Juneteenth Day
By AW
No need to tell me
that I am free
As still I sit here
In these chains
behind bars
And still barred
From the liberty
They claimed to
Give to me and mine
For free back there
In 1865 or was it ‘63
Games played then still
Being played now
No need to tell me
that we’s free
As still that strange
Peculiar institution of
Enslavement, though
transformed, still
holds me
Chained to
that archaic
Beast called
Slavery.
I ain’t free
We ain’t free
Today on
These 21st
Century
Cotton
Plantations
On Facebook
In the NBA,
On Juneteenth Day,
And still:
The Black human being
Has no rights that
The white man is
Bound to respect,
On Juneteenth!
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