League Day 10: JOSIAH AKPAN vs KOLADE OLAWALE ABDULKABIR

LIVE: JOSIAH AKPAN  vs KOLADE OLAWALE ABDULKABIR

NOTE;
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THEME: RACISM

JOSIAH AKPAN

TITLE: THE ODOURS FROM COLOURS

You brought the proverbs yourself

"Don't judge a book by its cover"

But like one sentenced to eternal hypocrisy

You have blinded your eyes 

& served yourselves a dinner of lies

That we are not worthy of note!!!

You say whatever is worth doing

Is not worth doing by a black man!

You do not detest the sky

When it wears its black uniform at night

You like your coffee really dark

Yet you hate us for hating sake

Scorn us for scorning sake

Just because the pigments covering our real self

Is many shades of black

Only men with dark hearts hate dark men!

The blood running through our veins

Is just as red as yours

And the tears that flow through our eyes

Are just as wet as yours

Our anus brings out yellow gems

Just like you do

Wash your face with the soap of sincerity

Rinse it with the cool water of sanity

Then you will behold with utmost clarity

The beauty you ignorantly seek to destroy

The beauty in the colour diversity nature has blessed us with

Quit churning it to a curse...a curse without a cause

What is the purpose of saying we are mankind

If skin colour stops you from being kind to a fellow man?

Hey bro,

Stop being blinded by your skin colour

White, black, red, yellow....all colours

Only fools will create a kingdom of oppression

Over what nature distributed.

Their is only one race worth upholding

It is called the human race.

©Josiah

KOLADE OLAWALE

Title: A TASTE OF RACISM

I've spent hundreds of years to come here,

for love from my land I've brought to share.

I've walked thousands of mile to come here,

for the creation of Almighty

I've come to admire.

I've walked my way and I'm here

but the shackles of hate words

you've bundled me with,

you said my blood smells black

so you decided to put me under the spell of colonialism.

a long way I've walked to be here

In search of the taste of cultural integration,

but now I've been fed with poison of civilization.

you made me think black denote death,

poverty and inferiority,

took my father's heritage for culture shock

and yet you wanted me to greet your father

in a prostration.

you raised my hands up

and we both raised our voices against racism

but in the darkest part of your room

you made my black skin

the rags that cleanses your shoe.

when then will you stop pulling the trigger against my kinsman?

when will you relieve my skin the taste of inferiority?

when you believe in culture integration and not segregation,

when the world sing this one song,

when we all say No to Racism.

GOODLUCK BARDS!!!