Why Don’t American Black Folks Share?

A poem about brain washing…
Why don’t American black folks share?
it’s a mystery for sure…
especially when you contemplate
what black people endure

Why don’t American black folks share,
their knowledge and their wealth,..
with other blacks in distant lands,
that starve to death
by the thousands everyday,..
begging for mere substance and health.

Marcus Garvey tried and failed,..
he was ridiculed and jailed,..
Malcolm X, he tried it too,..
and he was killed because he knew
Pan-africa was a dream come true

Why don’t American black folks share?
cause they’ve been programmed not to care,..
rich white men own all that they see,..
and they will never set black people free.

© Copyright Stop & Think Poetry
   By Steven Taylor
Published: 5/23/2007
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