A Strong Proud Black Man!

He is and has been the toughest man that ever lived, and has never taken a drink. He was born with a very brilliant mind but sometimes don’t think. He's pimped his ride around the world several times wit’ that cross-country pimpin', he has fought the police here and there and sometimes came up limpin’.

He's been locked up, locked down, locked in, and locked out, most of his life. But he has rolled wit’ the punches, and has defeated the strife. Many times he's touched the sky but never has been on an intoxicating high. He has watched soul brothers and sisters give up, just lie down and die. He goes to war ‘til death against his proud brother, and then he has much love for his brother’s beloved mother. He has seen needles destroy lives with fierceness…and he'll tell you, he was one of the meanest of them all but refused to take that trip, or accept that tempting pierce.

He has witnessed so many of his younger brothers and sisters getting iced by AIDS because of unsafe sex, drugs, dirty needles, and blood-stained razor blades. He has known troubles like his enslaved proud strong fathers and brothers, and has known Pain like his enslaved beautiful proud strong sisters and mothers. 

Because of them and their shedding blood to this day he proudly reigns. He was torn away from his loving family like a frightened slave child who kept hope alive for the longest while. He has migrated from southern poverty cities to northern cities Pity, rats, roaches and ghetto slums. He has sold dope to the rich, and has slept and eaten at missions wit’ Bums. He has journeyed from welfare to millionaire. He is and has been the four P’s, Pimp, Pastor, Politician, and the Police.

He is and has been full of it…pride, talent, skillz, hope, and shit. Hell you name it he can claim it. He's got much game! But can’t seem to break yesterday's slum chains. Stone cold steel cells inside of down south, and up north segregated jails turned him into a bitter man. But fate and faith showed him that he could forget all that drama and still be part of the Savior’s Plan. He has been down and out in the small country and the big city. He has been praised and he has been pitied. He has been too sick to die and sometimes too afraid to cry.

The brother was on the scene stuntin' when a variety of Rap and Hip-Hop joints and their lyrical content provided wealth and prosperity to so many of us. But then like a murdering demon he allowed the art to become like a killer of us, bloodthirsty, mean, and creating much distrust, sometimes ending a proud parents precious dream.

He was also there when Old School Rhythm and Blues Entertainers gave up their vision chase 'cause of that whole damn “it’s all about youth culture scene.” Hell, ending someone else life-long dream. He was in Watts back in the day when it burned like a field of dry wheat. Oh yeah, home boy threw the first stone, and just like a vicious Black Panther deep into the ghetto he was gone.

He was in New York on 9/11 with a big powerful life-saving hand when America became one and would not retreat, while standing victorious over defeat. Oh yeah, Katrina, he was there too, in the Big Easy, doing some awfully bad things, and some things that were mighty good. Oh yeah, in his own 'hood. 

He has stood on 'Frisco’s tallest hills during his playin’ years while comforting his baby girl whose face was like an ocean because of her many tears. He is and has been a menace to society, and as for women, he's had a variety. But his ultimate dream is to have peace and harmony with his beautiful, original, ebony queen.

While constantly letting her know that he is not as bad as some in society makes him seem. His Mother, his Sisters, and his Women, he believes are as strong, precious, and beautiful today as the created Nubian Eve was back in the day, and this he proudly says. No matter what he'll do, sister he’ll always be a reflection of you, and you of him, too. He has done dirt in the 'hood true enough, but he has also done some good. Don't be confused; he's not glorifying any of his terrible past wrongs. 

But they were there among the little bit of good that he has done, which have made him very strong. Why is he so proud? Because no matter how much wrong he has done in his life as a man, he is and will always be the Savior’s child. His life will always be in the Almighty's hand, and that my people will never ever change, go out of style, or disband.

He is alive! He has persevered! He has weathered life’s terrible storms! He has survived! Even when the naked soul of his existance is on the brink of distruction the brothers gon' work it out, no doubt.

He missed out on the Dirty South’s brutal slave trade only because he wasn't there. Although he declares he should have been as a hater of slavery enforcing his inherent bravery.

However, he still ended up in its' damn Dixie Delta, Jim Crow parade, a hundred years later gawking at and sizing up the instigators, and just waiting for the chance to become the terminator. And in spite of all the bullshit American Pie that he's often faced with and sometimes forced to try, he is still the original human being. He is still the greatest of all things, he is still A Prince, he is still A King. He is still ….  

A Strong Proud Black Man!


                                                       Jb-eyes