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