September 1, 1971
BLACK INK
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Black Scenes at Carolina
Uni
Gotta Git...
White Cowboys carry guns to do violence
” Comic strips make laughs of violence
” Gangsters live and plan eternal violence
” Television and radio instruct violence
” Christians do blessed violence
” World’s military and police act violence
” Politicians promise or advise violence
So in the name of self-defense
We black folks with some sense-Gotta git. ..
—Ted Joans
Two Little Boys Excerpt
by the Last Poets
HAVE YOU SEEN THE SKINNY LITTLE BOY
THAT CHASES THE WHITE GHOST AT NIGHT?
FACE PUFFED/TRACKS IN HIS ARM AND HIS MIND BLOWN
HIS MOMMA SOMEWHERE DRINKING
AND TALKING ABOUT SURVIVAL
POP’S IN JAIL OR DOWNTOWN AT THE Y
THE LITTLE BOY CHASES THE WHITE GHOST WITH HIS FRIEND
AND THEY GET HIGH/AND THEY GET HIGH
LIKE CLOUD NINE
WHERE EVERTHING IS FINE
HAVE YOU SEEN TWO LITTLE BOYS RUNNING PAST YOU
WITH A LADY’S PURSE?
THEY STOLE A BLACK WOMAN’S PURSE
THE OTHER DAY
YESTERDAY/TODAY/TOMORROW
FACE PUFFED UP
TRACKS IN THEIR ARM
EYES POPPING OUT OF THEIR SKULLS
AND THEIR MINDS BLOWN
and they GET HIGH/AND THEY GET HIGH
TALKIN’ ’BOUT TRIPPIN’/TALKIN’ ’BOUT FLYIN’
TALKIN’ ’BOUT GETTING HIGH/GETTING HIGH
HAVE YOU SEEN TWO LITTLE BOYS SITTING IN SYLVIA'S
STUFFING CHICKEN AND CORNBREAD DOWN THEIR TASTELESS MOUTHS?
TRYING TO REVIVE A DYING HEART
SHRINKING LUNGS AND WASTED MINDS
HAVE YOU SEEN THE SICKNESS OF OUR PEOPLE?
Is it a struggle for integration?
Are you Roy Wilkins in mUitant blackface?
Who are the pigs? Just cops?
Black Studies!
Black Studies!
Black Studies!
But for who? and where? and why?
Is it a struggle for integration?
II
(A radical white is a dirty pig)
Black Studies is for Third World Liberation
and you/study for blackness and discipline
and national control of a country
built on 100 million too many black backs
crippled tears of weary despair
- savage rapes of Sepiaqueens by savage beastmen
(A radical white is a dirty beastman)
and national control of a country
built on too many hungry black & brown babes
of centuries of afro-carib exploitations
III
and when the overkilling ofay race races into their oblivion
we dar^ibt be about integration with them; who are dying and
Death himself . . .
Pull away from the rancid radical odors of SDS, PL
SWP, YAWP . . .
(A radical white is a dirty beastman)
Monroe Trotter, DuBois, Campos, Wright, Cruse, Garvey Brother
who warned us all of the slickslime of the radical beastman.
pull away dig our history or resistance pull away
PantersBeware!!!: the wolf or the fox aligns with the panther
to eventually eat him.
pull away and make black students, black studies
black us
work for our national black liberation
for our fighting ancestors, our black mothers and fathers,
our black children
our black future.
—S.E. Anderson
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