Black America is a Joke

"Black America is a Joke."

Integrating was jumping from the frying pan into the fire
now we are being destroyed by each other everyday.
Just like the whites who fled the cities in fear of a black face
those who feel they have arrived too are moving away.
Our youth are exterminating each other better than Orkin on roaches
we pass each other in the street with looks of disgust and distaste.
We have so much self-hatred for one another
that if we had the bomb all black faces we'd erase.
Black America is a joke that isn't funny we are so divided by the dollar
we've bought into this American Dream Nightmare.
Many fought and died just so we could vote for other white folks
now the black faces we can vote for in many cases only want the money they don't care.
Black leadership is a joke they are on a money trail as well
they can be bought and sold depending on the fight.
These who are supposed to lead the people from the Pulpits
are in Darkness themselves, behind a dollar they won't do what's right.
The church is a corporation that makes the CEO (Pastor) rich
while those who are spiritually enslaved are constantly going broke.
The Pastor is quick to tell you to pray while they prey on you
they tell you to wait on the Lord while you wait on a ride home, what a joke.
Almost everyone that rises to the top look down on the poor
like they are nothing until the television cameras they see.
Then they are all about entertaining like tap dancing fools
jiving and conniving the blind to their Bullchips, what a hypocrisy.
Our politicians are seen as corrupt getting caught doing the same things
that their white counterparts are doing all the time.
We get caught and make deals with the devil to rat each other out
when it is them that have their origins in crime.
Scripture points out in Deut. 28 that Egypt (America) was a life/death sentence
for the disobedient, we were sent to the land of the enemy.
Now you fast forward from the slave ships till now
along side a wicked white face is a wicked black face that also hates me.
Black America is a joke, if Gangsta Rap wasn't making wicked white folks
rich and destroying us they wouldn't allow it to be heard in the neighborhood.
But our destruction is seen as a blessing to those who created their own god
our destruction is seen as something that's good.
Black America is a joke that needs to end it was never funny steppin’ and fetchin’
behind a dollar with a wicked white face on it.
We are truly the Lost tribes of Israel, lost to our identity and our humanity
it will take the Most High's return to stop the insanity you must admit.

Shelly David Wright, Poet
healingheartspoetry@yahoo.com