Why Blacks Don't Get Wealthy Poem by Yehualashet Teshome
Why Blacks Don't Get Wealthy
Hats off
To the manipulator, the predator
Sharp as a whip
Smart as a fox
He taught the African to be modest
Because God doesn't want him to be rich and spoiled
He tells him wealth is evil
Heaven is for the wretched
Hungry and destitute
Teaches him a prayer
Give us our daily bread
He amasses gold and diamond
From the backyards of the African
While the African looks away
Hungry and busy praying
Give us our daily bread
Well, well
The predator returns his prayer
Gives him his daily bread
Or so he pretends
In return for a gold nugget
When the gold is gone and bread scarce
The African blames God
Blacks don't get wealthy
Too poor to ask for more
They get what they pray for
Daily bread or hamburger
Junk food
With Coca-Cola
Pepsi Cola
2) The Whites copied the Africans. At first the Africans are wealthy people, never poor. As in every society there are yhe richest and the poorest. But the white intruders have copied the wealthy African in trading slaves. What I want to say? A poet must write the true story and not the fiction. IF it is a fiction, that must have a Poet´s Note. Enough wealthiest blacks, I reckon. Just read the history about Africa.
Dear Sylvia. I agree with you. Africans are the wealthiest people, but they are not aware of it. Their wealth is being looted and used by others. My message is like a wake up call.
1) ...I recently visited Africa and read in the archives that the Rich Kingdoms have enslaved the poorer people there. Long before the whites conquered their kingdoms and made them to slaves, usually the countries that lie on the ocean, and then the real slave trade started with Africans as slaves sold to the US more to cultivate their lands at their cheapest. Until President Lincoln abolished slavery. The Africans themselves started the slavery.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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4/28/2024 7:33:38 AM # 1.0.0.1119
A poignant piece of poetry written in persuasive expressions with conviction.......................................