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From the bleeding stolen womb of Africa to the dried navel of America…
Black Man Walking->
From the belly bowels of slave ships to auction blocks and cotton fields…
Black Man Walking->
From the plowed rows of cotton fields…with bloody keloid bent backs…
Black Man Walking->
Along the blood-stained roads of the shadows of death…fearing no evil…
Black Man Walking->
Passing Klu trunks, Klux branches, and bloody leaves of klan lynching trees…
Black Man Walking->
Passing a cracked liberty bell, skewed scales, and raised confederate flags…
Black Man Walking->
Stripped of dignity, pride castrated, and denied the pursuit of happiness…
Black Man Walking->
Tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime of being born black…
Black Man Walking->
Through the grinding gangrene grief of abject bigotry and American racism…
Black Man Walking->
Glad and rejoicing—waking each and every day on the death row of life…
Black Man Walking->
Slapping fascist knees off of his neck and breathing the air of liberation…
Black Man Walking->
With his Black Queen at his side, back, and often out front urging onward…
Black Man Walking->
With warrior spirit…in storms of oppression…soul anchored in the Lord…
Black Man Walking->
Struggling onward…wearing the breastplate of God…anointed with His oil…
Black Man Walking->
Albeit racism’s rejected stone, he’s always God’s cornerstone of humanity…
Black Man Walking->
With Sisyphean-mountain triumph…eyes ever on the promised prize…
Black Man Walking:->
