the link, to much personal info that I did not want on DU.
reading this week.. actually comforting to me after the surreal rage against #BlackLivesMatter when they dared to Protest @ NRN.
“To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.”- James Baldwin
Don
This Sandra Bland murder has touched me in a way like most of the murders of African Americans by the police haven’t. I think of this black woman driving alone cross country for her dream job getting pulled over and arrested for no apparent reason, and then being killed. Some of you can sit and wait for the investigation to conclude all you want to, but I don’t have. I’ve seen this movie before, and it always ends the same way. African Americans are no safer today than we were in the 60’s. Yes, we are richer and more educated and more socially mobile, but at the end of the day that won’t stop some police officer from putting us in our place if he or she feels like it. If Denzel Washington can’t get a cab in New York City, then what chance does a Sandra Bland have in driving cross county safely?
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/07/23/a-constant-state-of-rage/
"Together We Are One"
made me cry.. because it is so beautiful~ "For the way it should be"..
Thank you, I needed that, she~
you're special and let the clowns doubt you, their BIG loss. I love you... 
Your voices, strong and passionate and educational, in AA. When I post, I usually step back and just listen.
I love you to heaven. 
