As we celebrate the election of Barack Obama, we fully recognize political past and present as a whole through displays of political poetry and prose.

Semantics puts the people in trances while dancing around the truth
The acts of broadcasters, forecasters, and bad actors tarnish the surface
All hype and no purpose
Promote more fear and less courage
Tunnel Vision
Even the best name in news screws the facts to fit the quota
The trust is obtained because the alternative screen is either too
Right-
Or Left- winged  
So the balance is chosen
While we have woven the fabric of dysfunction
Chasing dreams already proven deferred
Warnings heard are echoed and lessons get learned through self destruction
Tunnel Vision repeats the same scenes while the Neilson rating rises
The usual suspects are obvious when Black entertainment television is
Misguidance
Leading young minds to deny the power of the mind
Confining them to seeking
Mine
Meaning theirs
Selfish eyes stare at cribs only their imaginations can fill
Tunnel Vision
They tell you the only way to ride is to drive a pimped out ride
when turning lemons to lemonade was the way we made it out alive
They tell you that through diamonds and chains is the only way you’ll shine
When the foundation of America was crafted by enlightened minds
Distort true history for the current wave of Black history
Like this country’s iniquity isn’t rooted deep in misery, secrecy, mystery.

Powers At War

Powers at war over power
Territories once claimed
are suddenly rearranged
by terror and pain
blood and sweat
Tears and the concrete have met
through the conflict the two have become the closest
The ground shall never be the same again.

Lorraine Audubon:Phase I

Echoes of a dream left unfulfilled

When sounds of this magnitude ring no one is healed

This is what it sounds like when time stands still

This is what it looks like when hate turns real

John, Malcolm, Martin, and Bobby in 5 years

where did we go from here?

With inspiration slain and the people drained

times as they knew it would change

Ms. Lorraine Audubon

has affected our hearts with global pain

Our spirit is in question

Amid the depression future revolutionaries are arrested

The unity of the community is tested

Add government drug sales that flooded the streets

Subtract multiple brothers who flooded cells in fleets

The revolution was being quelled

No means necessary would be dispelled

The movement suppressed through solutions of death, division, and Counter Intel

That grandstanding Hoover plan to disarm hands which rebel

Resistance led to sentences

indented into our consciousness

Deception with the perception of truth staining the glass ceiling

of a nation embroiled in looting and raw feelings

Picture the watts when the lights went off

then the lights went off over in Newark

Now the city is charred and filled with the national guard

armed with a curfew to create control of an uncontrollable force

forcing the nation into regression of its thoughts

While the draftees return from the big V

to spend their days chemically imbalanced under V A bed sheets

The balance of power greatly shifted toward the Watergate Right’s hook

At the podium stands a crook

After Johnson’s failed great society attempt the country was the hostage Nixon took

Passed bills from the latter years made it appear

as if progress was imminent through the shadows of fear

Who was to know what was near?

To be continued…

We are from the back of the bus. Forced to get up or end up finding yourself hemmed up by the fuzz. All because your skin tone was different. It wasn’t a thing to hit you and let the K-9’s get you. We’ve seen pictures but will never understand their pain. How it rained, showered, and poured through all of their days but,

They marched the streets about 100 deep at a time. Rifled up, riled up, law books on their sides. They started from nothing. Just a 10 Point plan to stop hunger and get us from under the rock they dropped in the gutter. They made them change the gun laws. Them “n***** done went on and got smart”. We always had the heart to fight but needed a leader to spark that fire we all needed. We found him in Malcolm until his own people hit him. What he left were the little sparks embedded in hearts to start making a change before they tear us apart but,

The revolution is suppressed through a solution of death. Drugs flood into the streets. Now the people are less motivated about change. They are looking to poke veins. Draining their mind frames of the thoughts of change. It’s a shame to see a woman zoned out. Her brain is fried eggs while her baby cries out in pain, in need of a hug. Love seems to leave. Time eats you up alive. We’ve got to believe or we have lost the war. What’s in store for the youth? They are growing not knowing about the past, it’s true that

Rap invades so now they’ve got to hear our pain and hear that voice they thought went silent in shame. It’s no surprise, we always rise. We have built this nation. They don’t want to see these lines, but read this pride. Let’s take that ride to tomorrow. All together. Through the rain. Through the showers. Through all the pressure let it make diamonds. Don’t let it burst your pipes, they like seeing us dying. If I’m lying let me know it. If you’re crying baby hold it. Your tears will dry up, just stay in focus.

96 Tupac went so every year it’s an event. 95 we were on the back of the bus. We took the back of the bus and made it ours, reversing the luck. B’s and C’s are getting made outside of the class. N***** Wit Attitudes all over the land. In 91, Brenda had that baby

and just maybe we might listen and learn, but we grow up crazy. Chromes are aiming. “n” are slanging, chilling and surviving. We are trying to last while chasing a prize because

The Head of State wants to reverse our fate and send us up where the river gives you no escape. I know that war was planned from jump. I just stood in the cut and peeped him out. We have got to come up. They are cutting jobs, trying hard to hold us back. We are not folding. We’re holding protection for that counter attack. Whenever they decide to act Right, I’ll be on the Left side waiting for that night. Now we are winding down with Obama, I see a better tomorrow. He motivates more to follow their own ambitions beyond suspicions and ignorant views. Proving when you utilize your tools nobody can move you. We continue to witness the

FROM 300 PLUS YEARS OF SLAVERY
THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE THAT DIED FOR ACTS OF BRAVERY
NOW WE FINALLY GOT ONE OF OUR OWN
FOR ONCE AMERICA FOR THE MOST PART DOESN'T WANT HIS BRAINS BLOWN
WE ARE ALL WE GOT IN THE STATE OF AMERICA
LADY LIBERTY FINALLY TOOK THE BLINDFOLD OFF TO LOOK AT AMERICA
FORGIVE ME FOR BEING OPTIMISTIC
BUT WE ALL NEED TO BE REALISTIC

AS WE ALL OVERCOME THE STRUGGLE
NOW EVEN THE RICH ARE LEARNING HOW TO JUGGLE
THEIR WANTS COMPARED TO NEEDS
THE GOVERNMENT IS REAPING THE PLANTED SEEDS
OF GREED POLITICIANS,WHO CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE
CAUSE THE PRESIDENT SEES IT ALL AND THEY CAN NO LONGER HIDE
BEHIND A STATE ELECTED POSITION AND A TITLE
HE MADE THAT CLEAR BEFORE HE AFFIRMED ON THE BIBLE

THE RICH START TO PANIC
SINCE THE WORLD THEY KNOW IS STARTING TO SINK LIKE THE TITANIC
LETS KEEP OUR EYES ON THE PRIZE
FOCUS ON THE TRUTH AND DISREGARD THE LIES
LETS RIGHT THE CONSTITUTION
SINCE WE ALL AS AMERICANS MADE A CONTRIBUTION
WE ARE ONE IS THE NEW MISSION
AS WE END WITH THIS

A NEW TRADITION

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