WHY YOU WANNA BE LIKE WHITE PEOPLE???
To hear the SEven Foot Poet ask the question himself, click the flash player below
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Pride --- We can swim just like white people
Glory Road --- We can play basketball just like white people
Remember the Titians --- We can play football just like white people
Fresh --- We can play chess just like white people
Take the Lead --- We can ballroom dance just like white people.But why you wanna be like white people?
The Great Debaters --- We can argue just like white people
Akilah and the Bee --- We can spell just like white people
Freedom Writers --- We can write just like white people
How High --- We can smoke weed just like white people
Set It Off --- We can rob banks just like white people
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner --- We can marry white women just like white people
Menace II Society --- We can kill black people just like white people.
Why you wanna be like white people?
Holy Man --- We can be a new-age guru just like white people
Meteor Man --- We can be a super hero just like white people
Training Day --- We can be crooked cops just like white people
American Gangster --- We can be criminals just like white people
Juice --- We can be killers just like white people
New Jack City --- We can be drug dealers just like white people
Hustle and Flow --- We can be pimps just like white people
Hoodlum --- We can be gangsters just like white people
The Crying Game --- We can be gay transvestites just like white people
Six Degrees of Separation --- We can be con artists just like white people
What’s Love Got To Do With It
We can be domestic abusers just like white people.
But why you wanna be like white people?
T.D. Jakes --- We can be pimps just like white people
R. Kelly --- We can be pedophiles just like white people
Robin Quivers --- We can prostitute ourselves just like white people
Michael Jackson --- We can hate our natural appearance just like white people
Bill Cosby --- We can blame Black people for societies ills just like white people
Colin Powell --- We can lead the U.S. Army in attacks that kill black people ---just like white people
Barack Obama --- We can be President . . . .
Why you wanna be like white people?
By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)
Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)
Copyright 2008.
Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com.
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