Abash Black Slavery Poem by Preston Mwiinga

Who told you that I am your capital.
Who told you that I can be treated like a merchandise.
What is it that you really want to benefit when you sale me off as a slave.
You have forgotten that as Africans we always stood up together for one another.
Together as one we fought for the independence of Africa.
In search for greener pasture, we allowed your people to come into our land and we came to yours.
You invested in our country and worked in our companies so did we do so.
We became the one big African family which has been nourished with the inter marriages Among-est us and we gave out the best bread.
You learnt our language and we learnt yours.
Everything was okay not until you realised that we are actually capital to you.

You now hate us for mingling because we poses the black color and you are white of Arabic in nature.
You have seen great capital in us, because of this you terrorize us in all angles.
You are merclessly, you have separated husbands from their wives, , children from their parents and brothers from their sisters.
The men you have tortured before selling and the women raped and harassed in all angles.

You keep reminding us that black is cursed and we deserve to suffer, you say ours is to serve you even in harsh conditions but with little complaints.
You do not want us to call you our bosses but rather our masters,
If we refuse, you kill us like a goat slaughtered upside down.
If we keep resisting, , you throw us our very high voltage lines to die without history but with mystery.

Let me tell you, black is beautiful for this is a color of chocolate.
It is a symbol of strength and humanitarian because of our attitudes towards each other.
Black is a symbol of love because of the brother and sisterhood we share with each other.
Black is not capital that it can be at the market selfishly.
Black is not a leeway to prosperity.
End slavery of the black color end it now and love, , peace and unity reign within us even as we keep fight slavery.
Let us end slavery and end it now.