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The Issue of Repatriation and Reparation is an InternationalIssue, and not an individual or a Jamaican Issue. Africans all over this world are fighting for Reparation and Repatriation, including our brothers and sisters in the great continent of Mama Africa. Those people who have placed themselves in leadership positions, in our struggle for the liberation of African people, should quietly take a back seat, if they become tired, frustrated and weary of the struggle, instead of trying to betray our people, by telling African people to forget about our struggle, because he or she have had enough.
True leaders do not put themselves at the front of the struggle, they stay among their people and learn as well as teach, since each one teach one. We should never never ask our people to forget the evils of slave trading activities, when our people are still abondoned in the western and other hemisheres, in the dungeons of slave trading activities.
The cause of Africa for Africans at home and abroad is not a religion, so there is no need for any religious speeches, which will attempt to encourage African people, to forget about our degrading living conditions, and think about going to Mount Zion when we die, we are talking about Africa for the Africans in the literal sense of the word. I do hope this Poetic Proclamation below, which is entitled Liberation Age, will help African people, to ignore that deceptive article, which is asking us to forget about Reparation and Repatriation and Africans Liberation in general.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus
LIBERATION AGE
We Africans, do focus now, so here we are today
Justice and truth will never bow, there is so much to say
We are living in a serious time, a time to contemplate
The African redemption line and the Black Liberation Faith
The world at large should understand, why Africans proclaim
The struggle for our Ancestors land, in our Ancestors name
True Africans will never fail to stand up for the truth
And even when they are thrown in jail
they grow deep in their roots
So everyone who are gathered here, should really realize
True Africans don’t walk with fear, they listen to the wise
Now several hundred years ago, they plundered our land
And all who are gathered here should know they shackled our hands
They slaved us in our parents loins and lashed us with their whips
Yet while we screamed and our parents pined,
they kicked our parents hips
They realized we would not die, although we were ill nourished
Then they decided to tell a lie, because our numbers flourished.
In the year 1838, their deeds no more could hide
Of slavery there was much debate, their fears were getting wide
They lied that slavery was abolished, yet people are not yet free
Instead slavery was only polished, the evidence we see
They took our parents hostages, then sailed us to the west
We crossed the Dreadful Middle Passage, a very dreadful test
Abandoned in these foreign lands as captives we remain
The chains were mostly on our hands, but now they are on our brains
England and France were a part of it and so was Portugal
Belgium and Spain did benefit, Germany was their pal
The Dutch was part of all this deal, there is much more to tell
They slave and broke us on the wheels, they gave our parents “HELL”
So Brothers and Sisters here we are, the truth is now declared
This world is on the verge of war, I hope you are prepared
We simply asked to be restored to AFRICA OUR HOME
Our rightful pleas are so ignored, they still keep us in Rome
This verbal forum will not dodge, it will instead highlight
Participants should wear the badge of Truth, Justice and Right
Now I have written much to you, It is time to leave this page
Hoping you comprehend my views, It is LIBERATION AGE
Creative Poetry by Baba Ras Marcus
Revised 6/91 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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