dear black

Lend me your time i want to talk to you Briefly sacrifice your valuable hours And miss the bold and the days just this day Rest from the shower and baby oil powder Dear black I want to talk to you You have taken a trip Running through this African soil strip In awe of foreign thoughts Its vices and flaws Your behaviour has changed Since you took that journey To the gravy of the west Which you have pontificated as best Dear Black let me talk to you Your worship of a true God Has been replaced by gossip With this blue – eyed brood Your mind is absent It has eloped with that twang accent Dear black Please come back Return from the fantasy of elitist ecstacy, The complacency that betrays your decency, Your excellence Its for different folks different strokes But you have become a subject of their jokes These folks that returned the colonized land But kept your mind tied still in colonial bands Dear black – come back Your black mind was whitewashed, Corrupted by the coca-cola brainwash; Will you scrub the vanity that has been sold to you as better than the values of your antecedents the community of the black family sacrificed for the selfish, individualistic, egotistical, narcissistic mentality dear black, you are black undo the damage inflicted by the image of a blue eyed, sharp nosed, twang spitting characters on the evil box – the ultimate deception take pride in the features that distinguish you from the rest reject the Michael Jackson inspired hypocrisy connie masilo – matsunyane turned connie ferguson with a plastic nose to match the sedition dear black, come back refuse to be used as a face of a white managed but black owned corporation for the purposes of BEE accreditation Karabo Printers – the CEO is van der Walt A fraud of highest proportions An ethics and politics commotion Prostitution in the board room Black skin for sale – for shares – for sure Dear Black , Biko was right "are you tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that you should be playing. Don’t you want to do things for yourself and all by yourself?" "Black man, you are on your own." Dear Black, Malcolm X was right The price of freedom is death. Respect me, or put me to death. All of us are black first, and everything else second. Rise from the ashes of the contemporary and temporary Cleanse yourself from the insignificance and the decadence Black, rise again in pride of your heritage The visionary Affonso – King of the Kongo Khenathon – the first recorded believer in ONE GOD The detail and efficiency of King Askia Toure - of Songhay Hannibal the military strategist King – Imhotep architecht, astronomer, poet, physician Khama – King of Batswana – zero tolerance to crime Mansa Kanka Musssa of Mali Morena Moshoeshoe – diplomat, solidifier at Thaba Bosiu The Military Innovator – Shaka Zulu – wena wendlovu – Bayete Black, rise again in pride of your heritage I want you BLACK again BACK again …. As mother ululate Children celebrate A message of warning to the colonial masters Still residing in my land