Ujamaa Cooperative Economics Some say that Integration was the death Of black owned businesses Some say that the Civil Right Act was the death Of the traditionally black neighborhood That those who could afford it Moved out to leave the Poor of the poorest and our elders To fend for themselves against Young black warriors Who only respect Getting hold the processions Of others by any means necessary Some say that The black middle class Has turned its back On their sisters and brothers Some say that Cosby Who set on the sideline During the Civil Right Moment Should had told us first Before he told the whites also That he have nothing but disdain For the black and poor And that this is evident that the Black middle class is White washed by the greenness of their money As in all things there is A grain of truth like A pebble in our collective shoe That rubs us raw and Some middle class blacks are Walking on a cloud of self delusion As not to muddy their designer shoes In the muck and mire of the ground in which The poor are digging out a living Ujamaa- Cooperative Economics The black green back buck Is not our savior But only a tool to be used To buy new and stronger booth laces In which the poor Can pull themselves up by Cooperative is the telling word That guild us as a black light That will show us our true color Economics is what we should Be teaching our children Is only a mean to a greater end None of us should be intransigently ignorant Of this fact The church both black and white in its misguided Way have been trying To save us with a white God Once black but we are Hearing none of that this idea That Jesus was black is as Distasteful to blacks as it is to whites A dark people without a dark God Is lost in the wilderness of whiteness And that wilderness is our home The land of the brave and the colonized. And no manner of musical or sport bread crumbs Can save us The black dollar is rich to spend on each other To pour back into our own communities Live not where you are disconnected Move back to the soil from which you grew Money talks in America let your speak Ebonics. Ujamaa
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