BECAUSE I LOVE MY PEOPLE... Says Uni Q. Mical , Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 5:42 PM, in

...BUT I HATE THEIR BULLSHIT.

Walls of K.O.S.

(dedicated to my ppl who can't see above the concrete)

MY PEOPLE...HOLD ON.

MY PEOPLE...HOLD ON.

MY PEOPLE...

hold themselves in the highest esteem

address ourselves as 

brothas, 

sistas,

kings

and flyest of queens

MY PEOPLE

glow in summertime

glimmer with july in steam

wear earth tone colors

to blend this brown to blue and green

MY PEOPLE

advance in self

talking knowledge and wisdom

tellin others

we don't know we've been robbed of religion

taken from the slave ship

now camouflaged as a prison

conforming to the capitalist world that we live in

MY PEOPLE

wear hair natural, locs afros & twists

keep hair styled in love & a passionate bliss

never succumbing 2 white ideals of beauty--

but embracing AFRIKANNESS

MY PEOPLE.

somewhere within this knowledge of self

lays a fear of acknowledging anything else

my people say we're children of God

the stars that twinkle on the earth

the sun and moon as man and woman

who were created to give birth

BUT HOLD IT 

first thing u meet me

what's the greeting u say?

Peace, my sista

and i feel the love, it never hurts to spray

tho i know it's too early for me to burst in with 

GAY

for fears that you, MY PEOPLE,

will be lurking away

AND I'D

like to thank you for assuming that i'm straight.

no way for u to identify,

no rainbows bloomin from my face

but what i love to tolerate

is how we're so fluid with the race

until it comes down to sexuality

then u're spewin us with mace

and...

what's your argument again?

oh, riiight, it's just unsuitable to place

2 penises & 2 vaginas together,

so disillusioned, a DISGRACE

talking--

so boldly without knowing a different view is in the place

but the moment i say 

I'M GAY

u look confused at what to say.

so what is your fear, i ask?

let's open the floor for challengers!

and excuse me if i'm being presumptuous

or somebody's perspective gets silenced but

BROTHAS,

are u scared to have a gay friend

for fears u might be down with it?

i had no IDEA it rubbed off so easy,

that u hadda pin ur sexuality to the ground and if

ur defense

is there should be man, woman, and child in this

i can respect that

but what's really keeping u from coming across that

to dialogue in this?

and SISTAS,

why are u sitting so uncomfortable?

the last thing on my mind right now

is going down on u.

i'm not a recruiter,

no, not after ANY ounce of u

so why can't we just chill

without u thinkin that i'm after u???

tryna make me attractive to men--

squeezin me in dresses/perfume/& high heel shoes

to attract those that i don't desire

REMINDER:

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I CHOOSE.

what y'all can't seem to understand

the reason we're not coming out is...YOU.

for fear of ur insecurities,

for fear of what u'll do

for ur lack of understanding

bein trapped inside this booth

that how i'm living is unrighteous

disguising ur hatred as truth

but NONE of u know just what the God in the sky can do.

saying God only created us just for us to produce

is one of the most tired, tasteless of excuses

y'all are limiting God's outlook

cuz ain't we all created in this image?

are you truly analyzing what u believe in,

or are you a slave to your religion?

come on y'all, aint we all been mouthin off that it's time for us to uplift?

for every person i graze

we're all blessed with the gift

to bring us closer together

instead of focusin on these rifts

that push us further apart

when u see whose hips i'm holdin with my wrists.

and allow me to evoke the spirit

of MLK and the list

of black activists

who brought into change what they spit

and the countless others behind the scenes

who were gay and were hidden

i guess our commitment to the movement

aint valued the same...

if we're DIFFERENT.

but

who are YOU to decide what i do with this body???

y'all soundin like white supremacists

blockin them water fountains

blockin abortion lobbies

blockin them corporate dollars

let the topic of gays come up

errrybody resort to SILENCE.

dig deep into ur knowledge of self

and u'll discover a lotta walls

lotta fears layin undiscussed 

topics we keep hushed

as our culture falls

and this ignorance is accepted as our culture,

things we just all agree upon

some say if u're gay then that's a white thing

...last i checked, i was brought over here wit y'all.

and what does it benefit us to HUSH

when there's a boy who enjoys to call

women bitches in every sentence

to hide how he watches gay porn and gets off?

as more girls hide their tears behind drunk nites

cuz they couldn't afford to fall

as more rainbow children razor wrists in basements...

FOR LACK OF SUPPORT FROM Y'ALL.

and YES.

they are getting younger and younger

regardless of whether u hear our cries,

we gon' roll our thunder

take this info

twist it in ur locs, afros and sundress

steada shoutin 

ONE LOVE

we really needa be shoutin 

ONE LESS

cuz we lead each other astray

when we can't move past these dumb threats

boxing our ppl together as ONE--

well i'm suffocating faking "straight" in this one chest

HOW THE HELL CAN WE MOVE FORWARD TO FREEDOM

WHEN YOU CANT EVEN RESPECT THIS ONE YET?

MY PEOPLE...HOLD ON.

MY PEOPLE...HOLD ON.