“pants sagging 40 drinking woman loving

oh, excuse me”

“i’m a nigger

a nigger from the blvd

i’m from the hell you never walk thru

i’m the nigger who sends chills thru your spine

i’m the nigger you would not sit next 2 on the F train the nigger who makes you

turn your head back when you walk

you stop and let me pass

yes, i’m that nigger

i’m the nigger who embarrasses you

in front of your white lover

i’m the nigger your friends ask questions about

i’m the pusher

the pimp

the stick up kid

any other bullshit stereotype you want 2 pin up on me i’m the nigger you blame your laziness on

i’m the great fuck up

the one who always gets the cracker off the hook

i’m the one who trips ‘cause u never taught me the traps u curse and never forgive

look, look, i’m super nigger destroying Amerikka captured by the good never-did-nothing cracker

led away on the 6 o’clock news

home sweet home”

“i’m the nigger you told

there ain’t no death penalty in new York

but every time i get shot down

you march for 2 days and forget

cursed by ham, evolved from monkeys the nigger who, if i died,

all of Amerikkka’s problems would die i’m the nigger the bible talks about

the one who’s gonna burn in hell forever when your off in milk and honey

the nigger you wish would die

i’m the nigger you talk ‘bout on tv

the funny thing is

if you sat and talked 2 me

you would see i’m afrikan all the way thru

if you were not scared of me

you could really love me

but since you judge with your eyes, i’m a nigger a nigger who never slapped a sister

a nigger who never killed a brother

a nigger who never raised my voice 2 an elder

i’m the nigger who,

if your punk ass was getting fuck up on the number 2 train

as everyone turned their heads,

i would die 4 you,”

“i would die for my people if i had 2

but you can’t see that

4 most of you

if you don’t see a Afrikan dressed as a cracker

or a kente cloth intellectual

he just a nigger

all the books i read, poems i wrote

all the shit i done don’t mean shit

when the cracker puts my face on the 6 o’clock news

oh, he’s a drug user

i go from the innocent youth shot down by pigs

2 a nigger for life

because all black youth that choose 2 be them self and not a cracker definition of a man

are just niggers 2 u

so i’ll be a nigger

a nigger from the blvd.”

Excerpt From

No Boys In Brooklyn

Sefu Kafele

https://books.apple.com/us/book/no-boys-in-brooklyn/id1457512025

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