Sankofa Census

Ethnic Differences 

Dictate 

Statues 

For Applicants

Thrown In A

Trash Bin

Without 

Hesitance

Before Many

Have A Chance 

To

Begin

🔘 Black

🔘 White

🔘 Native American

🔘 Hispanic

🔘 Asian 


Normalized 

Questionnaire

Disguised 

Discriminatory 

Labeling 

Doesn't Remove

Bullwhip Day's

Stench

 Embraided Flesh 

Renewed 

Branding

Strategically

 Forgotten 

Origins 

Of Our Motherland 

Who Are You? 

Don't Tell Me

Jones Or Smith

Or Bunch Or Powell

They Don't Have 

Those Kinds Of Names

Where You & I Come From 

Malcolm X

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

Primary Lesson

Nonstop Emphasis 
Placed On 

Surname 

Derivatives

When At Birth 

My Given 

First

Is

LaToya 

Automatically 

Elicits

Reverse Racism

As 

If My 

Ancestors 

Are Known

To Strip 

Other's 

Of 

Their 

Lineage

Historian 

Lexicons 

 Teach

We're 

Negroid 

Descendants 

Classification: 

African 

American

Passed Off 

As

Heritage 

Black 

Wall Street 

Patriotic Inbred Tactics

Stigmatized

Psychological Chains

 Of Slavery

Worldwide
Practices

Lifelong

Dedication 

To

Learn, Unlearn, Relearn 

Everything

Stated About

Us

My Favorite Rose

That Grew From 

Concrete

Resides

In 

Harlem 

©  LaToya S. C.

I'm Obatala Crossed 

With 

Tupac

And The Cost 

Is 

All Eyes On Me

My Third Eyelid

 Stay Wide 

Open

Like It's Broken, It's Unsettling

A 

High Risk

Going Up 

Against

My Pedigree 

Empire State: 7️⃣1️⃣8️⃣

Maat

The 11 Laws Of God

 Holy Grail

The 10 Crack Commandments

Didn't Decrease 

Mass Incarceration's 

Snow, Hail, Sleet, Rain

Genocidal 

Liability  

Sustained 

🎶... U Wanna Be Me ... 🎶

Minus The Pain

360 Deal

Proposed Royalties 

Off My Glory

Believed 

You Could Narrate

What Isn't Your Life

Diminished 

To 

A: 

"Cool Story" 

     

🍒  Bro   🍒

At A Safe Distance
Outside The 11224

Zip Code 

Moonwalked Past 

Yesteryear's

Cold Case Files

Outlined In Chalk

Cyberstalked

Deactivated 

Social Media

To Squash

Inferences Void Of Thought

Criss Crossed

Imaginary

 Beef

The Skeletons In Your Closet

Has Yet To Show Up

On My News Feed

#Tag 

Suggestions

Frequently Mentioning 

Empaths Attract

Narcissistic 

Grandstanding 

Of

Boundless 

Grandiosity 

Psychopath Free 📚 Jackson MacKenzie

Self Inflicted Slashed Arteries

Bleeding Out In The Open 

Olive's Oil

Leafy Greens 

Misled As Spinach

Doing Favors 

With No 

Swordsmanship 

Bluto
Pop-eyed 

Savagery 

Heightens Arbitrary 

Wars

Lacking Internal

P

E

A

C

E

Let 

No One 

Put Asunder

🎶... Your Best Success 

Is My Worst 

Blunder...🎶 

PoeticParable

Brooklynites 
Unstoppable

Ishtar 

© LaToya S. C.

I Put My Life On These Tracks

You Act Like Ya'll Don't 

Want To Pay Me For

 The Facts

Luckily My Therapy Is To Rap

I Just Bared 

My Soul

I Don't Expect Nothing Back 

I Put My Heart 
Into This

This Is Much More 

Than Marketed Music

The Reason I Got A Market To Do This

People Going Through Pain

I'm Just Walking Them

Through It

Bare Skinned

The Universe 

Responds 

 To The 

Unapologetically You 

Unearthing

 A Crippled Ego's 

 Façade 

Sensuality's Tool

Entangled 

 Con Artist's

Prostitute

Sold To Those

 Who Lay 

 Under Covers

Allude

Body Count Rises 

Self Esteem 

 Plummeted

Ferris Wheel 

 Of The Used 

Coveted

Many Purchase 

What Is Deemed 

 Congruous

Trauma Bonds 

 Misconceived

 As Being Heaven 

Sent 

 🎶...Holding your fate in the palm of my hand 

Blow you away like its part of the plan..🎶

🤲🏾

Prentice Powell:

 A Letter 

To Her Exes

Approaching 

 The 4th 

Year 

 Conscious Abstinence

Caught Up In 

The Rapture
Master Class 

Of  Manifestations 

Jotted Down

In 

Ink

Any And

 Every Where

I Go

Eye See It

Living Blueprint

Of

The Fibonacci Sequence 

© LaToya S. C.

I 

Can Be 

A Beauty

Or A

Beast

You Ain't

 Even In 

My Genre 

It's Like 

𓂀 

 Caught Alzheimer's 

And

Forgot To Lose 

To Be An Artist 

 Is The Happiest Torture On Earth 

We're The Risk Takers 

Who Can Create 

Like God 

And Capture Time 

Forever

And Even While They Criticize 

Dissect And 

Pimp Us 

 

We Still Share 

Our Truths 

One Idea 

At A Time 

Some People Think 

Having No Clothes On 

Is Being Naked 

But Exposing 

Your Whole Self

 To A Judgmental World...

 Now That's Being Truly Naked ✍🏾

Cosmic Currency

 

 Crossroads
Amidst Ineffable 

Pain 

Parallel Parked 
Between Anguish 

 Skillfully Contained

Surrounded By 
Exploitative 

Puppets 

Addicted To The High

Of Tears Emitting 
From Sorrow Filled 

Eye Sockets

Whether 

In Privacy Or 

Out In Public

A 

Serpentine's 

Misread 

Judgement

Where:

Alfred Hitchcock 

Meets 

The Muppets 

Bartering Babies 

Ice On Soul
Heat's Cliff 

Thrice 

Shapeshifters 

3rd Dimensional 

Glitch 

Loaded Dice 🎲

Eerily Reminiscent

Conjuring 

Charlize Theron's 

Misinterpreted Awareness

Timidly Glimpsed 

A Department Store 

Mirror

Close Vicinity - Demonic Entities

The Devil's Advocate

Suited Up 

For Someone Else's 

Inner Leech 

Reflective 

Distorted 

Amenities 

Worldly

🎶...Ordinary People...🎶

Disguised

 By The Flesh 

Of Appearances 

Spirit 

Sees 

Through 

Counterfeit 

Treasury  

Understanding

🎶...My Best Years Are 

Ahead Of Me...🎶

Entered The Fray Outnumbered 

How Many Factions Does It Take

To Discredit 

The Chosen One

Accumulated Time

Evidently 

Burdensome 

Dominant Legacy

IAmHer

© LaToya S. C.

What Is Intellectual Property?

They Can Take 
Your Possessions

But They Can Never Take

Your Mind

We Are The Inventors

We Are The Lenders

We Are The Matriarchs

The Only Thing We Didn't Make

Was Slavery Laws 

PoeticParable 𓂀