Our Plight

Our Plight

We were taken from our ancestry

forced into existence of slavery

only to eventually

hang from trees.

And never to know

our real families history.

For us America is a disenfranchised society

that lacks love in the form of humanity.

So we exist caught up insanity

if we are proud then its seen as vanity.

Yet no one wants to admit to these sins

and for the color of our skin

we are still condemned.

Waiting to be free

to really embrace racial equality.

But until then

we will always be judged

by the color of our skin.

Visualizing the horrific images embedded into our brains

our peoples plight is nothing but a long journey of pain.

An example of us always hanging from a tree

being still taught today that our ancestry starts with us being slavery.

The Mis Education

The Mis Education

They teach us that we rode slave ships

and beat us with whips.

So some teachers said we would be nothing but drug dealers and pimps.

They had many of us thinking to be black was a curse

and that we had it the worst,

yet we became doctors and nurses.

In America our black history

goes no further than slavery.

We never learn about the A shate Kings

Or Hannibal Braca.

So we become shame of our past

although we know freedom must come at last.

Yet we are not taught that we came from glory

and we are purposely overlooked when it comes to the story of history.

Although we helped make this nation what it is

so they give us one month of the year

to hear

some of the things we that we have done.

We have been around as long

as the copper sun.

Yet we are not taught the proper knowledge

although we attend college.

It is time we learn

so the tables can turn

and we can feel better about our past

while persevering our freedom through history so it can last.

The Mis Eudacation.

One Who Died For Our Rights

One Who Died For Our Rights

When it comes to the progress of the civil rights movement, many people died for the un- going cause for equal rights.   Many died for a change to come as they self-sacrificed themselves so others could have a better way of life to live.  Yet many of those brave people never received fame, credit, or mention for what they died for.  There are so many of those who died for cause of racial equality but there is one brave man to not only mention but honor.  His name was Mr. Medgar Evers. 

            Medgar Wiley Evers was born July 1925.  He was born in town of Decatur Mississippi, as a young man Evers served his country honorably in World War II.  After Evers military service he graduated from college.  He attained a degree in business administration in 1952 from Alcorn State University.  For Evers education was always important even as a young boy Evers would walk twelve miles to school to and from everyday just attain his high school diploma. It was at Alcorn State University, that Evers would meet his wife Myrlie and they would go on to have three children.

After Evers graduated from college he and his wife Myrlie then moved to a town called Mound Bayou Mississippi.  It was in the town of Mound Bayou that Evers started working for Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company.  The life insurance company was owned by T.R.M Howard who also was a civil rights activist.  Together Evers and Howard began to start and organize boycotts of gas stations that would let African Americans use their bathrooms.  Evers and Howard’s efforts would continue to grow as they organized and protested.  Their organization was called the Regional Council of Negro Leadership.  This organization was also known as the R.C.N.L.  As they fought for the cause for racial equality their organization drew crowds of ten thousand or more in the years of 1952 through 1954.  Evers also played an enormous part in the desegregation of Mississippi’s Gulf coast beaches.  These organized series of protest became known as the Biloxi Wade Ins.  It was Evers who joined forces with Dr. Gilbert Mason Sr. to put together a plan of action to stop the discrimination of blacks from being able to occupy the beaches of Mississippi’s gulf coast.

            By late 1954, Megar Evers became Mississippi’s first field secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. Evers job was to start other local chapters of the N.A.A.C.P. in Mississippi and also to continue to organize protest to continue the fight for equal rights for African Americans.  With Evers new position as field secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. he would use his leverage to help support James Meredith.  James Meredith with the help of Evers became the first African American to not only attend Ole Miss but to also graduate.  As Evers made steady progress for the fight for the civil rights for African Americans in state of Mississippi, he was a man who was very brave and looked death in eye.  There were many death treats targeted at Evers and multiple attempts at taking his life still Evers would continue his calling.  In which was to be a man who died for others so they could have a life of freedom that Evers himself never knew.

            On the morning of June 12 1963, Medgar Evers was gun down in his own drive way.  He had just finished a meeting with N.A.A.C.P. lawyers and was holding t-shirts that said “Jim Crow must go”.  Evers was killed by a man named Byron De La Beckwith who was a known member of the White Citizens’ Council that later be called the Ku Klux Klan.  De La Beckwith was arrested for the murder of Evers but was not found guilty until a third trial 30 years later found him guilty.  Byron De La Beckwith would later die in prison for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. De La Beckwith tried to appeal the verdict but was unsuccessful and died at the age of 80 while still incarnated.

            Medgar Evers, will go down in history as man unafraid of death.  He lived for cause and died for cause.  Its Evers brave civil rights work that helped so many people gain liberties that Evers never had himself.  He gave his life for the struggle for African Americans to have equal rights.  Which today is still is a struggle and will always be.  Although great men such Medgar Evers died for the progress that African Americans have today.  After all of his work as a civil rights leader still today many do not his name.  Even though he is a hero who was even buried at Arlington National Cemetery as a World War II veteran the legend of Evers too many is unknown.  So Medgar Evers was a man who was so brave and great yet in many ways his legacy is lost history.  For example you do not you do not hear his name much when discuss other civil rights leaders that were active at the of Evers.  Those such as Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. have a fame that is very iconic.  Where at the same Medgar Evers was one of their associates’ who died like King by being assassinated yet Evers does not receive the well-deserved fame that he should receive.  So it’s a shame that a great man who defied all odds to protect, love, and defend his people to the point death it is not honored the way he should be.  Due the fact that after all Mr. Medgar Evers is one of the courageous great men who died for our rights.

The Night

The Night

The night is free

and the heavens that be,

Dances with me.

The scenery

calms me,

Peacefully.

At last I  feel at ease

A cool breeze,

Lets me feel

The real.

The night,

 A idea that’s composed,

my story is a case that’s closed.

I am enchanted by the smell of a rose.

As the winds transcend,

and the energy is moving through trees

And the night is free.

And the scenery clams me,

Oh yes it clams me

the night.

The Attitude

The Attitude

I look life in the eye

and hold my head high.

sheading tears

as I face my fears

yet still I persevere

as I pray.

 Trying to live for today

I see trouble that comes

in many forms

although I press on

through the storm.

While looking life in the eye

Holding my head high.

Will You Remember Me

Will You Remember Me

Will you remember me young?

Will you remember me when I am old?

Will you remember when I sang my last song?

Will you remember me when I have no more stories to be told?

Will you remember me if I never reach my goal?

Will you remember me when I am old?

Will  you remember when I am at the end of my road?

and I gave my all and soul.

Will you remember me when I am old?

Will you remember me like my first kiss?

Will you remember as I still would exist?

Will you remember me as a pleasant memory?

Or as life has come to be?

Oh old life,

Will you remember me?

Her Beauty

HER BEAUTY

Her beauty is deep,

like the secrets she keeps.

Her heart is unknown

her body is fully grown.

The lady’s eyes are like diamonds,

as she glows

 the sun glows.

After the rain

 she leads you to the rainbows,

Then sun sets

And she’s gone.

But her love is like life that goes on

Oh yes her beauty is deep

Like a cycle of sleep

Oh her beauty,

Her beauty.