League Day 10:ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU vs EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

LIVE: ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU vs EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

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THEME: RACISM

ONI TOMIWA OLAREWANJU

Title: LETTER TO A RACIST

Dear racist,

        How do you want your coffee,

Grossly black or truly white?

Are you painted with many hues

Or do you bear a cracked face with glued feelings?

Men are born, black first, brown next, white last.

Mother earth is black.

Black is the colour that houses mystics of the universe-

You do not cast spells in white light.

But black is not darkness,

neither white; the colour of God.

White is not that sight

Giving room to bleached memories

And fingers of colourless hopes

For those who see and the blind.

But if evil besiege black

Why do men envelope their skins

In rounds of dreams and moans

When nightfall clothe us?

Or why must men eat of the soil, truly black?

Are you fastly stung with delusion

Seeing not the beauty of all colours?

For if all colours are mixed

Black comes forth on kingly throne.

White and black are not colours

With which we take samples 

Of the good and the bad.

White is sanity, black, strength.

Throw away this veil and paint your face

With black shades

For nothing beats the smile

Of a black man.

Yours so black,

Oni Oluwatomiwa Olanrewaju

EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

Title: DEAR RACIST

I am black, i am African

you're white, you're european

we share not a common

skin colour

so you treat me like a piece

of trash

at every turn, bitter and cruel

you're towards me, because

we're of not a common race

I am black, and you white

for that you detest my very

presence ... like a plague

your disdain for the colour

of my skin poses a great

threat to my existence

O'how much you hate me

like 'the devil' is written

all over me

I irritate you-yes, i know i do

the very aroma of my breath

appalls your senses.

for the colour of my skin, you

call me primitive ... you refer

to me as barbaric, and savagely

You say i am a beacon of irrationality:

bereft of reason, you say i am

but full of blank and nothingness

for this dark complexion i am

you say no virtue of me, only

blunder and propaganda

You behold me a retarded race

you've titled me an error of creation

alas i had to hid myself in the

shadows of the globe, that i may

evade the untold cruelty of your

humanity

even in my father's land, like a

rock upon a lamb you come to

break my life apart

Oh! See how you've divided my

life amongst your countrymen

and retarded my dignity of

personhood

i am black, and you white

so you treat me like a peasant

class citizen of the earth

todsing and poking me helter

skelter with utmost cruelty

O'dear racist, when shall you

see for me, as a human being

just like you're?

©EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA

November 30th, 2017

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