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[title] => Slave Hands
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[bodytext] => My father gave me these hands and his fathers fathers father dig with these hands and, he preyed and sang with these hands Negro's spirituals about our motherland He used these hands to plant and seed He worked these hands until they'd bleed He'd use these hand to shield him from the heat And threw up these hands with that whip came to speak He scarred these hands so I wouldn't forget proof of the price that he's paid for it Martin Luther preached with these hands wrote his speech with these hands Malcolm taught with these hands spread knowledge and taught with these hands Rosa Park stead fast said "unhand me young man" "despite your demand" "this seat here is mine till I resign it young man" Brothers and Sisters we proclaim with these hands clinched fist Black Power in these lands Until our voices tremble Nigerian Sands My father gave me these hands the hands of slaves [comments] => 1 [counter] => 274 [topic] => 38 [informant] => allidoiswrite82 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Tributes )
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