Cleopatra

Cleopatra
Are you a Greek?
Are you an African?
Sometimes dna can’t be accurate
Maybe it’s right….

The only reason
Why we say
You’re African
Cos we thought
You look like us
Maybe you’re mix….

Yet
Your dna says otherwise…

We get used to the
Whitewashin
Whitewaterin
Our history to its core….

Even Egypt is deeply
Whitewashed….
So ya it’s confusin….
I know for a fact that
Egyptians were black
Before the Greeks and Arabs
Came around…
Before mix racin
Before rapin
Before white supremacy whiten up
Egypt is real black…..

We call it Kemet…,
Way before the pale faces
They should know
But oh
They painted our bodies on the
Wall white
They blew our noses up
Look at sphinx….

To be honest
It’s possible that
White supremacy is playin with
Our minds in the name of cleopatra
That’s you
Again maybe the dna might
Not be accurate
It’s just gettin us to be quiet
Cos you know how programmin works
To make us think white people
Are Egyptians for a long time….
It’s possible
Or maybe I want Cleopatra to be black
Cos I don’t like white lies
From the colonizers who think they’re
Intelligent which they ain’t…
They’re super envious….

I can understand
The frustration
Of my race when
Our history is continuin
To be more whiter
Then decades down the line

People who painted our past
White came to tell the truth
And give a fake ass apology
Made a statue or piece of somethin
To honor our achievements
Like fools we forgive
We smile
We make speeches
And we shall overcome

Like what?

After all that, we still get no reparations…

Cleopatra
You may not understand
How black people feel…
Never understand
Our black race’s frustration
And you know
We’ve been programmed
And still reprogrammed
To think

White people
Are gods
And we have no history….
Which isn’t true
At all,

White people came from the Caucas Mountains
From the caves
I think it’s very cold up there and lot of ice…
Perhaps….
And the moors took them out
And they have many diseases
And were funky…
Moors taught them everythin…

And honestly
That was a big mistake….

Cleopatra
I wanna know
If you’re a Greek
Or a Kemet?
Again
It’s possible that
White supremacy is playin
With black people’s minds…
You just never know….

✊🏿💯 ©️ Kai C. 5-14-23


Yesterday I overheard the conversation about cleopatra and people got so angry that cleopatra portrayed as a black woman. She was from Greece. Here’s the thing, black history has been whitewashed all the time and it’s been mostly erased. Egypt is in Africa. Egyptians were and still are black. There’s no such thing as blackwashing. We always thought cleopatra was black. And you know you gotta think about the system might be changing our stories over and over just to confuse black people. You might say stop blaming white supremacy for everything. I’m using my critical thinking skills
To understand the situation. It’s my opinion. It’s my observation towards the discussion I witnessed yesterday. I do think white supremacy keeps fucking up our stories. Cleopatra could be a part of it.
I don’t know. I would like to assume..different scholars and writers who don’t look like us continue to write and rewrite our own past. It’s why i write a poem saying maybe the dna can be inaccurate. I thought about programming engineering. The kind where they programmed human minds. I thought about that, too. Cleopatra