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