Sunday 25 December 2011

Go on, try to define me baybee

X marks this spot baybeee,  
I ain't what u had in mind
Unlikened to that protagonist mind of urs,
Dead set on attributing me with stray concepts
Which have spun
Those precious pseudo ideas into a
Precious lil parcel of preconceptions,
Predicated on limited stereotypes!

It's the 21st century baybeee,
So how about u pull that ignorant flag
Out of ur @%$
And pick up ur iPad
And educate urself

Or let me give u the lesson...

I never aksed to be born,
Never aksed to be this color,
To be part of that tribe
Or that one,
I never aksed my great grandfather
Why he was a farmer,
Not literate,
I never aksed my grandfather
Why he didn't love my father enough,
Preferring to drown his sorrow
In merridom triggered by belonging
To a minority

I never had the opportunity to
Question my father
About what exactly it was that led him
to abandon his family,
Never aksed to be the only coloured
Bredrin in my school
To be thought I belonged,
If I imitated dem majorities!

And then I educated myself,
Looked at my history,
Identified the factors that led
to my being in this nation
of pale faces...

My nation was raped...
By dem past, old, wastemen,
dem capitalist ignoramuses
Dead set on determining a hierarchy
By any means necessary…

Preying on our mothers and sisters,
Exploiting our fathers and brothers,
No wonder my ancestry
Indicates a wretched suppression
Of colour,
We hated ourselves for it,
For what it meant for us,
And these past experiences
Are repressed so deep down that
The next generation hear 
Not even a murmur
Of the crimes committed against us.

After all,
God forbid there is a reversion:
Segregation,
Apartheid,
KKK,
Lynching…
And so
Our parents and grandparents
Feed us fables of belonging,
Pointing to our Birth Certificate
The Racial Discrimination laws
To the American President
But I say to them "Save it…"

I embrace this looming X 
Lingering over my head
As a result of my displacement
In history,
It’s not my fault
It’s not your fault
Shall we dig up the blameworthy corpses
And hold them accountable?
Nah...

Knowledge
U see,
Has taught me
It was key,
And I will define me as I please,
So don’t see my colour
And identify me as black,
white, brown, yellow...
See this X
And engage me in banter,
I will educate you
About who I am

I will be the storyteller
And tell you the tale of how...
Submission to a religion,
Undetermined by status,
Uncoloured by colour,
Untainted by ignorance, has
Enabled me to envision my
Past, present and
Future to a most realised of realizations…
To acceptance!
I belong to a majority baybee ;)

Yeah that's right,
I'm an ethnic majority
Put that section
In ur applications,
And while your at it, add this:

La illah ha illalah Muhammad ur rusulalala  [X]

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