APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!
Today's spotlight shines on a Political Activist, a once Mayoral Candidate of Oakland, and former member of the Black Panther Party. Power to the People!
LOTHARIO LOTHO
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
Our task is indeed a grave one
We realize for us, time has stopped
For others have been here
And tried to spread the word
The prophets have spoken
Malcolm told us what to do
He lived a revolutionaries life
Then he was given a warriors death
He like Jesus was betrayed by
Judas
This sent steel ripping through
his heart
Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, even
Martin Luther King
Did not their work mean a thing
The Vanguard knows the answer
We'll show the people the way
Then the voice of dissension will
grow
From a fierce threat to a deadly
blow
Then the whole world will know
The cry for freedom shall be
heard
Men shall be men and Black men
shall be black
No more living on the other side
of the track
No more shucking
And no more jive
If you ain't on your jobs
You might not survive
So now it's time for all of us
to get ourselves together
To be prepared to fight in all types
of weather
Huey must be free
What's that mean to you
Does it make you feel Black and
Blue
Malcolm's dead but his spirit is
still in our souls
Let us be like Eldridge
And all through life profess our
goals
Black is beautiful
Little Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby,
Little Bobby Hutton was Black
Big Bobby, Big Bobby, Big Bobby
Seale
Big Bobby shall not be killed
Big in soul
Like a man possessed, he travels
days without rest
Crying Huey must be free
Still the Negroes don't understand
Queen Kathleen, Eldridge's wife
Their work has become their life
Shouting on the courthouse doors
Huey must be free
Off the pigs
The sky is the limit
Glittering
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