Black, Old & Poor in 2024

1. Royalty, born the truest descendant of royalty, who’s wealth & inheritance was raided, raped, brutally beaten, murdered & tortured from the hands of my ancestors over the last 3500 years, these heinous acts continue today with little or no justice applied to the suffering of my Race. No reparations offered to allow Us to claim back what was disgustingly and viciously taken from Us. Scattered across every corner of this earth are my Brothers & Sisters. Lied to, they tried to & continue to diminish Our accomplishments, history, divinity as the Ones that birthed & created a World so magnificent, they still fear Our 2nd unstoppable accent to our rightful place as Royalty.

2. Regardless, regardless of the many challenges Black People, My People have faced; degraded, murdered, beaten & burned, We, have been washed in rivers of our own blood have remained steadfast and climbed to achieve greatness, aided and built civilizations' growth, with little or no acknowledgment give. Driven & burnt out of towns We built with our sweat & tears. There is no calculated way to measure, even at our lowest points, the loss it took Us to make the gains that have shook the world, who is about to see a black girl take one of the greatest seats of power ever to held, that of America’s 1st Female Black President.

3. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream for that land, hoping & praying & fighting for all there to see the true value in ‘every woman & man’. He prayed that all could find strength, presence, opportunity & success, hell even true happiness in community, unity and solidarity. Black does not make Us less, it’s one heritage of many, that when joined shows a world able to move passed its pride and vanity successfully growing in strength & wealth from its diverse humanity, able to rally round and resolve issues when called. Knowing united We stand, divided We all fall.

4. Falling, falling to where those that battled the hardest for the very rights most take for granted now live under dark & dirty bridges, no money for food or a warm bed, after fighting for future, left black , poor and dead with not a single thing to show for you. Stopped my crying, help is out there, and I will not allow for Me to bow to the Power of this those who fear to feel & hear My Roar. Awakening the dormant rise & upliftment required to raise out of the emptiness We were saddled with, distracted with; No more, will I be left black, old, and poor in 2024. [End.]