Be Proud Chocolate
🎵“Be proud chocolate, it's from you that they get their style
Be proud chocolate, Black Queen with your Nubian smile
You have been so strong for so long
Since back in the day our backbone
Be proud chocolate, chocolate girl be proud” 🎶
Simon K. Thomas
DALL-E 4 \ visual representation of a modern Nubian queen, blending ancient heritage with a contemporary setting, surrounded by abundant trees and roots, with birds flying high and free in the background.
Born with freedom in our lungs
So it's uncommon when we can't pour out the sweet nectar of our souls
But somehow the songs of slaves grew sweeter
The more men shackled them to the earth
The higher they ascended in melodies the world had never heard.
It was the secret song.
The Sunday shout that gave us rock & roll, the blues and Jazz.
Their sweat watered the seeds of a different freedom
And God gave them sunshine in the midst of dark times and hatred
Though they were bound by law they soared in symphony filled skies,
Lied down on melodramatic clouds
And then tapped danced to raindrops of rhythms no man had ever heard
We showed ourselves, you can't take a people's voice if you truly think about it
You can shackle them, beat them, legislate them, kill them, bomb them, red line them
But they'll come alive in some way unpredictable
Like, how does this greenery grow through heavy concrete?
Black was handicapped but it never stopped moving
Because rhythm and invention
Redefinition and reconstruction runs through our veins
Black.
Bury them
Black.
Intimidate them.
But black like soil gives root to what springs up
We spring up as the worm that never dies
Eyes peer through dirt to see sunshine
So we stretch towards light
There's more fight in our bones then we'll ever know
Afro
Seed of the earth the birth of being,
Be
Be proud chocolate