Not professing complete and total innocence
but
you shall no longer be allowed to feign ignorance
as
a son watches his father, absorbing mannerisms and ideologies
a people
systematically invaded
did submit psychologically
after
centuries of manifest destiny, claiming land, ancestors and spirituality
is there no wonder
life regurgitates the tragedy and a people are schizophrenic within their own duality?
Holding fast to customs and traditions of those before
while at the same time, re-enacting the sins of those of whom they claim to deplore
The desire to rule once again seeps through their pores
and the only way to do so is to utilize the
questionable methods of those who once skulked along their pristine shores
unknown but yet, welcomed
now gaze upon the visage of inheritance
rape, pillage, war, apathy, starvation and pestilence
One cannot decry the crimes of the Hutu , Tutsis and Congolese
without first holding up a mirror and re-examining internally
The so-called most powerful country in the world
grew to fame and fortune on the backs of others
using Willie Lynch methods to methodically
rape our men and our mothers
And now we can also lay claim to our part in the shameful truth
when they glorify the word "Nigger" just the same as we do,
further burying six feet below the dry homeland dust
our original African Names which no longer belong to us