COLOUR BLINDNESS

I'm the same man

On that podium, lend me the loudspeaker

I'm at the forefront of an Instigation 

With an audible message louder than my voice

For the redemption of my skin colour  

Because I'm the black man

Skin blacker than sin

Mental darker than sunset 

They say I'm bathed in dirty grease  

Bathing apes, they still flung bananas

Africa is a big jungle, we live on trees 

Dad lounges on the biggest branch 

Black heritage; descendants of fore fathers who were caged like wild gorillas  

Cuffed in shackles, adorned in rags,chain gangs 

Sold off in markets like stale commodities 

Or traded for sugar and gun powders 

Shipped like consignments in cargo ships

Packed in chambers like canned goods

Some disposed into the sea without a burial, no eulogy, no reefs... Just feed for fishes

The lucky ones; reapers singing Hymns in cotton fields

They were never employees... Slaves; whipped, raped, hanged, incinerated  

The human race suffers racial segregation, the Apartheid.

The ku klux klan love my extermination and hate my emancipation 

That hate me, my culture, my heritage and all of my race... Don't they?

I'm the victim of Racial profiling, being black is my crime 

I'm the same man who isn't stereotyping 

Call myself Malcolm X or Martin Luther king 

And hashtag #JusticeForTrayvonMartin

I'm the same man

On that podium, lend me the loudspeaker 

Calling out for racial justice 

I'm the same black man that condemn the white man 

Though my own forefathers sold us off for a few shillings and guns

But use that same gun to kill another black man 

We've fallen to tribal wars and invasions

Black heritage but Tribalism and tribal profiling is shredding us into pieces 

We hunt our own kind, are we colour blind?

Harm one another with Black magic, hexes and voodoo charms 

Prey on each other like game; human sacrifices and rituals; 

Albinos in East Africa and hunchbacks are on the endangered list 

Autocratic dictators, Coup detats and uprisings 

The countless genocides and homicides in Africa  

Same skin but political affiliation divides us

Same skin but tribal allegiance separate us 

Burn down the whole village because we belong to different parties 

Ethnic discrimination, the typical example of nepotism 

Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water

Because we've sacrificed family ties for kinship ties 

Bloodlines become bad blood

Relatives become enemies 

The same brothers of the same father shed blood flood because they emanate from different gates

I'm the same man on that podium 

Oblivious to the irony

Unawares to the kind of a living paradox that I am

That I only generalise violence and barbarism based on skin colour 

Violence is only an anomaly of human nature

They hate us, but do we love ourselves?

I wish we were all colour blind