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Like Beloved

by Santana Sankofa

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Like Beloved is a griot's gritty call to the Ancestors for help.


Will they answer?

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Poor Jimmy
Poor Gemini Nikki
Poor Angie
Poor Trumpet
Poor Louie
Poor Ali
Poor butterfly and bee
Poor Huey
Do we even know what we doing?

I know the Ancestors smile down on us
But sometimes I just wish they would wild out on us
Pull up like Beloved right out the Atlantic Ocean
With a fist up children it’s the Revolution

Poor Bobby
Poor Audre
Poor Whitney
Poor Biggy
Poor Garvey
Poor Billy
Poor Stokely
Poor Mamie Till-Mobley
Poor Baby
Casket pretty in Mississippi

I know people say a change gon’ come
I know they pray every day
And feel the vibrations
I just wish an earthquake would
Stop the stagnation
Shake the ground
Break the land
No longer one nation

Poor Charlie
Poor Martin
Poor Ruby
Poor Sammy
Poor friends n’ poor family
Poor country
You know not what you’ve done
We’ve begun
To unravel the hate and fear you’ve strung

I know the words already been spoken
I know they written in our hearts
Can never be broken
I’m just tired of the waiting and hoping
And the same people killing
Saying I should be voting

Poor Fannie
Poor Trotsky
Poor Toni
Poor Harry
Poor Marie
Poor Haiti
Poor Fela
Poor Nina and her songs
Poor children
Young, gifted, Black, and burdened

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released June 24, 2020

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Santana Sankofa New York, New York

SANTANA SANKOFA

(she/they) is a genderqueer AfroCaribbean artist, educator, and community organizer born and raised in LA, currently based in Baltimore.

Their art and activism centers on disrupting society and empowering trans + queer people through the sounds and spaces she cultivates.

Santana explores themes of justice, transmuting fear for freedom, and intimacy on their album ASHES. ... more

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