BlackCommentator.com - August 28, 2008


August 28, 2008 - Issue 288


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Look How Long Poetic Black Fusion By Poet Blackman Preach BC Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)




Click here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem. LOOK HOW LONG Look how long look how long Black man the struggle still goes on. HISTORICALLY we’ve come around the block more than a household visiting friend they may try to kill us they may they may try to deny us they may even say there is no end I will tell you there’s an end... there is a end. Look how long look how long Black woman the crowned jeweled Queen the mother of all roots how can they deny you who gave *BIRTH* to them all a Black beauty see I can’t resist telling you every day of your existence... Look how long look how long church that we’ve denied Christ has God denied you? NO Jehovah has been there all the time on time tho’ you have questioned Yahweh in Malcolm & Betty circumstances he has managed to do you good—tho’ you have no clue no idea how he has blessed you to see another day another day… Look how long look how long LOOK! How much longer is it going to take us to get this thing right? the human beings that we have been called to be that we have the audacity of screwing it up not even fighting for what we believe in but rather fight each other fight each other check the record of time look how long...
The preceeding poem is included in Blackman Preach's self published chapbook titled, "The State of the Ghetto Address." Click here to listen to Blackman Preach read this poem. BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic Black Fusion, a writers' workshop that provides access and opportunities to poets of African Ancestry living in Central New York. He is also the co-founder of Voices Merging, a student-run poetry organization (spoken word) at the University of Minnesota that provides a social outlet for undergraduate students to develop as writers, network and express themselves on stage. He has been writing poetry for 14 years and is published in the Ethnic Student Center's Newsletter at Western Washington University, The Spokesman Recorder, and St. Cloud Times. Click here to contact Blackman Preach.

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