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Title: Last Revolutionary: Part One Post by: Ras Rebel on August 15, 2008, 02:37:12 PM Last Revolutionary: Part One
By Ras Rebel. Sometimes it appears, I’m the only one of my peers holding it down on this revolution’s frontier. I fight to hold back the drop of a single tear Thinking back on the years of sacrifice And countless sleepless nights of Malcolm’s and Martin’s wife’s. The bloody scenes of that New York ballroom, the balcony in Tennessee And the driveway in Mississippi. Whatever happened to our collective sense? When did our concerns stop at our neighbor’s fence? Standing on corners selling our brothers back into slavery For a few dollars and cents. DuBois’s talented tenth, I regret to mention Disowning their own For the company pension Wake up and pay attention Brothers and sisters listen To these words that I’m spittin I’m running out of breath Feels like I’m talking to the deaf We chase material accumulation And career elevation But neglect to address our lack of education And extremely high incarceration Our brainwashed mentality Has lead to our crippling mortality We’re on the pathway of becoming a non-people Dis-unified and feeble Feeding into the manipulator’s fable Kane is still killing Able Still unable to realize We are pawns in our own demise Working towards assimilation Instead of a unified Black Nation Crabs in a barrel The children of Israel Still enslaved by Pharaoh Enslaved by dinero Choosing the wide road Afraid of the narrow. |