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Brothers and Sisters and ISIS: A Poem — 'Don’t worry about ISIS... Who’d care if black people got beheaded?'

Images screen captured from YouTube videos.
Images screen captured from YouTube videos.


By Rev Reynard Blake, Jr., BAR

Black folks don’t worry about ISIS
Skins too dark
Not valued, unlike white reporters
Who’d care if black people got beheaded?
That wouldn’t rally American and global retaliation
Black people couldn’t afford to pay ransoms, anyway
Low-wage, underemployed, and unemployed brothers and sisters
They’re having a hard time to stay alive
That’s far more dangerous than ISIS
If black people got killed by ISIS
They would just be collateral
Like in 9/11
ISIS is evil
Hiding behind Islam to kill
But, ISIS wants territory
By any means necessary
Ultimately, ISIS wants white people
To intellectually and spiritually slap white America
Terrorize them
Make white Americans look for them
Every nook and cranny
Make the world think about them every day
ISIS wants to raze their white American Jesus
Those same white people
The ones that internalize
“OUR God is better than your god”
Another way to say, “Allah and Islam—not valid”




 Reprinted with permission from Black Agenda Report.

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