reparations! what for?!

reparations! what for?!

(for jayne cortez, margie shaheed

and the un world conference on racism*)

for white folk who continuously ask us

‘what for?’

when we say ‘reparations’…

for yr imposing yrself

on the natural order of the world

at the expense of the rest of the world…

for yr creating danger and disorder

as sure as yr unmistakable smell

everywhere u go in the world…

for yr pathetic propensity for destroying

every living thing

u cannot understand and control…

for yr taking egypt out of afrika

into the madness of yr mind…

for yr turning afrika

12 million square miles

of civilization pursuing balance

into 12 million square miles

of dependency disease and dispair…

for yr bombarding the wide nose

of the great sphinx of giza…

for yr being too violently lazy to cultivate

any genuine human relations with anyone…

for yr massacres

for yr institutionalizing massacres…

for the stealth emergence of yr slaveships and slave castles onto the pores of our civilization

like lethally radiated ticks…

for those first black brown and yellow flunkies

u used to snatch us from the interior

for six pieces of silver

may they all go to hell with their masters

the no good bastards…

what for? u ask

with yr bleary eyes arrogantly stuck in the clouds

of white supremecy and white skin privilege…

for yr pushing our ancestors

thru the screaming bleeding hole

of the ‘point of no return’**

by the hundreds of millions

one at a time…

for yr obsession with yr violently inferior penis

plunging into our foremothers

by the hundreds of millions

over and over again

one at a time…

for the atlantic oceans sharks

getting so unnaturally fat and full

offa our ancestors flesh

even they wondered if u r outta yr white mind…

for yr whipping dozens

of our beautiful afrikan languages

offa the skins of our tongues…

for mass graves being yr 1^st answer to landfills…

for yr making the mississippi and ohio rivers

bleed thick with our blood

like u made the atlantic bleed thick

and the niger river bleed thick

and the gambia river bleed thick

and the senegal river bleed thick

with our ancestors blood…

for yr using the bulging navels

of the swollen and pregnant wombs

of captive black women

for bullseyes for yr swords yr machetes

and for yr slavehunting dogs…

for yr forcing black men to face death

with their genitals in their mouth

in yr dirty south…

for the genocidal sins

of yr seminaries, yr militaries and yr mercenaries…

for yr black codes…

for yr plymouth rock landing on us

like bayonets in our mouths…

for all of our missing ‘native sons’…

for our beheaded ‘stolen legacy’ on display

decapitated in yr mothball smelling museums…

for yr inventing and miseducating the negro…

for yr persistent obsession

with ‘the destruction of black civilization’…

for yr shooting our new freedom thru the head

with the hayes-tilden compromise

a deal lincoln cdnt have crafted better himself…

for yr turning our ankhs into crosses

and lynching us on them

or burning them on our front lawns…

for yr torching in black blood and fire

black prosperity u segregated

in places like rosewood and t-town…

for yr chain gangs…

for the return of yr chain gangs…

for the electric chair…

for yr lethal injections

now killing us softly

like dogs…

for yr burning down our churches

and yr gov’t saying we did it ourselves…

for yr emaciating affirmative action…

for yr reducing habeas corpus to toilet paper

to wipe yr nasty flat asses with…

for yr racist return to states rights

on the death penalty

with democrats like bill clinton leading the charge…

for yr coup’d’etats and assassinations…

for yr massive sponsoring and subsidizing

of black bloodletters

like mobutu and savimbi…

for yr framing jailing and deporting marcus garvey

and chaining paul robeson to his passport…

for x’ing out malcolm

and yr bullet in martin’s peaceloving gentle face…

for cointelpro locking down our freedom fighters

longer than apartheid locked down nelson mandela…

for the cia dropping heroin cocaine and crack

on our streets

a generation at a time…

for yr stars and stripes

yr crossbows and stars

both

impaled

on our eyes…

for yr violating us all up our voting rts

for the obscenity of tomass clarence

on the high kourt as if he represents our best…

for u and yr racist children

who see no racist evil

hear no racist evil

and only recently learned to speak no racist evil

and who are mad about that…

for the bloodsucking bankers and realtors among u

who continue to redline us into cesspools

of poverty and despair…

for the industrialists among u

dumping toxins on us like the cia

dumps drugs on us…

for yr law enforcers

enforcing and reinforcing white supremecy everyday

hunting us like wild game

and caging us like wild animals…

for yr public educators

bleaching our children’s eyes of their dreams in color

arresting their development

preparing them not to participate in democracy

but to be sacrificed on the altar of capitalism’s

bloodsucking bonelittering bottom fucking line…

for yr judges, jurors and prosecutors

who true to yr pseudo morality

see no racist evil

hear no racist evil

and speak no racist evil…

for yr packing penitentiaries

with the flesh of our immediate future…

for yr war on drugs’ segregated sentencing policy…

for so many of our people

who have to live with a fear

day after day night after night

week after week month after month

year after year after year after year

u cant begin to know anything about…

what for? reparations, u ask?

with yr incredulous racist and selfish selves

to save the clouds of father sky

and the sweet soil of mother earth

from u and the likes of u

what for? u still asking

well

put it like this

either u take yr arrogant ass outta the clouds

and smell the smoking fuse

in the house of yr new world order

or it burns down…

*The UN World Conf. Against Racism, held in 2001 in South Africa, decreed that the TransAtlantic Slave Trade was in deed a crime against humanity, and as such, it has no statute of limitations in holding those culpable accountable…This momentous decree gave the struggle for reparations an enormous boost…

**the point of no return…that point where captive afrikans where pushed out of the dungeons of slavecastles on the west coast of Afrika and into the hulls of the ships that would take them away from afrika forever…

‘bro. zayid’ kazi angaza kikongo muhammad

’Bro. Zayid’ Kazi Angaza Kikongo Muhammad

01/31/04