I wrote the following broadside to express my love affair with my country, a place where I strive to keep my consciousness intact.
Post your home broadsides below:
Against America’s Concrete
By
Alfred W. Tatum
August 14th, 2009
8:35 am
The grand experiment was to destroy my consciousness
Bury my thoughts beneath the ocean and dry out my memory in the Southern heat
I resisted and I still resist
To be caricatured although I am still on display
To those who want their America back
I’ll give it freely if you can give me back what I offered in return
You were my first kiss
My huffy bicycle
My corner store
My red ten speed
My embarrassment and my shame
You continue to be my auction block
Looking on to see what I will do next
I see you looking over my shoulder
Wondering what I will say
Wondering...
I will not crack
Still intact
I am home.
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The Voice of Words - BA 4
Psychological Trauma - BA 2
Predicted - BA 1
Black Wall - BA 8
Ethiopia - BA 2
Fool Me Once, Shame On You - BA 11
The Friend of The Nine - BA 1
The Lucille Gibson Guitar - BA 5
The Wind You Can Feel - BA 10
The Torture of Inhuman Souls - BA 12
Black Shorts Informed By Facts/Research
My Daddy's Shrine - Alfred W. Tatum
War Blood Fire Shame - BA 10
Short Stories Following Brother Author Visit
Never-Ending Walk - BA 1
DEAR GOD, LET ME EXPLAIN - BA 10
Father Moment - BA 2
One Dollar Short - Parts 1-3 - BA 12
Crash Collision: The Come-up - Parts 1-3 BA 11
Ugly Black Boy - BA 5
Black Shorts - Building Momentum
Outcast - BA 2
Fade Away - BA 6
Ugly Black Boy - BA 5
One Dollar Short - BA 12
Crash Collision: The Come-Up BA 11
When How Who Where why BA 10
Black Shorts
Not So Strange After All - Alfred W. Tatum
Midnight - BA 9
Last Stand/Call to Action/Deathbed Broadsides
Gwendolyn Brooks - Day 7
Ellis Cose - Day 8
Jacqueline Woodson - Day 9
PREAMBLE
We, the Brother Authors, will seek to use language to define who we are, build and nurture resilient beings, write for the benefit of others and ourselves, and use language prudently and unapologetically to mark our time and mark our lives.
This, we agree to, with a steadfast commitment to the ideals of justice, compassion, and a better humanity for all.
To this end, we write!
Table of Contents
Home Broadsides
Against America's Concrete - Alfred W. Tatum
Children's Stories
Against America's Concrete - Alfred W. Tatum
Children's Stories
I Want To Be... Alfred W. Tatum
Live With Your Eyes Open - BA 10
Blind - BA 8
First Three Chapter of Our Novels
Blind - BA 8
First Three Chapter of Our Novels
Khalil's Letters - Alfred W. Tatum
Psychological Trauma - BA 2
Predicted - BA 1
Black Wall - BA 8
Ethiopia - BA 2
Fool Me Once, Shame On You - BA 11
The Friend of The Nine - BA 1
The Lucille Gibson Guitar - BA 5
The Wind You Can Feel - BA 10
The Torture of Inhuman Souls - BA 12
Black Shorts Informed By Facts/Research
My Daddy's Shrine - Alfred W. Tatum
War Blood Fire Shame - BA 10
Short Stories Following Brother Author Visit
Never-Ending Walk - BA 1
DEAR GOD, LET ME EXPLAIN - BA 10
Father Moment - BA 2
One Dollar Short - Parts 1-3 - BA 12
Crash Collision: The Come-up - Parts 1-3 BA 11
Ugly Black Boy - BA 5
Black Shorts - Building Momentum
Outcast - BA 2
Fade Away - BA 6
Ugly Black Boy - BA 5
One Dollar Short - BA 12
Crash Collision: The Come-Up BA 11
When How Who Where why BA 10
Black Shorts
Not So Strange After All - Alfred W. Tatum
Midnight - BA 9
Last Stand/Call to Action/Deathbed Broadsides
Until... -- Alfred W. Tatum
Untitled - BA 12
The Man On The Bunk Bed - BA 5
Love Diamonds - BA 12
99 Problems But Fighting's Not One - BA 11
Autumn Message - BA 12
Stop - BA 7
Running Back - BA 2
Staying Together - BA 10
Day Of Death - BA 9
Her End - BA 4
Distraught Image - BA 1
Cry Of A Bad Man - BA 3
Slave Boy - BA 5
Embrace Literature - BA 12
Reflections - BA 6
Reflections - BA 6
Facts and Names Broadsides
Hut Boy - Alfred W. Tatum
Caged Animal - BA 1
Minority Majority - BA 2
11 And Counting - BA 11
Kebra Nagast - BA 12
BC - BA 6
Nastradamus The Empire - BA 12
Black In America - BA 3
Black or Black - BA 10
I Hate My Race - BA 2
Let's Talk Stereotypes - BA 11
Black People - BA 5
Black Education - BA 8
Untitled- BA 4
Barrier - BA 4
South - BA 9
South - BA 9
A.D. - Brother Author 6
YBA Poetic Broadsides Week 1
Measuring Up - Alfred W. Tatum
Don't Graffiti Me - BA 12
Paint Me The Color Of A Nation - BA 12
Same old, same old - BA 11
Population in America - BA 9
A Story In The Sun - BA 4
Black Male - BA 8
Innocent Bystanders - BA 2
I Know They're Saggin !!!!! - BA 1
Black Males - BA 7
The Jungle - BA 3
Murder Capital - BA 6
How Do You See Big People - BA 10
Me - BA 5
No More (Sub)ways - Alfred W. Tatum
No More (Sub)ways - Alfred W. Tatum
Word, Line, Paragraph of the Week
Young Brother Authors Have Written The Following:
"For me, I never could look in someone's eyes and see happiness when they look at me." - LB
"Just like the bulldog spirit, we will come back with a lot of bite." - DM
"I believe that I shine when he shines." JD
"Going to school that doesn't prepare you for college is another problem." - RB
"For me, I never could look in someone's eyes and see happiness when they look at me." - LB
"Just like the bulldog spirit, we will come back with a lot of bite." - DM
"I believe that I shine when he shines." JD
"Going to school that doesn't prepare you for college is another problem." - RB
"At least you made the puck black." DW
"...generalizations, fried chicken nation
takin cool-aid vacations" - PD
"...generalizations, fried chicken nation
takin cool-aid vacations" - PD
"The true name of the slab of rock unknown, God-given." PD
"They leave my image distraught
Will it return to default?" TS
"Maybe, he forgot how to love me the way he used to... I will be ready for him when he returns." AWT
"We write with no regret." DM
But the one thing you will never get is my pen because without it I'm nothing. LB
..if we rid ourselves of the imperfect, assuming we are perfect, then won’t we be normal? If there is no superiority factor, nothing to be above, then how can we call ourselves perfect if there is no longer a sense of imperfect? - PD
"I hear a deep piercing bang and then nothing…………" KJ
"Embarrassed, feels as if he let his race down, he proved the majority right… " - TS
"Looking back at my childhood I thank God I was blessed but can’t help to think about others who were not." KJ
"So, when I turn to dust don't let my writing turn to ashes." LB
"They leave my image distraught
Will it return to default?" TS
"Maybe, he forgot how to love me the way he used to... I will be ready for him when he returns." AWT
"We write with no regret." DM
But the one thing you will never get is my pen because without it I'm nothing. LB
..if we rid ourselves of the imperfect, assuming we are perfect, then won’t we be normal? If there is no superiority factor, nothing to be above, then how can we call ourselves perfect if there is no longer a sense of imperfect? - PD
"I hear a deep piercing bang and then nothing…………" KJ
"Embarrassed, feels as if he let his race down, he proved the majority right… " - TS
"Looking back at my childhood I thank God I was blessed but can’t help to think about others who were not." KJ
"So, when I turn to dust don't let my writing turn to ashes." LB
Featured Brother and Sister Authors
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Richard Wright - Day 4
Dave Stovall - Day 5
Walter Dean Myers - Day 6Richard Wright - Day 4
Dave Stovall - Day 5
Gwendolyn Brooks - Day 7
Ellis Cose - Day 8
Jacqueline Woodson - Day 9
Angela Johnson - Day 10
Derrick Barnes - Day 11
Richard Wright - Day 12
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