What is black,

A way of life?

Do certain things?

Raise children our way:

Which way,

The old way,

The new?

Aspire to reach only so far?

Aspire to teach only so much?

Appreciate only chosen art-

Who chooses

What is wrong?

Liberate a mind from all else?

What is black?

Is black faster,

Is black stronger…

Is it smarter?

What is black?

A code of conduct;

Speak distinctly-

Whose distinction makes the cut-

Rasta for I?

Act in approved ways;

Who approves?

Listen, and learn-

Deviate, and reduce it?

Always wrong, never right,

Just the opposite of white?

What is black?

Is it a religion?

Should we worship it;

Bow down before its alter;

Pledge our allegiance;

Pray to it to forgive,

Pray to it to enrich,

Pray to it to condemn,

Pray to it to amend,

Pray for salvation-

Pray to it?

What is black?

Is it an ideology?

Trains of monolithic thought,

One size fits all?

Hail to the democratic thief!

Can Lincoln be loved?

He was after all a Repugnant…Ahhh

Republican…

What is black?

Hate all whites,

Hate all Jews,

Hate all Asians,

Hate even the ones that tried?

Tried to understand,

Tried to change the power,

Tried to fight alongside,

Share the same graves,

Tried to free all slaves?

What is Black?

Is it Jamaican,

Is it Haitian,

Cuban,

American,

Italian,

Is it African?

Is it Democrat,

Republican,

Is it separatist,

Federalist,

Is it communist,

Is it everything,

Is it nothing-

Is it just, a skin color?