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Back-stab your daddy / brother, cousin, grandmomma too.

What else is there to do / if I need another fix of fame?

 
 

 

Book by Jeannette Drake

 

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook

 

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Middle Passage

      (After Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.)

 

                             By Jeannette Drake

 

Cameras clicking.

Numbers flipping.

Blood's dripping.

 

We know about pain,

priestly Pharisaic gain.

Colored Negro African Black

American yo' momma shame.

 

Back-stab your daddy

brother, cousin, grandmomma too.

What else is there to do

if I need another fix of fame?

 

If I go down, you do too.

This boat's a rocking.

I ain't Jesus and neither are you.

 

The mask I wear streaks red, white and blue!

1 May 2008 

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Jeannette Drake, a licensed clinical social worker, specializes in Dream and Expressive work in group settings. She has conducted individual and group sessions with adults, adolescents and children in schools, colleges, hospitals, prisons, churches, shelters, and art galleries as case worker, counselor, psychotherapist, teacher, tutor, and writer.

Her writings have been published in Honey Hush! An Anthology of African American Writer's Humor, Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts & Letters, The Southern Review, New Virginia Review, The Book of Hope & The World Healing Books, The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, Richmond Free Press, Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers, DisabilityWorld, a bilingual international web-zine and other journals and magazines.

 

She has performed as a gospel soloist, acted in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and leads a monthly book discussion and creative writing group at her church.

Her visual art has been exhibited at Richmond City Hall, the Carillon at Byrd Park and the Richmond Public Library (July 1-August 3, 2005).

A graduate of Hampton University and Virginia Commonwealth University,  she lives in Richmond.

 May 2005

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook

By Jeannette Drake

Journey Within: A Healing Playbook is a fun tool for anyone interested in personal growth, learning how to be more creative or gaining a deeper insight into The Divine. Section One includes 13 original color abstracts that invite the viewer to intentionally go on a playful, inner journey. An optional guide of play instructions is included.

In Section Two the author's spiritual autobiography provides an inspirational explanation for each drawing.

This Book Is for Someone You Love!

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The White Masters of the World

From The World and Africa, 1965

By W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)

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Ancient African Nations

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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan  /  The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll  /  Only a Pawn in Their Game

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updated  9 January 2009

 

 

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