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