by Too Black
"The First Black" the Clayface of the Black race -- shape-shifted to fit the state's mission Muddying the waters of slaughter A farcical marvel; built by white guilt Sculpted and welded to quell a rebellion "The First Black" is almost always the safe Black Raised as a docile rotwild Taught to bark down at its own breed, but rarely seems to bite the white hand that feeds "The First Black" the single needle conveniently placed within the colonized haystack Handpicked -- personified as the proverbial reminder, "Hey, maybe now the evil empire might have a soul???" Or at least an irredeemable heart beat "The First Black" the empire's artificial pacemaker A white device pumping electrical impulses of 'hope' and 'progress,' to prevent the cardiac arrest of the American project "The First Black" indoctrinating little Black kids with their elitist trends, "if they work hard too" they can grow up to be grifting assimilationists "just like us" Achieving the same decadent "Black Excellence" like: The First Black President to order a drone strike on a wedding night (Change!) The First Black Billionaire to help gentrify a borough (Brooklyn Stand Up!) The First Black Colonel given the job to train an African death squad (Africom) "The First Black" When 'rooting for everybody Black' goes wrong like a "First Black" mayor authorizing a MOVE bomb Simmering in the inflammable contradictions, the truth spawns "The First Black" is the unsavory labeling of genocide and slavery as democracy's marketplace of "imperfections" While arrogantly proclaiming, "hey, look at our first Black person section!" "The First Black" IS NOT a person -- it's a false assertion A deluded assumption That a corrective to oppression is the individual achievements of a few That Power comes by trickling down some sour crumbs to the collective Or by an inevitable glass ceiling we negros can break through Instead of a burning imperial home, white-hot to collapse "The First Black" IS NOT "progress" Progress is not a hill we climb It's a series of colonial mountains we load to explode It's the Igbo people The first enslaved Africans To rise from the bottom of the deck ravaging their slave Lords Tossing their captors overboard While arriving free on shore Only to march back into the water because they'd rather die as martyrs Than survive the terror to become a "first Black" whatever "The First Black" DOES NOT exist -- only everyday Black folk Who collectively defy and persist Everything else... is a white supremacist myth