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Title: Human Race - Part II
Post by: natural blacks on December 05, 2006, 01:59:19 PM
*track & field gun fires*

bloodclaat!!!! gunshot!!!
... whaddat?!
" 'race' start" ... but shudd i tek part?
oromo, akan, yoruba...
a dat ini know bout.
but, "black", "white", "chiney" ?
a how dem deh sitten come bout?
den a suh my consciousness spread thin?
fi i think a man different tru di colour a him skin.
my nose 'broad', urs elongate,
pot a cus kekkle? a wha dis... but wait...
when a one sun a sky,
2 eye inna farrid, an a same tears a cry.
a who tell dem i waan inna competition?
love Life and live, a dat a ini mission.
segregation only bring frustration,
and classification by colour a mad situation.
a who a di organizer fi dis event?
dis uneven CONTEST need some addressment.


WordSoundIsPower

What Life Has Taught Me:

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

- EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I

Africa needs and desires and welcomes the help of others, both physical and moral, but Africa must nevertheless be left to develop herself, her people, her resources, as Africans determine. Leave to us, freely and without qualm, the choice between good and evil, between injustice and justice, between oppression and liberty. Our choice will be the right one, and History will judge us, and you, the better for it. - EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I