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anti/nigga/o/logy

There's still a chain,  that remains  
So many blacks have no desire to break-
With this treacherous word that I love to hate..  
Pounding chests proud, to use and defend  
the slave owners label, where your skin is your sin
The word "nigger" cast as your fate..  
A word meant to degrade and berate-but wait
I hear it makes a difference how you spell it.. Let's see drop the "er", add a, ah,  az..  
How about, stop trying to pretty it up,  
and eradicate it like a fuckin disease...  
'Cause it sure spread like one...  
Passing the shit down..  
Mother to daughter, father to son...  
Clinging to a word that encourages you to under reach,  when it was all set for you to overcome.  
Malcolm, Medgar, Martin, Countless women in that struggle, would literally weep...  
 
Knowing that with all the vocabulary words out there this is the one--
This is the one,  you choose to keep  
THEIR STRUGGLE was REAL, and unfortunately some of it still exists..  
In the civil rights era, they called each other sister, brother... So, how did THAT--evolve into THIS?  
For those who see no problem with it, YOU are to blame -instead of freeing yourselves -
You hold in place a binding chain..  
Slaves could NEVER have looked to you for freedom -your Underground Railroad woulda' been the- "nigga train"
 
Start naming your kids that,  I mean, you call them that anyway...  
I can just here the school roll call, "Niggah Williams",  "Nigguh Jones"-sit in the back of EVERYTHING, where it was meant for niggas to stay..  
You have a lot of nerve if you yell "Black Lives Matter" -yet,  it's the nigga you continuously call out
White cop shoots unarmed black man, he sees it like you, hell, one less nigga he has to worry about...  
Name a powerful black Pharaoh, King or Queen ..anytime before America, any circa date- I know it may take you a few seconds-don't worry-I'll wait.  
See,  those are the titles we were robbed of..  
Nigga means you're less than nothing, to be beaten and killed,  bought and sold, raped and drugged... just like the niggaz you are, straight from massa
with love
Nubian king Taharka on his swift chariot on the front lines of the battlefields of Jerusalem was a true site to behold...  
So was Falasha warrior Queen Judith who conquered the Christian dynasty of Axum, seized the throne, and yet these factual stories of powerful blackness seem to largely go untold
 
Learn of more great African and ancient Egyptian dynasties where we ruled in honor and in might..  
All racists claim your just a nigger, and that's all you'll ever be...  
And when you insist on using a derivative of their hate..  
You bow to your "superior" white, saying yessir massa-sir..  you're RIGHT
Written by SPIRIT (SPIRIT_X the RAW writer)
Published | Edited 5th Sep 2021
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