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Dirty Red<\/strong><\/p>\n

Said the ones calling him Brother,
\ntainted his story
\nAs Cain did Abel…<\/p>\n

How filthy they were
\nHow they made his children’s face immortal
\n…with body matter they could taste
\nSpotted with coagulation, his plasma
\n& platelets
\n…made them cannibalize
\nThey served him up for them to eat it up
\nbroken pieces as spare parts,
\nwith their cannibal eyes,
\nthey hungered for his wisdom
\nyet not the steps climbed to become wise.<\/p>\n

The hands of his wife
\nwith blood still blue, splashed and sprayed
\nwhile his heart still pumped away
\npressurized by the pump action
\nsawed off gage,
\npumped hard at close range
\nHe reached his Mecca
\nlong before he lay slain
\nand the heart of the fighter
\nturned peacemaker,
\nbroken by the brutality
\nof how dirty he was made. <\/p>\n

He was once Dirty Red,
\nbut god is what he became
\nhis insight was keen
\n& in his autopsy they said his system
\nwas completely clean
\nNext time you’re on that google thing
\nResearch the dirt they did
\nKnowledge, they said, he feigned it
\n…but the legacy of information left behind
\ncan not be tainted
\n& the friends he left behind
\nfelt his life was wasted
\nyet he knew his death was imminent
\nso as eminence, he, face it <\/p>\n

He… Little, “Dirty Red”
\nalso know as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
\nbetter known as Malcolm X
\n…lives beyond martyrdom
\nyet, in my eyes, as freedom\f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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