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Poem: We Started From Bottom, Why Are We Still Here?

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008, pictured) was a Francophone poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was “one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature.” He wrote such works as “A Tempest,” a response to Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” and “Discourse on Colonialism,” an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.

The movement is VERY much alive; it is still alive today for divided we have been in order to be conquered. Victorious we are as we rebuild, reconnect, and today we refuse to be divided!

Aimé Césaire, we want to thank you for your stance; you saw what you and your contemporaries went through and wrote about what we have faced: racism. This world was rebuilt to deter us from reaching our dreams, but today we reach our fullest potentials. The world’s apex, our pinnacle.

We are FREE, you wrote in order to liberate the enslaved in thinking and move the marginalized ones. Our Mind is emancipated and we are holding on to this torch you have passed on…. We salute you and Léopold Sédar Senghor for your visions.

Liberated minds of Humans who were once called “slaves,” “Natives,” or “Colonized” —  will these invaders be aware of our UNITY as we spread our innovative pan-African beliefs? Indeed, we are here as one. This cultural expansion is for a better tomorrow and greater good. This is the Gospel of our New Africa.

Christian Djimra Koumtog

Christian Djimra Koumtog was born on April 7th, 1984 in the capital of the Republic of Chad called N'djamena. He is the 5th of 10 children on his Father's side and the first of five children on his Mother's side. Christian has dabbled with modeling and soccer, and he tried out professionally for the MLS for the Kansas City Sporting but now he is dedicated to Poetry. Christian's sense of activism is an everyday matter, from the way he carries himself to writing and promoting this beautiful art called "Poetry. " Recently, Christian has been performing as a way to reach out to people (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKfUhJ4BJ8). As a Poet, he not only wants to convey what he feels but also express what you, the reader, feels.

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  • SLAVERY IS OVER - BLACKS NEED TO GET OVER IT.

    SAYS WHO? - Stop the Rhetoric and read the original United States Constitution, the ratifications and or amendments -SLAVERY was never abolished and it has never been written that people of color were free not even in the 13th. Amendment, but you can’t only read it you must comprehend what you have read, it reads as this……..

    Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by “appropriate” Legislation.

    After the 13th, 14th, and 15th. Amendments were adopted A host of new Supremacy Laws and harsh Black Code were put into place and implemented that criminalize people of color as well the implementation of unfair Federal minimum low wages at slave labor standards that made the United States of America one big united states plantation of mass incarceration that Civil Rights Attorney’s, Constitutionalist, Civil Rights Organizations, and self appointed leaders have allowed to stand as Law unchallenged for (150) years while inciting people of color to march, protest, riot, and or publicly demonstrate civil unrest destroying communities they have to live in while repeating unsupported patriotic dogma and singing “We shall Overcome” expecting different results.

    Ambiguous Supremacy laws as written are defined as the majority of Supreme Court Justices Interprets them, most appeasement amendments and ratifications have never been implemented or enforced in the United States and many times nullified by the interpretation of Supremacy Laws such as the [1866, 1957, and 1964] Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of [1965] invalidated [2010] Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission and [2013] United States Supreme Court gutted key provisions from the [1965] Voting Rights Act.

  • That's because we haven't left the bottom. It's where most of us are comfortable.

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