{"id":2548,"date":"2016-10-20T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2016-10-20T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:49:46","slug":"activist-poem-our-ayes-will-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/activist-poem-our-ayes-will-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She had<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Enough<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of half-baked politicians<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>She kneaded democracy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Here and now<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As the yeast she could do<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sounding off<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To those who might<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Listen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wee choir not<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A grand stand<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To lift every voice and sing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wringing well<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The harmonies of liberty<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>However aloud the rolling sees<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Our ayes will have it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is a tribute to the enduring importance of movement politics as the truest driving force for social and political change, working for justice for all.<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Justice-Some-Assembly-Required-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/ProductImages\/political\/22-Justice-Some-Assembly-Required.gif\" alt=\"Justice: Some Assembly Required -- POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a> \u00a0This poem is a tribute to political activists who do most of their work outside formal electoral politics. \u00a0Such action is centered out of the direct lived experiences of broken hearts and broken lives as opposed to white papers and think tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Most people of privilege and power will roll their eyes when hope dares rise from despairing circumstances to demand\u00a0justice, aka &#8220;too much.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;They just don&#8217;t get it&#8221; the condescension goes, as if people on the short end of power don&#8217;t know how the world\u00a0works. \u00a0&#8220;Not getting it&#8221; may be true inasmuch as the powers that be have &#8220;it&#8221; and don&#8217;t give anything but a shit. \u00a0Mainstream politics is almost by definition reactionary. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/The-first-duty-of-society-is-justice-Alexander-Hamilton-quote-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/The-first-duty-of-society-is-justice-Alexander-Hamilton-quote.gif\" alt=\"The first duty of society is justice. Alexander Hamilton quote POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>The fear of losing &#8220;it&#8221; at best and organized greed at worst, short-circuits justice in our so-called democracy for countless minorities (disenfranchised folks of every stripe), which deeply ironically comprise a majority of our nation. \u00a0If the 1% are masters of anything, they are masters of dividing an overwhelming majority of the populace against each other to assure that none of their many legitimate grievances are fully redressed. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Buttons\/Human-progress-is-neither-automatic-or-inevitable-Every-step-toward-the-goal-of-justice-requires-sacrifice-suffering-and-struggle-MLK-QUOTE-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Human-progress-is-neither-automatic-or-inevitable-Every-step-toward-the-goal-of-justice-requires-sacrifice-suffering-and-struggle.gif\" alt=\"Human progress is neither automatic or inevitable...Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle. MLK QUOTE BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Fear of losing whatever one has sides with frightening regularity with the increasingly routinely vain hope of &#8220;upward&#8221; mobility, aligning itself with organized greed, all to avoid earnestly\u00a0casting one&#8217;s lot with the poor and disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>All of this breaks my heart &#8212; not my will or hope.\u00a0This poem alludes to the rousing song, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing\">Lift Every Voice and Sing<\/a>,&#8221; which is often referred to as the &#8220;Black American National Anthem.&#8221; This song beautifully embodies and honors in music and lyric the undying hope and ultimate commitments arising like a phoenix out of countless inhumanities and death itself to keep our eyes unwaveringly on the prize: justice for all. \u00a0This song was\u00a0written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871\u20131938) in 1899 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873\u20131954) in 1900, the lyrics of which are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lift every voice and sing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till earth and heaven ring,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let our rejoicing rise,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>High as the list&#8217;ning skies,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let us march on till victory is won.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stony the road we trod,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bitter the chastening rod,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yet with a steady beat,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Have not our weary feet<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Come to the place for which our fathers sighed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We have come treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God of our weary years,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>God of our silent tears,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thou who has by Thy might<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Led us into the light,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Keep us forever in the path, we pray.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lest, our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lest, our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>True to our God, true to our native land.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May our native land, and every native land, be blessed with the spirit of this song.<\/p>\n<p>Feel at liberty to browse my <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Justice-Designs-Products-Merchandise-Store-Shop.html\">justice designs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Buttons\/Injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Injustice-Anywhere-threat-justice-everywhere.gif\" alt=\"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere--Martin Luther King, Jr. BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Know-Justice-Know-Peace-with-African-American-Flag-colors-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Know-Justice-Know-Peace-with-African-American-Flag-colors.gif\" alt=\"Know Justice, Know Peace with African American Flag colors POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" 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