Segregation Not Integration

"Segregation Not Integration."

On this the horse is out the barn already
the ole school racist didn't want integration but segregation we weren't equal to them.
But when you look at what integration has done to divide and conquer us
segregation was the true solution, we didn't need to integrate with him.
In fact through scripture the Most High segregated His own from the world
Israelites weren't allowed to readily mix with others who didn't worship the Most High.
Look through the Old Testament and see the marriages He broke up because
they weren't equally yoked and you'll see it is no lie.
We are a destroyed people as a whole, don't think we have arrived when we haven't
only a few not the many are living the American Dream many of us can't relate.
Many have become worse than the ole school racist
because they look down on those who aren't on their level with nothing but hate.
Integration wasn't our saviour but it was the undermining catalyst
that separated us from one another.
We were able to sit next to and be with those who hung our people after church
our people were more than happy to be next to them rather than each other.
Our problems are self-hatred, we don't like us because of what they told us
white supremacy, how can it be when they came from us.
Even this truth we won't accept because we don't think there is anything good
about us, this truth you can trust.
We are filling the prisons and the cemeteries we murder each other more than
they may have done in all of slavery.
The youth are making it possible that black men are becoming an endangered species
our self-hatred is making it easy for black men to become history.
Segregated but equal is what we needed, it takes a village to raise a child
we need the village mentality not the mentality of separation.
We didn't need the divided and conquered race that is filled with hatred
for one another that came out of integration.
Many of you may disagree but honestly what has integration done
who came up with this idea of integrating with someone who hates you.
They weren't kicking and screaming to be with us
the fire hoses and the dog attacks prove that this is true.
Those people have their own problems and their own demons to deal with
we didn't need to integrate when we had big problems of our own.
They are the ones who created a god that our people have come to worship
we worship a white god when the scriptures speak of a Black one on the throne.
Segregation isn't an evil it is about self-preservation not for the individual
but for the whole entire race.
Look at the state of Black America after integration, Segregation wasn't
the great evil, we honestly needed not to be integrated but to be in each other's face.

Shelly David Wright, Poet
healingheartspoetry@yahoo.com