Melanated People

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Black Historians

I wanna know
How many black historians
Died cos they wrote their
Own history books….
How many were they secretly assassinated
Cos they typed truth on every page?
I’m curious now…

Black people
Read a lot, right
Unfortunately
I would say not
All of them read books like
That…most of them
Avoid simple words on
Paper…

Have you heard
Of ignorance is bliss
And not everyone heard
Of well known

Black historians
Who actually studied roots from
The past….
They travel around the world
And learn people who look like us
Who has had experiences
I heard they grab those ugly pieces
Of Europe and how the cavebeasts
Disrespect the moors way after they
Taught them how to bathe, how to do
Math and music

And we never learn
That in school….
Cos if we learn
White supremacy would drop down
Our rise is their panick mode…

This is why they banned books
Apparently white feelings have
To be gentle, have to be cradle
Meanwhile

The system is usually erasin
Our ancestors and mother tongue
They’re too desperate,

And we’re doomed to become
A broken record…every tragedy
Same thing different people
Different day and night

Black historians
Have sacrificed for
The black community to
Learn how great we are
How powerful we are
Sadly most of black people have
Ignored have laughed
Haven’t been taken seriously..

Majority of black people
Don’t know black historians
Have passed away cos
They wrote facts in their books
Hopefully brothas and sistahs
Will pick them up and read…
They did…
I’m sure in Jim Crow
Black books weren’t allowed in
The white bookstore…

I’m only wonderin about
White supremacy is still punishin
Black historians for writin
Essays about melanin
Do they make them sugar coated?
Lie after lie?
Black history
Is damn important
We have to know who we are
What did we do before slavery?
What were our minds like before
Whiteness spread over our nerves?
Before we were damaged?

I thought self education
Was type of healin that we need
As a people…also our intelligence
Is another weapon to fight that
White man’s fork tongue….
We need to stretch our brains
And souls to wash the poison
Away…

I appreciate
Black historians
A lot…they made me
Wake up, they made me think
I wish I could learn my black
History earlier as a teenager
That way i could express my blackness
More into my adulthood….
I wish I knew
John Henrik Clarke
Back in the day
Dr. Ben
Walter Rodney
I wish I knew about
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Neely Fuller Jr.
In the 2000s
But I didn’t…

I didn’t educate myself
On black history
A lot til much later…
I should know about
Black historians
I should have known
The reason why they passed
Cos of their powerful books they published….

Black people have read
The books
Some never had heard of
Them…I think
Knowledge of self
Should recommend
At all times
Especially for the black babies
They need to know
They need to learn their past
And how to love themselves…

They need to know
About
Black historians who
Went to continents
Just to find our souls
And bones
Without
Internet….

💯✊🏿©️Kai C. 6-13-26

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