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  1. THERE THEY ARE.AND HERE THEY COME.IT'S FROM THEM, HE IS FLEEING FROM..WITH EACH AND EVERY NEW GHETTO DAY.THEY ARE COMMUNITY PREDATORS,AND HE IS FLEEING PREY...HE HAS PURPOSE,EMBRACES KNOWLEDGE,THEY DO NOT CARE.HE IS BEGINNING COLLEGE,OF THEM HE HAS TO BEWARE...HE FLEES FROM BLACK MEN,WHO HAVE NO SELF MOTIVATION....HE FLEES THOSE WHO BRING COMMUNITY DEVASTATION...HE FLEES FROM DRUG DEALERS..DRUG DEALERS THEIR DRUGS THEY WANT HIS MIND TO CONTAIN...OR LURE HIM INTO SELLING DRUGS AND END UP IN A CELL DETAINED..HE FLEES FROM BLACK WOMEN ,TEMPTING,SCHEMES,ON PURSUIT..HE FLEES THE PIMPS STREET CORNER PROSTITUTES...HE FLEES FROM STREET GANGS WHO ARE ON PURSUIT..THE GANGS ARE LOOKING FOR BLACK MEN TO RECRUIT....HE FLEES FAKE PREACHERS,FLOCK RECRUITING,SPEAKING GOD IS WHAT YOU NEED..THEIR RELIGION IS SPIRITUAL CAMOUFLAGED GREED...AMIDST GHETTO CHAOS,,IN HIS SELF HE IS BELIEVEING..FROM COMMUNITY SCHEMERS,FIENDS,TEMPTATIONS,FOR A FUTURE, HE MUST BE FLEEING....
  2. ONE NIGHT,EERIE SOUNDS I BEGIN TO HEAR..THEN,SHADOWY,GHOSTLY IMAGES BEGIN TO APPEAR..GROWING,RECURRING,ECHOING NOISES,AS BLACK HISTORY SPIRITS BEGIN GATHERING AROUND.ARE THEY THE HAUNTING,MOANING,AND RESTLESS SOUNDS./..SOULS OF SLAVES FROM SLAVE PLANTATIONS, BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY CHAINED ON SLAVE SHIPS THAT TRAVELLED THE SEAS..SOULS OF BLACK MEN THAT WERE HUNG IN SOUTHERN TREES.DO THEY OBSERVE SELF ENSLAVEMENT,SELF CONFINDMENT AND SELF GENOCIDE BOUND..ARE THEY THE HAUNTING,MOANING AND RESTLESS SOUND/.. REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING,MALCOLM X, MEDGER EVERS, AND EMIT TILL..UNSEEN AMONG US, DO THEY CREEP..UNHEARD AMONG US, DO THEY SILENTLY WEEP/DO THEY WONDER IF BLACK UNITY WILL EVER BE FOUND/.. ARE THEY THE HAUNTING,MOANING AND RESTLESS SOUND/..BLACK HISTORY SACRIFICERS,,AMONG US DO THEY WANDER/.WILL THERE BE A BLACK FUTURE,DO THEY WONDER/.UPON BLACK COMMUNITIES WILL THEY FOREVER HAUNT AND HOUND/.ARE THEY THE HAUNTING, MOANING AND RESTLESS SOUNDS/...
  3. DESPITE BEING BORN AND RAISED IN THE GHETTO.YOUNG BLACK MALES,THEIR TALENTS THEY ARE ENCOURAGED TO SHOW..THEY LEARN NOT JUST FROM BOOKS UPON SHELVES..THEY ARE TAUGHT THE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES,TO TRANSFORM THEIR COMMUNITIES AND THEMSELVES...WORDS OF A UNITY ANTHEM,THEY SPEAK AND CHANT..DRESSED RESPECTFULLY,NOT SHOWING THEIR UNDERWEAR,FROM SAGGING PANTS..THEY ARE TAUGHT BLACK ACCOMPLISHMENTS,BLACK ASTRONAUTS,DOCTORS,INVENTORS AND SCIENTIST,THEY ARE TAUGHT WHAT THEY CAN BECOME..LEARNING ABOUT AUTHOR ALEX HALEY,MARCUS GARVEY,MALCOLM X AND PROFESSOR MANNING MARABLE,,THEY ARE REMINDING YOUNG BLACK MALES WHERE THEY CAME FROM...THEY ARE TAUGHT TO HAVE A SPIRITUAL GROWING NEED..LEARNING TO BE LIKE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HARRIET TUBMAN FEELING THE NEED TO LEAD...WHEN THEY SPEAK,,POSITIVE WORDS ARE HEARD..NOT MOTIVATED BY THE RAPPERS DESTRUCTIVE WORDS...TAUGHT TO SPEAK OF BLACK WOMEN AS DARK AND LOVELY QUEENS..NOT SPEAKING THE RAPPERS RAP LYRICS, CALLING BLACK WOMEN NAMES OBSCENE....THEY ARE TAUGHT TO BE STRONG ,BLACK AND PROUD,A FUTURE ANCIENT AFRICAN TRIBE..UNITED BLACK VOICES,SOUNDING LOUDER THAN THE ROAR OF AFRICAN LION PRIDES....THIS IS POSSIBLE. I IMAGINE THIS...

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