Pro-Black doesn’t mean anti-anything.
El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
there are at least twenty-seven
white people i love. i counted.
four from high school, five from
undergraduate years, maybe
three from grad school
(one gay=bonus points) &
an assortment of compelling
melanin-deprived miscreants
in chicago & countrywide.
two brothas in the afterlife
remain why i add rather than
subtract.
This poem was originally published in This Land, Vol. 5 Issue 5. March 1, 2014.