LEON

KWASI

(L2KA)
PRESENTS:

KUNTUO-ASARE

AMERICA DIVIDED
WE STAND?!

.POLITICAL AND SOCIAL POETRY.

Dedications:
This book is dedicated to my family who has always
encouraged me to write and think for myself and to the

teachers who helped educate me throughout my school

years.
Table of Contents
LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE (L2KA)...................................................................................1
PRESENTS:.....................................................................................................................................1
AMERICA DIVIDED WE STAND?!.............................................................................................2
.POLITICAL AND SOCIAL POETRY...........................................................................................2
Dedications:.....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Black crab syndrome:......................................................................................................................5
Gods message:................................................................................................................................6
Does God really exist?.............................................................................................................6
STILL OUR COLONIAL MASTERS:...........................................................................................7
NEOCOLONIAL HATE:................................................................................................................8
Will Africa be free?........................................................................................................................10
Dark vs. Light:...............................................................................................................................11
All-American gangsta:...................................................................................................................12
The Roman Grind:.........................................................................................................................14
Mom is God:..................................................................................................................................15
U.S. Policy:....................................................................................................................................16
Big Brother:...................................................................................................................................17
YOURE A MONKEY!.................................................................................................................18
Losing everything to the corrupt rich:..........................................................................................19
Why do I over eat?.........................................................................................................................20
Fathers name:................................................................................................................................21
Land of the U.S.A:.........................................................................................................................22
Beware of the great speaker:..........................................................................................................23
Democracy LLC............................................................................................................................24
War Crimes:...................................................................................................................................26
The best form of slavery:...............................................................................................................27
The best pimps:..............................................................................................................................28
The Drake Hotel:...........................................................................................................................29
Roman Empire By Another Name:................................................................................................30
Hard life:........................................................................................................................................32
Were all human beings:................................................................................................................33
American Refugee:........................................................................................................................35
MR.EUROPE RAPING MOTHER AFRICA...............................................................................36
Mama dont lie (pimp son):...........................................................................................................37
God?...............................................................................................................................................38
Mother:..........................................................................................................................................39
Mr. Idealist:....................................................................................................................................40

Diamonds:......................................................................................................................................41
Africas European Cloud:..............................................................................................................42
Letter to President Obama:............................................................................................................43
Depression:....................................................................................................................................44
Rent is Past due:.............................................................................................................................45
TWO PARTIES ONE PROBLEM:...............................................................................................46
From the gutter to the promise land :.............................................................................................47
Man in my Mirror:.........................................................................................................................49
THE CAGE FIGHTER!................................................................................................................50
Im broke and it is not a joke:........................................................................................................52
SAN FRANCISCO DREAMS!.....................................................................................................54
Welfare killed the black revolution:...............................................................................................56
OBAMA BUT SAME DRAMA:...................................................................................................57
A kings Dream!.............................................................................................................................58
The Puppet News:..........................................................................................................................59
The American fantasy:...................................................................................................................60
My moment of silence:..................................................................................................................61
Home of the slaves:.......................................................................................................................62
Enjoy life:......................................................................................................................................63
I pledge allegiance:........................................................................................................................64
No spoil to the turmoil:..................................................................................................................65
POLI-TICS:...................................................................................................................................66
change 2008 Obama:.....................................................................................................................67
Youre in the 99%:.........................................................................................................................68
TAKE MY GUNS AND LIBERTY:..............................................................................................69
Bring back the sistas with the natural hair:....................................................................................70
NSA GOT EYES ON WE:............................................................................................................71
TELL A YOUNG BLACK MAN HIS HISTORY:........................................................................73
Blacker the berry:..........................................................................................................................75
AFRICA MUST UNITE:...............................................................................................................76
MY ARCH ENEMY (CRABS):....................................................................................................77
IF NIGGAS WERE UNITED:......................................................................................................78
WERE STILL SLAVES:..............................................................................................................80
OBAMA THE GREAT PROFIT:..................................................................................................82
NOT MARTINS DREAM:...........................................................................................................85
All-AMERICAN DREAM? (THE U.S. SOLDIER):....................................................................87
EPILOGUE....................................................................................................................................90
NOT REALLY BLACK POEM?:.................................................................................................90
ABOUT AUTHOR:.......................................................................................................................93

Introduction:
When I decided to write America: divided we
stand, I not only wanted to make a powerfully
written politically statement, but I wanted to do it in
a cool artistic way that would give a rich soulfulness,
sense of humor and realness to many social and
political issues, that would not only make people

laugh, but do it while educating them on political

events, social issues and history that they may not of
even heard of before they read my book. This book
is a collection of some of my favorite poems that I
have written over the last four years (2010-2014) of
my life. Since I originally started writing some of
these poems, my views may have changed, as does
everything in life with new experiences and
maturity. In fact as youre reading you will probably
notice that as you begin to read some of my latter
poetry, that they to some degree conflict with some
of my earlier poems. That being said life is about
progression and poetry is about expression of that
progression, so to all who will read this book, I hope
you have at least half as much fun reading it as I
have had writing it, so enjoy and start reading
poetry!

Black crab syndrome:

what happened to our people many years ago, we
as a people continue to do to each other today.
THE MAN (the system of white supremacy) can
Sit down, get some popcorn and enjoy as we fight
like crabs in a barrel or lunatics full of rage in the
UFC cage

Actually slavery and colonialism ended many years

ago but slavery and colonialism of the brain
continues to this day just as it did in its evil heyday!

Gods message:
Does God really exist?
Christian, Muslims and Jews over the centuries have
massacred each other claiming they have the one true
message.
Does God really exist?

Would he really want his children terrorizing each other,

over interpretation of his message
Does God really exist?
If so would he want his word spread by men that have sex
with kids, commit genocide and ethnic cleanse
Does God really exist?
If he does, he has to be shaking his heavenly head and Im
sure he is pissed!

STILL OUR COLONIAL MASTERS:

Its not all our leaders fault, they allow themselves to
be bought
Every one that stands up has been taken out, so if
we truly want our freedom, we must go to war and
shout

But not with our guns or fist, since they are rendered
useless against the matrix
We will have to use our minds if we want to have
any chance of getting from under our neocolonial
masters fist!

NEOCOLONIAL HATE:
Anger, hate and rage pours through my veins
If I am lucky I will see the neocolonialist scream in
financial and political pain
Then will come the black Africans reign?

Will Africa be free?

Will Africa be free?

Will white Europe let us go?

Matrix will fall soon?

Dark vs. Light:

What is the difference between dark and light
Why do you think you are so different than I

Less different and more the same, two people who

have experienced the same pain
Never forget the fact that were both black
Me dark and youre light
Fate has served us the exact plight, so why do we
fight over something that is not right
When we both were once terrorized by the same
hooded cowards, who did their wickedness in the
shadows like roaches in the night!

All-American gangsta:
This poem is for all the real American gangstas

Not those hip hop wankstas

Im not talking about Dmx and the Ruff Ryders, the
lox, 50 cent, Lil Wayne or even Tupac
Im not even talking about Stanley Tookie
Williams, Larry Hoover, Chaz Williams or even the
Detroit Chamber brothers
The real American gangstas are some truly bad
motherfuckers
Im talking about A.I.G, bank of America, Angelo
Mozilo of countrywide, Goldman Sachs, those are
the true pimps and macks of America
Nicky Barnes aint got shit on them
Gangsta rappers claim they are from the streets to
get street cred and get suburban fans cash
But after watching the downfall of the worlds
economy on TV

I know the true American gangstas really are from

the streets, but those streets are not in Detroit or
Compton, the most ruthless gangstas come from the
streets of New York
But Im not talking about the Bronx, Im talking
about Wallstreet
You telling me I could go to prison for 10 years for
having a kilo of coke on me, yet these C.E.0s,
bankers
Real Estate fraud artist, can rob and bankrupt this
country and walk away Scott free
Damn I got to take my hat off to those cats because
that is some gangsta ass shit to me!

The Roman Grind:

Rome was not created in one day

But created by conquering one village and tribe at a
time
So I must take my time
Get on my grind in keep in mind

That accomplishing my goals will come in time, if I

stay focus on my black mans grind!

Mom is God:
I know there is a god because I have seen her with
my own eyes
I know she is god because she gave me life when she
pushed me through her thighs!

U.S. Policy:
I hate to hurt your feelings, about the illegal U.S
dealings
But the U.S fought Iraq for oil, the war of Iraqi
freedom was a lie
That even the biggest fools cant deny
Besides there is genocide going on inside Darfur
A whole race of people being wiped out and put
through hell by Islamic terrorist cells
But the U.S and the superpowers will not fight
because their money lender China already owns
Sudans oil rights!

Big Brother:
Big brother, me and him our closer than the closest
lovers
Since we were kids he had my back through a
bundle of struggles
So who needs a guardian angel when you have a big
older brother!

YOURE A MONKEY!
Youre a monkey
Is something that has been said many times to me
Not by the so-called Caucasian white-devil enemies
But by members of the American-Negroid race
family
Who passed down their white washed self-hate to
me
The same way my Ghanaian father passed down his
regal African history to me!

Losing everything to the corrupt rich:

Losing everything
The poor to the corrupt rich
Yet they continue to vote for them
The underclass voting for rich republicans, is like
flies eating shit, even though they hate the after taste
of it
Yet they blame a half black president for their
misfortunes, maybe one day I will understand this?

Why do I over eat?

I over eat, day after day, week after week
I tell myself this meal is going to be my last feast
Made large enough for four men, but it is only eaten
by me
Food has become my drug, when no one is there to
comfort me, fast food gives me my hugs
I have become a junk food addict, every time I see it
or smell it I must have it
I know I say this every day but hopefully tomorrow I
can bring an end to my madness!

Fathers name:
Honor my father
Honor his wonderful name
Same for my mother, she carried me for nine months
and suffered several hours of labor pain!

Land of the U.S.A:

The land of the free
The so called home of the brave
The land of the middle class slaves!

Beware of the great speaker:

He became a great speaker and people gave him
their minds
He became a hero of the people and the people gave
him their love
He became a savior of the people and the sheeple
gave him their freedom!

Democracy LLC.
God bless America the home of the brave, the land
of the free
All things are possible in this super-duper great U.S
of A
Red, white and blue country
Well, not if you have no money, because then no one
cares about what you have to say

So pray in god we trust, but no one especially

corrupt politicians or C.E.Os give a flying fuck if
you dont have those green bucks
Black, red, yellow, brown, white
Straight, bi, gay, dyke
We all share the same plight in this democracy LLC
And for that I cannot lie
We all are just some broke ass niggas trying to get
by!

War Crimes:
War crimes, I always seem to laugh and smile when
that subject comes around
Because isnt war by definition a murderous crime
Yet the super powers never get charged war after
war time after time
Their leaders walk free to set up third world puppet
democracies

To be run by the west the same way the U.S.A is ran

by mega companies!

The best form of slavery:

The best form of slavery is the slavery that allows its
slaves to think their free
Otherwise known as democracy
Which is ruled over by gigantic international
corporate and banking monopolies, which are more
powerful than most monarchies!

The best pimps:

The best pimps are not Don Magic Juan or Pimpin
Ken but the Washington D.C politicians
Who employ over 300 million hoes also known as
citizens to solicit for them
From day break to day end!

The Drake Hotel:

Working the front door at the Sir Francis Drake hotel
Tourists say to me all the time, this is such a lovely
hotel

I say to them, that is because you do not work here,

if you did it would be your personal hell!

Roman Empire By Another Name:

Great Britain, the only thing about her that is great is
her name
Youre an all-star MVP, neocolonialism is your
game

You are the Roman Empire, just under a more

modern name
But do not get too excited and hold your head too
high
Holland, France, USA, Spain, Portugal, Germany,
Italy, Turkey, China, ETC, you are guilty of doing
the exact same thing
Like a gold digging whore, you do not seem to be
capable of feeling shame for all the horrors youve
caused
Nothing but heart break, death, destruction and pain
is the remnants of your reign!

Hard life:
If something is easy
It usually means it is not worth doing
Since life is hard
That means it must be worth living!

Were all human beings:

In this world, we do not own or control, we all are in
this world together, no matter if we are human,
plants or animals
Like pollen that is eaten or spread by a colony of
bees

Like birds that use trees to house themselves and

feed and spread seeds that grow into new trees
We as human beings must realize we share the same
destiny, no differently despite our many languages,
religions, cultures and nationalities, in reality we are
of the same kin, and must work our grievances out,
like a family, even if it is a dysfunctional family!

American Refugee:
I am not an African-American
I am an American-Refugee
Born the descendant of slavery

My history has been made a mystery to me

Desegregation was not for us all to live as one in
unity
But only for blacks to give the white supremacist
community our money
As we stay far away in our crime, poverty stricken
and drug infested communities
Never to live as one, divided we stand!

MR.EUROPE RAPING MOTHER AFRICA.

Mr. Europe, youre back at it, sodomizing mother
Africa all over again, like you drank all her
resources too fast and now have the hiccups

Or an oil, gold and diamond thirsty demon in a

reoccurring horrific dream, or better yet a pimp that
cant let his hoes go
I cant say for sure but all I know is the world court
needs to put you on trial for committing worst
crimes than the Roman Catholic Church and their
Priest who moonlight as Pedophiles
There should be no need for an O.J Simpson bloody
glove or an R. Kelly sex tape, since even the late
great Ray Charles can see all the rape you have
committed to the once gorgeous but still beautiful
continent of Africa, 200 years ago to the current
date!

Mama dont lie (pimp son):

Mama dont lie, papa is really sick and pretty soon
he is going to die

Mama dont lie, you are having trouble paying the

bills, so I will recruit a team of hoes and send you
some money to get you by
Mama I cant lie, I am pretty scared and want to cry,
but I wont because I must stand strong by your side
as we pray and wait for these horrific economic
times to pass us by!

God?
Is there really God

If so are we the children of God or simply her pets

Or our we a far away alien civilizations lab rats?

Mother:
Mother is the name
The name of the creator
Also known as God
But I rather call her my mom!

Mr. Idealist:
Every man should strive to be idealistic
But as a man we have to understand to be realistic
about our ideals
And leave the fairy tales for the part of the species
that wears high heels!

Diamonds:
Diamonds shine so bright
Diamonds more valuable than an African childs life
Diamonds no matter the price, suburban wives still
crave the exotic rock on their wedding night
Diamonds cost African families their lives for a
diamond the size of a grain of rice
Diamonds are very affordable they only cost you an
African genocide!

Africas European Cloud:

If we Ghanaians our to live in a west African country
that is truly free of the dominating white European
cloud that has acid rained over us for centuries
Our fates must be determined by we the people
No different than any western democratic country
We must first start by educating each other
No matter our different dialects, customs, ethnic
groups and religions, we are all Ghanaians sisters
and brother, in the land fought for by our
grandfathers and grandmothers
A sad fact, a little over five decades since President
Kwame Nkrumah got our so called freedom in 1957,
we our handed our freedom right back!

Letter to President Obama:

Dear Mr. President Obama, congratulations on
winning the United States presidency
Everyone in my family voted for you including my
mama
I was pleased to watch on CNN
That on your first visit to Africa
You did not visit your fathers country of Kenya but
my fathers land of Ghana
So please dont be like your predecessors and start
some third world drama
You are a great man the antithesis of Bush, that was
a bad man, like Bonnie and Clyde, that white boy
was a crook!

Depression:
Depression I hate you and want to leave you, but I
cant
We seem to be forever intertwined like its our fate
I suppose I should stop fighting you and learn to
love you
Since I believe were destined to be forever soul
mates!

Rent is Past due:

Government agencies, corrupt politicians
C.E.Os steal my money, it is so messed up

and

I almost want to laugh, but the rent is a week past

due and I have no money
My life so far has been a joke but its not funny!

TWO PARTIES ONE PROBLEM:

The two party American political system is not the
Solution when most our politicians do the bidding
For the same billion dollar corporate institutions
Which possess more control over our United-States
Government than the American constitution!

From the gutter to the promise land :

The gutter is where I stand, the promise land is
where I strive to be
With a mind full of hopes and dreams
That I want to make real and not just fantasy
My four fathers Martin Luther King JR., Malcolm
X, Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings, decades
ago fought for my people and me
But all I see in the streets is thuggery and greed
Even if I cant save all my people
I will make sure my four fathers dreams live
through me

We have come From the slave house, the colonial

masters house, the crack house and now the Obama
white house
And still I get profiled by cops and security when I
leave my house
Even though I work smart and study like an
intellectual Spartan, yet society still looks at me just
like another Trayvon Martin
Just looking for another black man to shoot, walking
while black I guess will be their excuse!

Man in my Mirror:
The man in the mirror is my hero, in a world full of
zeros more sadistic than Nero
I was a child when I accompanied him to close the
family shop
Only to witness blood spatter everywhere from his
head when I saw him get shot
The lord saved my father that night to continue to be
a blessing in my life
My father is a miracle to my life like the birth of
Jesus Christ

It is a beautiful inspiration to my life when I see

your sight as I look at the mirror at the end of the
night!

THE CAGE FIGHTER!

I fight because my mom and dad did not teach me
how to take flight
I became a cage fighter to make the lives of my
family and me a lot brighter
This economy has me knowing I have to get my
messed up life together
Because I am much better than what I have
accomplished
When I am focused theres no telling what I can
accomplish

My brother told me I need to handle my business

man! and become a businessman
I think maybe Kwasi inc.
I prefer legit but if not Ill make my money illegally
like the white man and climb to the top
Be it selling Wallstreet stocks or having a snow
bunny for a whore selling her wet hot box
Hell right now I dont give a fuck
My father came here from Ghana to make a better
life for his family, something like looking for a
better destiny
But since Ive been alive I have always struggled to
survive
From seeing my father get shot in my face to me
having to stab two niggas trying to rob me for all the
money I have in my safe

Im not a thug but if you try to hurt my family or me

I will always have a few slugs to turn a no good evil
thug into a dove!

Im broke and it is not a joke:

Im broke and it is not a joke
Every day I woke to bills, bills, bills
Not the old destinys child song
But my own, I need to get my shit together and
handle my business song
Because unlike Beyonce, I am not destinys child
but unfortunates son
Its not going to be long, every 2nd check

I have to send my old man and old lady some

money
Because despite their age and education
I guess even college educated colored folks balance
their budget like dummies and if it isnt them
Its my cousins in Ghana trying to get money or
gifts from me
Because they watch Americas bling-bling hip hop
make believe lifestyle on Africas MTV and believe
everyone in this red, white and blue country has
money growing on trees,
Damn
Family broke here, family broke there, it seems like
my family is broke everywhere!

SAN FRANCISCO DREAMS!

Here is where a proud person once stood
She now smells like concentrated urine and garbage
and she is so misunderstood
By everyone who turns their back on her
When she sleeps on the sidewalk in their upper-class
neighborhood
Which is only two blocks away from the crime and
drug infested hood

Gone is the hope for tomorrow, dope is the tool that

ends her pain and sorrow
But only for a few moments then she starts the
whole cycle over again tomorrow!

Welfare killed the black revolution:

The 1960s black revolution for an equal destiny
Was killed by the false belief of equality of the
1990s
Because white politicians gave blacks welfare to
prevent any possible chance of black warfare
Blacks content with less as long as they get their
welfare checks

Even our black leaders have sold their souls for

corporate checks
But what would you expect from modern day pimps
and macks
While their followers rot away in the ghetto like a
thrown away mess!

OBAMA BUT SAME DRAMA:

Obama same drama as Bush
The same crooked policies as the Bush presidency
The only difference is he has a far better natural tan
that he acquired from his fathers land!

A kings Dream!
A king named Martin Luther JR.
Once had a dream in America
Over 40 years since his assassination have past
So does his dream exist in America

Or are we as a nation still make believing and

dreaming in America?

The Puppet News:

Is network news really news
Maybe the old school news of my parents day
But not the news of my day

Which allows corporate giants to misuse it

For great profits
They will manipulate the public like puppets
Left wingers, right wingers populous fight each
other over the political elite doctrines, like misfits
Holding themselves and their cause back
As the elite of both wings feast on gigantic profits
As we the people eat the stinky spoiled remains of a
decaying system, like maggots!

The American fantasy:

The American dream is all but a fallacy
For those in the hood with lovely African skin like
me

Obama was nice, but even the so-called first black

president cant by himself change his peoples
plight!

My moment of silence:
In my moment of silence, I could not stay silent
Mentally, there was traffic in my mind, all I

Could think about is what I need to take care of in

My life
It was not stressful but peaceful, just a time to reflect
On what Ive done and what I need to get done!

Home of the slaves:

America the home of the brave, formerly the land of
Slave, now the free?

If you are in the richest 1% percent and have truck

Loads of money
If you do not get back in the line of the soup kitchen
And keep it quiet dummy, because money talks and
Bullshit walks in this in god we trust country!

Enjoy life:
Enjoy all the goodness of life and live to the fullness

Live without regret and dont put a lot in other

peoples respect
Since heaven may not even exist
So in a thousand years who is really going to give a
shit!

I pledge allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of

The matrix
And to the republic INC. for which it profits, one
Nation under wallstreet, indivisible with liberty and
Justice for all, that own property, stocks, bonds, land
etc.

No spoil to the turmoil:

There will be no spoil to all the devastating turmoil

For the meek and impoverished on foreign soil
When money is to be made on stolen oil
Because no war has ever been fought to set a
enslaved people free
But only to make the superpowers some bucks that
are green!

POLI-TICS:
The populous is being sucked dry by blood sucking
creatures
From the Roman coliseum to todays football
stadium bleachers
We are being sold a bunch of lies, no different than
Keanu Reeves in the Matrix feature!

change 2008 Obama:

Change Obama 2008
The only thing that has changed is the color of the
puppeteer that was elected to control our fate
I thank all my brothers and sisters of all races that
rushed to the poll places
And voted for hope but nope
Weve been duped as we wait on our metaphoric
stoop for the next election
To re-elect the savior of the banks
So, once again Obama thanks!

Youre in the 99%:

Voting republican when youre not in the richest 1%
But the poorest 99
Should be considered a logical crime
Punishable by a kick in the ass
Yet, some of the poorest whites do it all the time
Because politicians give them the same old lines of
Jesus, guns and your broke ass can come up over
time
Yet leaving out the facts that the richest and most
influential American families like the Kennedys and
the Rockefellers came up by fucking over many
people and committing horrendous crimes!

TAKE MY GUNS AND LIBERTY:

We need to take your guns the government said so
innocently
So safe and without violent-crime society will be
We will protect you and insure your safety
The government policy peddler said to my fellow
Americans and me
Your taxes will not go up
Your upgraded security is almost free
The only thing we must demand from thee is the
meager fee
That will only consist of your personal liberty!

Bring back the sistas with the natural hair:

Bring back the sistas with the natural hair

From dark chocolate to fair
Who in the 1960s, if they saw a weave they would
of despised it
And proudly wore their unique and gorgeousAfrican crown and did not care if a white
supremacist liked it!

NSA GOT EYES ON WE:

NSA today, COINTELPRO yesterday with the

exception of the colorful man in charge
Nixon or nigga, not a damn thing but the time has
changed
Government has been breaking more laws than all
the combined street gangs
Yet unlike Tookie Williams, no jail time happens
because even when theyre awake, like ignorant
children the citizens are napping!

TELL

YOUNG

BLACK

MAN

HIS

HISTORY:
Take away the cloud of mystery and tell a young
black man the history
Of his ancestors conquest and empires
With that knowledge he knows he can conquer
every one of his desires like the glory days of the
Asante empire
If you lie and tell him something like blacks are
inferior and in this world they have created nothing

Hell educate you about the great kingdom of

Timbuktu
When you tell him since two years after 1863 blacks
have been free, yet they are still living in poverty
Hell tell you that blacks had millionaires in black
wallstreet when the great depression had whites
living on the filthy city streets
And the only thing that was able to slow down the
American Negro was the FBI and COINTELPRO
But Obama proved theres nowhere a determined
Negro cant go!

Blacker the berry:

Blacker the berry sweeter the juice is something that
in this day, needs to be preached to the black youth
To refute in their minds all the negative images they
see on cable and broadcast T.V
About blacks being ugly, stupid and pretty much
anything that justifies their view of our inferiority
Gone are the images of our rich Nubian (Kush
dynasties) history, only movies by Hollywood being
made about our history is about slavery

Making our self-esteem lower than the morale of the

worst NBA team
That is why blacker the berry sweeter the juice is
something that needs to be preached to the youth!

AFRICA MUST UNITE:

Like the words spoken by the legendary Bob Marley
Africa must unite
To the soul of the leader of the movement of the
African Freedom fight
Kwame Nkrumah that would bring such delight
In the hearts and minds of western slave masters

It will bring so much fright

Because for their success Africa, must have a
divided disastrous plight!

MY ARCH ENEMY (CRABS):

My arch enemy is not a pasty face member of the
human species
But a young dark and handsome brother from the
hood like me
Programmed with several generations of self-hate
So like crabs in a barrel, they try to drag me down

So that I can share his same sad fate by repeating his

same failures and mistakes!

IF NIGGAS WERE UNITED:

If niggas stopped fighting and started uniting, to the
top of the world we could be rising
Instead of barely surviving
If niggas killed the ill will between us by destroying
out poisoned hearts self-hate we could finally take
control of our own fate

Instead of putting our welfare and safety in the

hands of a government that still utilizes systematic
slavery
Be it the cotton field, corporate prison yard or the
sports field
If we ever want to overcome the Donald Sterlings
of the world, and for us by us we want our fate
Decided then we must stop being so divided
Then there would be no one that could stop us, in the
promiseland we could be thriving, instead of living
in the slums barely surviving!

WERE STILL SLAVES:

We all are just slaves from black to white, we all
share a dreaded plight
By the greedy hands of the man
We have been forced into slavery
Be it literally when Blacks and Hispanics are forced
into the industrialized prison complex that gives
stockholders huge dividends as they give the dark
skin people huge sentences at the same time rich

white peoples cases for the same crime get

dismisses
Figuratively we all are victims to the dreaded system
of slavery
Cant pay your mortgage, maybe your bills
Welcome to financial hell
As you become homeless and maybe jobless
Now youre sleeping next to the people you used to
give spare change to
But unlike the car companies and banks
There is no Obama with bailout money to rescue us
from our mistakes!

OBAMA THE GREAT PROFIT:

In 2008 Americans falsely we believed we the
people elected a bronze skin and hair of wool
prophet
Turns out big business selected a beastly puppet to
help them turn a big profit
Extreme liberals were blind in their unthinking love
Extreme conservatives were blind in their racist hate

We the American people took the bait as greedy

politicians distracted U.S. the sleeping citizen sheep
for the elites
Who sacrificed our, the American peoples fate
Just for they could have a meaningless birth
certificate debate
While overnight they stripped always many of our
constitution rights
Fast and furiously tried to take away some of our
most tactical guns
While attempting to turn this country into a police
state
Making it a crime to be a patriotic whistleblower
like Snowden, Manning or the creator of Wikileaks
While silencing the mainstream media so much they
are now meek and will preach whatever the powers
that be demand they speak

Forced many to buy affordable healthcare they can

barely afford while at the same time struggling to eat
So forget about the American dream of saving
money and one day becoming an economic elite
like the middle American belief
If Martin Luther king was alive today
What has become of his I have a dream fantasy
would have him crying himself to sleep!
OBAMA CARE:
Obama cares for the economic elite
Obama cares for his campaign donors corporate
greed
Obama cares for anyone with huge sums of money
Even though droves of poor minorities voted for
him like dummies

That must be why Obama does not care about people

living in poverty like you or me
Because even if he does nothing that he promises,
people like you or me will continue to vote for his
party religiously!

NOT MARTINS DREAM:

Obama at first seemed like Martin Luthers dream
But to Dr. Kings despair he has revealed himself to
be Americas nightmare
He promised Americans change but his international
policies to say the least have been a little deranged

Silencing free speech whenever whistleblowers

attempt to speak
He sold U.S. on hope, but that was only his bad joke
Because he has committed more crimes against
humanity than the biggest cartels dope
He was such a letdown that if I called him
fraudulent, that would be a compliment
He was not the first black president but the first
openly corporate owned president, Barack Bank of
America-Monsanto Obama
He helped turn the U.S. constitution into nothing
more than a solution to wipe his lying 1% a$$!

All-AMERICAN

DREAM?

(THE

U.S.

SOLDIER):
I left this country to serve overseas, I am the real all
American dream

I dont need the NCAA to tell me that, like

Einsteins theory of relativity, it has long been
proven as fact
I have now comeback home to parades, after battling
terrorists in firefights and surviving bloody sand
soaked raids
Who am I?
Whats my name?
I am the home of the brave and my name is the land
of the free
I may only be a just out of high school kid in the
infantry
But I embody the true spirit of democracy
So why when I come back home after the parades
and welcome home celebrations end
Do you disappear like ghosts or better yet scatter
like roaches when the lights come on

Especially after the war is over is when I need my

fellow citizens the most
Yet you pass me by like Im a freak on the streets
Because post-traumatic stress has punctured my
mind like an enemys sniper 50cal bullet through a
U.S.A military certified Kevlar vest
It seems to me that the support the troops bullshit is
just a fucking meaningless slogan
Something like good luck, just some lame ass
bullshit you say to some down on his luck schmuck
To make yourself feel better bullshit, not to make
matters any better real shit
If you really want to support the troops, dont worry
about the catchy stickers and slogans
But give me a chance at a job, give me the posttraumatic stress treatment I need and just try to be a
genuine friend to me

Thats all I need

The support the troops stickers are cool
But what I really need is for you to fight for me in
the U.S.A, the same way I fought for your freedom
thousands of miles away!

EPILOGUE

NOT REALLY BLACK POEM?:

Youre not really black, my white friend told me just
like that
I did not get angry, I did not get upset, I just asked
him could he please clarify that?
He responded with what he believed to be his
educated facts:
listen dawg your mama is a social worker and your
papa is a retired business man from Ghana
Youre in college and you dont speak that ghetto
street smack like American blacks, so I dont
consider you black.

What went through my mind was damn, my friend is

sadly mistaken and actually believes his comments
area compliment
I replied: well dawg maybe you got some bad
information but the black Negroid race is not a white
American Ghetto creation
In fact we have created some of the worlds greatest
civilizations from the ancient Abyssinia and Nubian
(Kush) dynasties in east Africa to the more modern
Asante in the west
So what you thought was a compliment was a
blatant form of disrespect
But I will not hold it against you
At least not yet
You see I know you like me were raised watching
MTV and B.E.T, but what you have to realize is that
what is on most gangster rap cds is just some
farfetched studio hood movie fantasy

Because in actuality that bling-bling Hennessy

bottle poppin, thug-life lifestyle, is about a
thousand miles away from reality
So dont get me misunderstood I grew up in the
hood, but I left Detroit as soon as I could to get my
papa and mama in Detroit out of the hood and to get
my family in Ghana living like they should
I am going to need to make some bling-bling and
because I cant do a lot of the black guy stereotypes,
like play basketball, rap or sing, I will have to make
my green by earning my university business degree,
because I dont like the thug-life insurance policy!

ABOUT AUTHOR:
Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare is an up and coming
poet, writer and artist currently living in San
Francisco, California, but originally from Detroit ,
Michigan. He is the son of a Ghanaian entrepreneur
father and a social worker mother. Even though he is
the first of his family to publish a book of political
poetry, he is not the only person in his family to have
an interest in politics or social issues, he has an
uncle (Seth Amoama) and two cousins (Mary and
Stephen Kuntuo-Asare) who all have worked for the
United Nations in the past. When it comes to writing
political poetry, his philosophy is its a historians job
to tell the black and white facts about historical

people and events, but it is a poets job to add color

to that history with his/her emotionally driven
words, that give a sense of how people felt at that
time in history, so that future generations can learn
from it and hopefully not repeat the same mistakes.