<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Awaiting For a Black History Date</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those awaiting for a Black History date, <br>To express their appreciation...<br>For contributions their own kind make.<br>Are those trying to find, <br>Approval for these acts.<br>That had been laid and placed in past decades...<br>For the chance to enhance and romance, <br>Deeds done to eliminate...<br>The sweat endured to produce the facts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how can a 'Black History'...<br>Take just a few days, <br>To confirm any of that? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To gather to celebrate the lives of these folks...<br>Should be done on a daily basis.<br>And not when just provoked.<br>Or joked when adorning attire...<br>Meant to invoke a connection that inspires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is difficult to live each day as it is...<br>In a society that has done its best, <br>To disavow the truth as it is lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And taking one month to proclaim one's identity...<br>Seems a waste of time.<br>When people rather wine and dine.<br>Especially if thoughts are not carried around...<br>With a discipline within that is deep down.<br>Or with an integrity that does not disappear...<br>Before Spring has yet to begin! <br>And the Winter cold and snow...<br>Has from steps safely cleared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'm Black and I'm proud! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No doubt.<br>But...<br>When? <br>What time of the year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what are you wearing...<br>Before those thoughts of yours, <br>Come to an end.<br>Hmmm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433065" data-title="Awaiting For a Black History Date de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Those awaiting for a Black History date, To express their appreciation... For contributions their own kind make. Are those trying to find, Approval for these acts. That had been laid and placed in past decades... For the chance to enhance and ro..."></div> </div> </div>

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