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PRAISE FOR

Black Men’s Studies

Theft of Self

To study in the dimming shadows of oversight one must learn to feel for truth

and manifest a practical faith

an even deeper study.

Then, one must endure the witnessing of discarded essential elements.

One must remember and remap their tombs,

to be regathered and reassembled,

to be righteously deposed.

Africana studies makes a long pass

through an ancient and angry valley

that has been known by many names.

An anthology of half-truths must be studied

and suffered

in the same life and body, by the wrighted one.

The thrash and burn of a treacherous sea

that smiles and bites with the same mouth

halved.

This journey calls a man with tenacity like Noah,

a wheelwright who contemplates in the storm

“The Theft of Self”.

“Dr. Serie McDougal,

ON YOUR FEET!”

demands an admirable admiral.

—Orron Kenyett, Poet, Author of “Outlasting Denial”