Black his story

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I am
         told
Of great ancient
Black
Civilizations:
                    Kush
                    Egypt
Babylon
  Ur

Later
           Morocco
And the Moors

The power of black
Men
              Thinking
Building               theories
Cities

                Lost
Inside a white
His
          Story

Dark connotations
Of misery
And            ignorance
White lies

Bleaching the skin
Of melanin:
The rich texture
Of earth

Drowned
In the Middle
Passage:
                Black
Atlantis
Under the sea
Rising
In revolt

Toussaint
                L'Overtured
Nanny
                Marooned
Marcus
                Garveyed
Malcomn
                Xed
Martin Luther
                Kinged

And still

BLACK
             remains
The symbol
Of misery
And           ignorance.

Written by Nicholas Alexander

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