In the late 19th century, the American bison herds were hunted almost to extinction under the endorsement of US Army and Government to weaken the North American Indian population by removing their main food source and to pressure them onto the reservations. Without the bison, native people of the plains were forced either to leave the land or starve to death. 

في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر، قامت حكومة الولايات المتحدة بوضع قانون بوجوب صيد ثيران البَيسون (إلى حد  الإنقراض) بهدف تجويع سكان أمريكا الأصليين وهزمهم بالقضاء على مصدر غذائهم الرئيسي والضغط عليهم إما للرحيل أو الجوع

The Master’s Revenge

There will be revenge 
but it will be different from yours;
it won’t involve blood or murder
or deception
it won’t turn sophisticated people to rubble
then call them
underdeveloped, primitive and backwards 
it won’t need military budgets, 
fear, prejudice or gender oppression 
it will be simple, uncomfortable
and absolute
it will present itself calmly
there will be no screams
there will be no protest
just this

you are the owner of all energy
needed to destroy or create worlds
within you lies the peace of Akhenaton 
the vision of Imhotep
we can go further 
the first messiah
you are the writer of knowledge
the keeper of truth 
it’s looking at you through the stones
the history of the mountains
in the DNA of the earth
you’re there
this wicked narrative is new
it’s evil and unwell
1000 years ago you were teaching them
they were lost, barbaric, never knowing
the evolution of language
of culture the influence you had 
you still have, you must have
because you’re far from dead
listen
to the speakers, the knowers, 
the ones who tell you to open pages
and find yourself there
reinvent the past
pay the oppressor little mind
little minds fear genius 
because it knows your story
it knows about the old Kingdom
and the middle periods
from Moorish Spain to Muslim medicine
it knows about African mathematicians
and the stone calendar circles of Nabta Playa  
it knows that’s why it denies
that’s why it tells you to kill yourself
death has many faces
if something is made ill
why swallow it?
Don’t accept it, renounce it and go back
to before the chattel 
the division and genocide 
before the White Jesus 
before the crusades 
and the foreign religion that came with priests
and swords 
discover the hidden world
because history is self-serving
self-for-filling look in the prisons,
look in the armies, 
look in the places filled with the broken,
the destitute, the trampled on 
the us but not them,
look and see 
what happens when you 
become apathetic
when revenge is just for radicals
when you believe the story
they tell you 
when your only weapon is a gun
when your only hope is a fantasy 
when your knowledge is obsolete
when your woman is a bitch
when your brother is a threat
and your oppressor is your master
your standard, your ideal
don’t ask for mercy
it wont be given
lock it off, leave it there,
its dead its done the damage
consecrated the sickness 
it doesn’t work
so start again 
with just this:-

When they ask you for a beginning teach them
about the Grimaldi
about Menes and the first dynasty
When they ask you about women
speak to them of Isis of Hatshepsut and Cleopatra   
When they ask you about European languages 
refer them to Coptic and Western Semitic
tongues, explain how 50% of the Greek lexicon
is comprised of a non-Indo European language 
give examples,
When they ridicule you for saying init
claiming the word as being 
Jamaican Patois let them know that it’s 
a contraction of isn’t it, which is a contraction
of is it not, which is English and not Patois is it not?
When they ask you about war and peace
inform them that the word war comes from the
Old English Wyrre meaning to bring into confusion.
Mention the Golden Age of Egypt, 
communicate the fact that civilizations 
which have experienced the greatest periods of peace
have been matriarchal - say that twice.  
Include the fact that 70% of Native Americans
did not ever wage war with each other, refer them to 
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
by Andrea Smith
Keep close to mind the Haitian revolution, 
Toussaint L’ouverture and Dessaline  
if they interject calling you Afrocentric or a conspiracy theorist
reply with these names:-
Volny, Gerald Massy, Martin Bernal, Bouavl and Brophy  
continue
discuss human nature, how we remain 
products of our environment, how we mirror what we see,
how certain genes are activated or deactivated 
in our childhood 
determining who we become later
explain what you mean by White Supremacy
as a political tool to divide and undermine those
that don’t fit the aesthetic 
discuss Thomas Spence and the making of the English working class
look at denigrate families in the US and Anthony Stokes 
speak of Palestine with courage
declare that before the 15th May 1948 Zionists had already
expelled 250,000 Palestinians
emphasize that people are not born bad
that before capitalism and feudalism communalism 
was how we lived 
not primitive but equal.
Do not negate your women. There is more to feminism 
than her physical appearance, you may wish to talk about
Simon De Beauvoir, Bell Hooks and Angela Davis   
then poetry, the spoken word that predates the written word
oral tradition, art and storytelling.  
Speak until the sun has risen and set 1000 times
wear the crown that doesn’t need a stolen jewel 
to shine,
assure them that you are made from love
that you speak from love because that is from where
you were born
play them a song, read them a haiku
teach them how to dance:
many will laugh at you
many will brand you insane
yet when has madness ever really mattered here
some will listen, some will stay
and you will grow into friends,
into solidarity into the forever 
we dream about
so treasure your woman
treasure your man 
because we’re all we have, 
peace is the master’s revenge 
so stand in the present, draw for the future
and shoot with all the ammunition of the past. 

Some poems make me cry, like this one..

Our children, their children