From Lourenco Marques he set out
His wish was to have better opportunities
In the land west, but people there lived in segregated communities
In his homeland his kind lacked basic amnesties
My grandfather’s wish was to prosper
His voyage made during the great depression
He was met with oppression
His wish, segregation wouldn’t live a lasting impression
His wish was to see his offspring’s have equal opportunities
He envisioned them going to Harvard
Learning in the Ivy League
He saw a time when blacks were not seen as a plague
When all their oppressors would stand trial at The Hague
His wish was to see blacks seen as equals
He wished long before Luther dreamed
Just as Luther,
He went to the land beyond, before living the dream
Blacks are physically free, but not economically emancipated
Just like my Grandfather,
I wish
My wish is for people of my colour
To free themselves from mental enslavement
Black people can’t invent
Black people can’t go to Mars
Black people can’t lead
Black people can’t swim
I resist these notions of mental enslavements
My wish is for all races to progress
As my Grandfather wished I wish also
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war (Bob Marley)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. (Martin Luther King Jnr)