A Poet Named Keef

this blog is located on the corner of Deep Poetic Intellectual Ave and Unapologetic Hood Nigga Blvd Follow me on twitter @GoPoetKeefBrown

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...last night was mad real https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_Q8ojAUZr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=114ki5ehyso91

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Pops, Bros. Murry Chrimuh https://www.instagram.com/p/Br1Y3Qfgb_D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j81fte1pn9op

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She's art

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Tell a friend, tell ten. Support affirmation for black students. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVzOHOAE1m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6txmiz85lvy

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Support fat Black men

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I don’t know who this bloke is, but I definitely think we should all start saying “thriving wage” until it becomes a thing

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not only bread, but roses.

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I love all of this

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My country

I legit cant believe I have to say this but. Here it goes.

Given it's the 4th I feel I should clarify in case you were wondering how I felt in terms of patriotism. Nigga, I am a descendant of slaves. You know what that means?

The idea of celebrating Independence as a nation while holding human beings in bondage is the very paragon of both irony and hipocrisy. For these reasons and their privilege and their gross miseducation, white folks are either fools or privileged enough to acknowledge the atrocity that is this nations inception, but suspend it long and well enough to find some pride in being American. Me? I'm not only acutely aware of the atrocity of its inception, but am also persistently confronted with the legacy that makes America the present day atrocity it is. So then, I can't as easily suspend my beliefs. I'd have to flat out ignore the truth.

"But Keef, folks at the border would love to be in your position, you should feel privileged to be a citizen"

My being here and their not, even the conditions that make them want to leave aren't the result of time and chance, the stars aligning or the ordinance of God, it's the result of white men's plunder. I show my God gratitude for air in my lungs, not for the byproduct of the horror of America.

I love Black America but only because "Western Hemispheric part of the African Diaspora" is a clunky term. I love what we've done, what we've built and how we've resisted but my ancestors would be ashamed if I posited it as part of the fabric of America...as though it's a fraternity and these atrocities are some hazing ritual or dues owed to claim the title.

Genocide, slavery and subjugation aren't stains on the American fabric. That would make it an inperfect place that is otherwise great. No, these are the foundation and lifeblood of this place, it is its reputation in the world community. I refuse take pride in or align myself that if for no other reason than having to answer for worldwide atrocities they have inflicted. Much less for the horror on myself and my people.

The ideals propogated as what it means to be American are a farce, it's lip service and revisionist history. The redeeming qualities are limited to the greatness of Blackness and it that's where my pride and allegiance lies; the affront to America that is Blackness. Not them lame ass stars and bars.

Now, who got the grill poppin?

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Sheena Liam aka シーナ・リアム aka Sheena Liam Yue Sheen aka 粘悦馨 aka Nián Yuèxīn (Malaysian-Chinese, b. 1991, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia) - Top Fashion Model and Embroiderer. Embroidery Arts: Black Thread, Embroidery Hoop

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RARE HISTORIC PHOTOS WE MIGHT HAVEN’T YET SEEN

An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida

Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957

Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII

Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945

The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888

A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936

Job Hunting In 1930’s

German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945

Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961

Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934

Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931

Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932

The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947

The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967

Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967

Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974

Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter” more

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Wow

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"Can't wait" - Bart Scott

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Update, and a thank you.

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These lil fast ass girls was in here doing the "for the dick" challenge and I'm embarrassed..... smh

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R.I.P

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Myself, clearly inebriated. Shayla Bang, ever gracious @sooakland #SoBlack (at Oakland, California)

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Shots from the #blackjoyparade I had the best time loving, laughing, and spending money in fellowship with my people. I love y'all. I love your blackness, and I love your joy. . . . . . 📸: @eleven85media #poetry #spokenword #bars #rhymes #LiveWriteSpit #PraeditusOrator #RealRichmond #GramFam (at Oakland, California)