Do We Still Need Black History Month

 Do we still need a Black History month

Or do you think we're just doing too much

 Twenty nine days just to explain

Why we still wear the slave master last name

And is it fair or even right

That we glorify our ancestors for their harrowing fight

Against enslavement, brutality, terrorism, segregation

Separate but equal,  job and housing discrimination

But they say that doesn't exist any more

and that the past is gone

So in the memory of our severely bludgeoned Brother

Can't we all just get along

And get with the program, you know, the banning of our books, 

our history, our culture, our hairstyles, our looks

Melting into the pot that the kettle called "black"

Do we need to continue to tell our own story

Or just let another distort the facts

T.C 

2024