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White Nationalism Put U In Bondage
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Just by the title with the "U" places in the "hip hop" generation category that her contemporaries can relate to--immediately making the connection. Reasoning behind using "nationalism" rather than "supremacy" is interesting. I would need more investigation on this poet and other poetry she has written. But I suspect that she used "nationalism" rather than "supremacy" because she want to "minimize the power" or it could be the reverse...
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White nationalism is what put you in bondage
Pirate and vampires like Columbus, Morgan, and Darwin
Drank the blood of the sheep, trampled all over them with
Steel, tricks and deceit.
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The fact that we as a "nation" now are witnessing a harnessing of "bondage" against certain groups of people for whatever we fathom their crimes to be does not make it proper or right. I think what she is relaying to folks is that currently, we ourselves are in "bondage" just like in the movie,
The Matrix. It casts that imagery to me. The use of
pirates and vampires immediately calls up to mind all these TV shows and movies that are popular. These kids like that stuff and more folks are surgically modifying themselves or clothing themselves to look like these fictitious characters. Then this little girl takes
Columbus, Morgan and Darwin the pinnacle of discovery both scientific and explorative, just like an "alien character would be capable of doing" to "drink blook of animals", connoting a weird cannabalistic ritual then cover it up into a tomb of "steel", then lie about with "tricks" and "deceit". How is this different from what our government is doing today? Where was Saddam found again??? Or steel could be a manifestation of the TV box, to sell an idea like on an infomercial that is inherently deceitful...
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Nothing has changed take a look in our streets
The mis-education of she and Hegro — leaves you on your knee2grow
Black lands taken from your hands, by vampires with no remorse
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She states nothing has changed because our streets are still ravaged by violence because we have been miseducated--like in Carter G. Woodson's "Miseducation of the Negro". She uses "Hegro", because she is playing into folks "stereotype" that all black men are for are to play basketball or football and they've got to be big, just like a Big John or ox, but all that leaves us in on our knees. The reason why she uses the "2" rather than the "to" and makes it one word--"knees2grow"--that may be out of this "mire" of a muddied sinkhole we are in, we can grow out of our knees. And without remorse, we had lands in Africa--freely given away, just like a vampire who can freely take it...
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They took the gold, the wisdom and all of the storytellers
They took the black women, with the black man weak
Made to watch as they changed the paradigm
Of our village
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The biggest part of the natural resources of Africa was the gold and information was passed by the griot or storytellers who were wisemen and women. The women were taken along with the men. The "weak" because they could not protect the women and they watched how a black man maintains a black family--an Afrikan-Centered Family to something more europeanized.
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They killed the blind, they killed the lazy, they went
So far as to kill the unborn baby
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Amazing is all I got to say... Like whoa
... Hits the nail on the head...
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Yeah White nationalism is what put you in bondage
Pirates and vampires like Columbus, Morgan, and Darwin
They drank the blood of the sheep, trampled all over them with
Steel laden feet, throw in the tricks alcohol and deceit.
Nothing has changed take a look at our streets.
Written By Autumn Ashante'
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From the start of our involvement with America those of Afrikan Diasporic Experience that have accepted know this information. Most of our children seem like they do not if you watch the rap music. But this young lady give me hope that some of them still do know about it and points it out by simply saying, "take a look at our streets..."
She references so much to her generation. It is amazing to me the imagery she uses to make that connection. I am just blown away by the intelligensia of her... Maybe she has that "old soul" connection--called utammaroho... The Universe does not forget, it responds... The day of reckoning will be upon us...