No Place For
A Black Man
Is there a
place for someone like me?
Is there a
haven for black men?
Is there a
place where I’m accepted,
Not rejected,
where onto me
Others
insecurities are not projected?
Is there a
place for a black man?
Where I’m not
seen as a threat?
Where my
dress doesn’t determine
What I’ve
learned?
Where I’m not
pressured to
Join a set?
Is there a
place for a black man?
Where I don’t
speak for everyone else?
Where I can
simply be me,
Live life
carefree
And pursue
dreams outside
Of what’s
perceived for my ethnicity?
Maybe there
is no place for the black man.
This man may
forever live in fear.
The best of
him
Will always
live in the shadows
Of the worse
of his peers
I cannot
envision
A place for a
black man
Not even in
the next
Four hundred
years.
- K.S. Fort
From the new book, "Sober Reality : Cry Standing".
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