{"id":1708,"date":"2013-02-25T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:06:41","slug":"where-is-the-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/where-is-the-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE IS THE BLACK MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/em>\u00a0Mervis Miller\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Where is the Black Man? SHhh…<\/p>\n

I was in the Motherland of Africa, running gaily and free;Loving, Living, and Hunting, just being me. And then The Stranger came and befriended me. He took me under the cloak of falsehood, from what was good. I didn’t get the vision of the glorified, Statue of Liberty. I was in Massachusetts in 1775, when I gave my life,just to keep my kids alive. I was in the north joining the Union Army, I was in the South picking cotton, thinking about the motherland, not yet forgotten.<\/p>\n

Where is the Black Man? SHhh…<\/p>\n

I was in Washington D.C. When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n

Now I wonder why I was not emancipated under the July fourth Independence<\/p>\n

Declaration. Freedom, a word hard to come my way, DAMN; even to this day. I was in Tennessee when The Stranger assassinated Martin Luther King, still I await the day that we can hold hands and together we’ll sing. I was in Vietnam, killing a people in a foreign country, when in my own I do not know where I am.<\/p>\n

Where is the Black Man? SHhh…<\/p>\n

I was buying houses, having families and owning property throughout the seventies in almost every state. Then The Stranger took the reigns, turned the economy upside down, made the rich, richer; the poor, poorer; and children grew in hate. I was in Panama, Grenada,Kuwait and through Iraq; creating death and destruction in every step having not an inkling of knowledge whether I would be one to come back.<\/p>\n

Where is the Black Man? SHhh…<\/p>\n

I was in Los Angeles on March 3rd<\/sup> 1991, when The Stranger beat me unmercifully under the \u201cCover of Darkness\u201d and the \u201cColor of Authority\u201d and the \u201cShield of Protection\u201d and the motto of \u201cProtect and Serve.\u201d I was in America on April 29th<\/sup> 1992 when The Stranger brought to light the verdict that said, \u201cIt is not safe for the BLACK MAN’S whereabouts to be known.<\/p>\n

PSSST… Where is the Black Man? I’M…SHHHHHH…
\nWritten by
\nMervis J. Miller,I.
\nJune 1st<\/sup> 1992
\nJanuary 20, 2009 \u2026 I Am In America!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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