"An open letter to black people.......in horror movies" This is a poem i landed on Button poetry a site a friend recommended i look up.  Of the kazillion poems available  on the site, this title screamed at me to check it out, One mostly because i love watching movies and of the few horror flicks i have watched, i don't recall seeing that many black characters. I was intrigued by what these chaps had to say about the subject.

And boy i was in for an earful.

The silence that ensues after they say out the title is so captivating , it sets up your mind like an empty shell, waiting for the next words to drop because you are eagerly waiting. The pressure is up a notch. They scream out Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.......then the flow starts. The poem is about the everyday struggle, hustle and bustle of black people living in the whiteman's land looking over their shoulders every other time, a constant reminder that they don't belong. The disparities between the two races are still so profound despite all the movements that have happened to give blacks something near to an even playing field with whites.

When all is said and done, whats going on around us still shows that like animals we are still an endangered species. So we gotta keep running: will there be a finish line where everything comes to a a normality: maybe yes or maybe not but we can never know the outcome until we get there. Mean time the race is on....

Enjoy the recital..xxxx. B