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The Black Christ

       By Don L. Lee

 

without a doubt

rome did the whi

te thing when it

killed

                         christ

it has been proven

that j.c. was non-whi

te in the darkest

way possible

                         black ink on whi

                         te paper

contradictions

from the west

ern cowboy

                         with two guns & music

                         written on paper with

                         black lines

it makes mary in---

to a first class

whore

 

john the bas

tard on

ly got people

wet

 

the cat

holic church cried

all the way to the

bank

                          most of the priests

                          are still in the

                          ghettos--pimping

                                                                        left the pope in

                                                                        a soup line on st.

                                                                        paul's day sold his

                                                                        gold filled teeth

                                                                        to a smiling jew

                                                                        riding on a black

                                                                        jackass

all the negro

preachers are driv

ing volkswagens & back

in night high school

                                                                        moses was hanged

                                                                        in effigy by

                                                                        smiling negroes

                                                                        tearing up the

                                                                        first commandment

judas became the

hero of the west

ern world & nick

named it lady bird

                               she got it from

                               a cat named parker                      

                                                                        she ain't been

                                                                        right since

off one god

can't get hooked

on another    elijah

                               negro & whi

                               te cops riding

                               each other in

                               dark ghettos

negro cops with

naturals & whi

te minded negroes

with natural wigs

                              more whi

                              te people read

                              ing fanon than

                              blacks

they know

 

all in sun trying

to get

black

                              man tan ain't

                              gone ta get it

                              you can't hide

 

                              tomorrow is here

 

history repeats

itself           ask

st. malcolm

 

all because j.c.

was a nigger

                              the only things

                              that didn't change

                              were his words

the world's best

seller

had sold out. (to bible reading eskimos)

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