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I Am BlakaMale (BlakaMale)

As I was stolen from my birthplace never to see my elders face again not knowing eventually I would be for sale in a land destined to catch hell, I am BlakaMale.
You beat my body and leave scars of shame gave me your name as I endured the pain as my mind reminded unchained as I play your game seeking freedom I would find through reading those books regardless how long it took. That taught me I am one of a kind and my mind is not for sale, I am BlakaMale.

From the slave ships up through scholarship I am the envy of the world as I am told because of mind, body, and spirited soul. This black skin I’m in is hated by the rest until the untold truth revealed I am the best who started the human test. Trying to destroy me you will fail, I am BlakaMale. In Virginia of 1663 my kind was made to work in the fields while your kind got the inside deal to be in the big house on the hill.You worked me from early morning until late into the night without lights but my mind remains strong and I continues to fight because the thought of my elders and my natural birthright sustained me never to fail, I am BlakaMale. The red, black, and green oh what a beautiful scene. Red the blood we shed for liberation not occupation, Black the beauty of the skin I am in that others may see as a sin but bake in the sun to get some. And finally green the health from the wealth of mother Africa’s birth to the world’s worth as the richest continent on earth. With skin tones that are diamond black to the sands that are shades of pale, oh she produce me too, I am BlakaMale. Killed, branded, beaten, whipped, choked, crippled, maimed, blinded, shot, raped, stole and sold that includes the young and the old. I survived 400 hundred years of that mentioned above without no love inflicted by the white human hand trying to break me as a man with signs for sale still, I am BlakaMale. Producing nothing but pain aching, breathe taking, back breaking, sun baking, heart breaking and human taking from an American made hell with no one to tell. The only thing America gave a Blackman was hell and charged him rent but we survived and became America’s 44th president.
From the government approved tricks used in the medicine to make me sick I will continue to survive the American made hell still, I am BlakaMale. Increase the Peace BlakaMale

18 comments:

  1. Powerful perspective and articulation concerning the history of this experience for our people. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. Powerful,speechless and that's our history that's not taught to our Black African American kids. I must share this is to Powerful not to share.

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  3. Beautiful...Learn, Earn, Return at its finest!!

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  4. Powerful, moving, rich in my mind He Is BLACKAMALE!!!

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  5. Very powerful, brings back memories. It also reminds me of Bob Marley songs of life and the struggles of dark skin people.

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  6. Awesome Powerful Factual Emotional you took me on a journey of our ancestors then and now This is Black History thank you for sharing

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  7. Totally awesome!!!! This tells of the 400 plus years of disenfranchisement, denial, disrespect and despair that has been bestowed on Black MEN and WOMEN!!!!

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  8. Beautiful and powerful. Facts at a time when the world can not deny our story.

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  9. Powerful my brother. Crawdog

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  10. Awesome job. Your description of Black history not only shows the struggle but depicts the passion of survival, the movement for progression and highlights a sense of accomplishment.

    RED

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  11. Awesome expression of the pain to gain struggles experienced by the worlds greatest gift and creation. 👊🏽🙏🏾

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  12. Powerful and Emotional! The pain and struggles that Black people had to endure is unspeakable! Black History at it's finest! I am BlakaMale

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  13. Great job my brother..I would like to add that they know who we are now it's time for us to realize who we really are and speak truth to power...United as one we control the universe..power to the PEOPLE

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  14. BlakaMale is such an original piece that speaks to the history and struggles of the BlakaMale. We should not let our pass define us. We should uplift the BlakaMale in our communities. Learn, earn, and return. Live in peace and give back. Thank you for sharing your originality with us.

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  15. This really speaks to the feelings many Black men have today.

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