Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Critical Race Theory

Many American schools have banned or tried to, the teaching
of  the Critical Race Theory to their students.

 

Let's talk Critical Race Theory

Let's blow off some steam

Offload this hypothetical bullshittery

See if we can be a team.

Let's measure the distance from white

To the color called black

Make it plain like the white

Running down the middle of the track.

Why did they build bridges

That fly over black communities,

To connect illustrious neighborhoods

And expect us to see good in the hood

When the system don't feel the heat

Cause they put the claptrap on repeat.

All the major highways

Seem to keep running a-ways

From quarters of the black race.

How does a system

Raised on white superiority

Complex deliver on the long-term

On issues of racial equality?

We perish

Cause the things we cherish

Take us thru college

But fall short of the supply

Of the appropriate knowledge

To make us all see eye to eye.

Let's talk racism

And all negativism

That keep blacks from the

Rise to the top of the food chain

Let's talk about Juneteenth

And the point of the new holiday,

If the history it celebrates

Does nothing to exonerate

The folks it emancipates.

My point is we need new laws

Rising from knowledge of

Equality of all racial colors

We y'all need to understand

The basis of the Critical Race Theory

Or we'd be shooting blanks

If we ain't armed as a blue ribbon jury.


Akpan


Friday, June 18, 2021

Juneteenth '21

Juneteenth commemorates emancipation of African-American slaves on June 19, 1865
Today, President Biden signed a bill declaring it a US National Holiday.


There's a brand new holiday

A prophetic hallelujah day,

Cause ain't nobody dig freedom

Like a man who's been a slave

Ain't nobody crave a destination

Like the man on the inside of a cage,

So as we descend the mountaintop

On the Canaan side

The Promised Land awaits us,

With the tears in our eyes

And with open arms we receive

The Glory of the coming

Of the Lord,

Cause we've been free

And we've been crushed,

But nothing can compare

To this beauty revealed in us.

The mountains are laid bare

And the dreams of our fathers,

The hopes of our mothers

Fill up the valleys of despair

Now on June 19th of every year

We mark a holiday for freedom.

Juneteenth is the new word

A worthy trade for emancipation

Of the people of color

And everybody who loves freedom.


Akpan


Thursday, May 27, 2021

Covid Origins

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID.
The timing of staff illnesses at the Wuhan lab has raised
questions about whether COVID-19 originated and evolved
in a natural environment, or at the Chinese facility.
Photo Courtesy: Getty Images


From a virology lab

In the province of Wuhan,

Site of unprecedented drama

And conspiracies, like sun

Rising in the ancient East,

Initiating the feast of blood

In the jaws of the beast,

A life-devastating virus

Of controversial origins

Cuts down the sons of men

To the tune of 3 million deaths

And we're still on it.

Still trying to contain it.

The WHO turned the lab

In Wuhan upside down

And still couldn't put a tab

On what went down.

Dr. Fauci now

Pointing to natural causes

Circular argument down-

Sizing it to artificial sources

Yet all the while

People of all nationalities die.

We perish,

Cause we lack knowledge

Hassled like Joe Pesci

On a Christmas Eve college,

Given a runaround

On our own side of town,

By the novel coronavirus

Known as SARS-CoV-2.

The origin still defies us

Infecting, via the CDC, up to

10,000 vaccinated folks too.

The race for a cure is going south

Who the hell let this thingk out?


Akpan


Monday, April 26, 2021

Blood Is Thicker Than Slugs

Photo Courtesy: @TeaPainUSA (Twitter)
 

From general purpose machine guns

To children's toy guns,

That got a blackman shot

To Kingdom come

Inside a store at the toy section

Where it was placed

On open display.

Cause someone saw

Him and called the cops,

Who called the shots,

Who made him bite the dust,

It's all menace to society

Bringing a lot mo' harm

Than prompting charity.

It's time for gun laws to disarm.

Guns have since changed,

Why make gun laws stay same?

How many folks carrying

Have prevented a mass shooting?

How many more ain't gun-carrying,

Ever initiated a mass shooting?

Duplicated genocide

Is on a steady rise

Cause assault rifles

Are as commonplace as trifles.

“It's not the gun,

It's the mindset of the bum.”

So then defuse the bomb

Restrict the bum

From getting access to guns.

Guns don't shoot themselves

But folks put 'em on shelves

And showcase the shells,

That's how the thing sells.

Senseless laws bring slugs

Slugs spill blood.

And a gun is no

Respecter of persons.

So act like you know

And count your blessings

If you's alive

To witness another sunrise.

Now, move your butt. Arise!

Let's end the violent reprise.


Akpan


Thursday, March 11, 2021

14 Goin' On Dead

George Stinney, was only 14 when he was sentenced to death
by electrocution for a crime he did not commit. In 1944, he was
accused of killing two white girls. Cops said he confessed
to the crime, there were no witnesses, no evidence,
no written confession signed by George himself.
In 2014, a judge exonerated him posthumously. 


If I was fourteen

And not marked for death,  I'll be destined

To hold in my palm, the whim

To achieve greater works than these.

If I was fourteen,

I'll live free,

I'll have a dream like Dr. King

And Be A King.

I'll live for justice

Like Gorman than be at just ease.

If I was fourteen

I'll be a real OG,

Original, genius cause I was born to breathe.

I'll chair over the electric

Boogie, woogie, get you apoplectic.

If I was fourteen

And won a scholarship,

I'll go real hard on hardship

And be the cap'n of my ship.

If I was fourteen,

I'll be on the dream team

Black and educated with skills

The most dangerous weapon indeed.

If I was fourteen

I'll bring injustice to its knees

I'll knock the love of power till it keens

And rock the power of love so it keels

Over and shatters every hate that kills.

But y'all can't be fourteen

Not if the law wants you dead

Cause your butt ain't whitened.

'Nough said.


Akpan


Thursday, January 16, 2020

Ode To Soul Man


R.I.P Rocky Johnson (King of the Dropkick)

Say it ain't Soul Man
Cause he was a tru Soulja
I seen him wrestle The Hammer
Death couldn't beat Soul Man.

Akpan


Friday, June 28, 2019

She Loved To Dance



Vali loved to dance

Could she have your hands?
Of course, she knows classical
Sweet Mexican baroque guitar
Vali is from Salvador
Her momma’s Tania Avalos
Vali got her pets stuffed
Then she made a pit stop.
Vali had a father
A stalwart who was Oscar
They made to swim a river
And get across the border
Vali hit the bank
Of the Rio Grande
She was with her father
And she won’t be back.

Akpan


Thursday, June 27, 2019

Pale Irretrievables

Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his
nearly 2-year-old daughter, Valeria 
who drowned trying to cross
the Rio Grande river in Mexico to Brownsville, Texas, USA.
Courtesy: The Washington Post



Could you please hold that line?
Before you rock your shine
Come let me take you right
Down to a friend of mine

She’s down by the Rio Grande
Tucked in the death damp
T-shirt of the young man
This tragic beauty once called ‘Dad’

Dead
Did I tell you she died?
The river took her head
And banged it against its spine
Again! Again! Again!
Again! Again! Again!
             Again!

Until locked in that final embrace…
Even so she held her grace

Maybe she yelled his name
As the current slapped her face
And choked her
Until all she did was whisper

Down by the Rio Grande
Lay Valeria
Marooned on the banks among the reeds
Tucked into the t-shirt of a man
Named after the famed award for movies

Down by the Rio Grande
Is a picture less than grand.

Akpan




Monday, September 21, 2015

WWNF

WWNF is ab for We Will Never Forget. If the on-going negotiations with
the Boko Haram terrorists means the Nigerian Govt. is just gonna let them
walk after all the deaths and sorrow they brought on school kids...
Justice is indeed blind.

Wanta negotiate but forgot the children you torched
I betcha talkin’ ‘bout how ta regain yo freedom,
I betcha forgot the scores of times you played God,
Tossing bombs and pumping slugs all up the north;
Wasting gobs of young dreams in the name of religion,
Now you feel ya’ll just gon’ turn around and spill yo
Guts and make demands? But justice is a loaded gun
On a hair trigger and its cartridge is full of lethal slugs.
The lives you destroyed rise to judge you n’ yo cohorts.
A million wasted dreams signed your eternal damnation.
The only pardon you truly deserve is hell’s own option.
Ya’ll aint gatto make demands why don’t you just pop off.

We will never forget how they died the death of a dog.
We will never forget the fatal aftermath of Postikum.
We will never forget that the earth sucked up their blood
Because you strewn their cadavers in the streets to rot.
We will never forget the camp where ya’ll tripped a bomb,
Because even when they was displaced it wasn’t enough
Until they was wasted and their names wiped off this world;
We will never forget the abductions and forced wedlock.
We will never forget the unborn burnt alive in the womb
Because you fools weren’t man enough to restrain your lust.
We will never forget the schools turned factory for bombs
We will never forgive nor forget until justice has run its course.

You will get what you so richly deserve.
Hear me Boko Haram: judgment is served.

Akpan



Friday, September 11, 2015

Ground Zero

Courtesy: Twitter: @Patricia_Braun

I live in a time when this moment is a memory,
Where all of life enfolds you in the warmth of family
And your dreams lead you by the hand into euphory.

I live in a time where my hope is your reality;
When from within your walls busts a chorus of rejoicing,
And peals of laughter rip your kids’ throats continually.

I live in a time when every sunrise declares your peace;
When the tips of your towers slice the clouds rising still,
And nations marvel at the bounty of your beauteous bliss.

Akpan



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