I've always wondered what it would have been like to be....

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Ms. Ruby.

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First in her day, to pave the way

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Of little black children and little white children

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Working together to say,

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We all just want a chance.

 

Lately I've been wondering who...

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Will speak with as much truth as Dr. Angelou.

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The way that Ms. Maya viewed this world challenging while leading,

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taught us unequivocally

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about what it means to be a woman, phenomenally.

 

And, what would be her answer?

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Angela Davis the Panther

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If we asked her, ‘did your sacrifices slow the spread of their racist cancer’?

 

The road is unpaved and ever bending,

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Full of useless and senseless defending

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As to why things still aren't fair,

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As to why the founding fathers don't want to share,

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The privilege. The access. The wealth.

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Just as these activists that came before me,

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Just as the ones I now see,

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When I hear the anthem, 

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I will take a knee,

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because,

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I believe I was born to be a revolutionary.

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© Fanny Kearse