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This poem will be featured in my upcoming work "The Chain Breakers" set to premier black history month 2.14.2018 on Amazon by M.D. Johnson
From the shores
Of L’Afrique
To enslavement
Upon a slaver’s ship
To America
Home of the brave
Land of the free
Passed war &
Passed Civil Rights
Right back into the clutches of captivity
To prison
-enslavement
-in amazement
-I’m complacent
It’s no mystery
-the hypocrisy
14 million whites and
2.6 million blacks
Report illicit drug use
Yet, despite the fact that
5 times as many whites are using as blacks,
Blacks are sent to prison at 10 times the rate of whites.
I’m not making light
Of the fact
Or pointing the finger
At the other guy
I’m just saying
There’s a major disparity
In the system
And there is no alibi
For the fact
We still aren’t free
-shackles
-handcuffs
Are still at the bridge
Of my disparaging
It’s time to set us free…
