Month: February 2022

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The only one in the room

Written by C Hues

February 10, 2022

When you’re the only black kid in your history class, expect to teach the lesson
So you’re the only black kid in the store, security will follow you and tell a lie
When you’re the only black kid in your history class, the pain will never lessen
So you’re the only black kid in beauty school, and fix your hair with conk and lye

Since I am the only black man in the office, make sure to talk LOUDLY and PROJECT
She’s the only black woman at the concert, all the metal fans whisper and give her stares
Since I am the only black man in the office, is that why they’re mocking my project?
She’s the only black woman at the swim meet, so she quits and takes the stairs.
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Currency

Written by C Hues

February 9, 2022

		                Who should be on our currency?
				2Pac, Biggie, Nas, or Curren$y?
				One Franklin gone, another to supersede him
				Parks, Coretta Scott King, Ali
				
				Jimi Hendrix on the five, smashin’ a fender
				Pac still alive, no more pretenders
				Harriet bumps Hamilton, a new era starts
				Women get equal pay as the ten changes gender

				Jefferson tried to escape what happened w/ Hemings
				Jackie Robinson endured in and outta the innings
				But light will shine on history’s darker people
				42 on the 2 and the real hero’s winning

				Bass Reeves replaces Andrew Jackson
				Thurgood Marshall on the dollar gains traction
				“If only”, some say like it’s just a dream
				But nothing is gained through lack of action
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Anger

Written by C Hues

February 1, 2022

                                Rage rode Baldwin right to France
				Indignation made the Nation
				Fury forced Malcolm to take his stance
				Ire hit apartheid with sanction
				
				Anger cannot tell the tale
				Anger cannot break the ceiling
				All Anger does is fail
				Because Anger is just a feeling