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REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE
REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE

The stain of apartheid
must be obliterated
from African's bosom.

REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE
REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE

For it is a valiant
testimony to our
unyielding struggle
to be liberated black people

PAUL ROBESON-THE SEQUOIA
VERNON-TURNER KITABU

I hear you stand tall
as a Sequoia is tall,
I hear you move men,
not as a football player
whose massive power and speed
moved opponents to defeat-
but move men with the eloquence
of your speech,
I hear the immensity of your presence
filled the stages of the world-
the vastness of your spirit invaded men's heart,
I am told echoes of your songs reverberate-rebound
within the mind of the blessed who heard you sing,
I ask
why haven't I heard the legend of this giant before,
why super the diet of the green giant and not the protean 
food of this mighty man?
In answer I am told,
unlike the mighty but silent Sequoia
Robeson spake,

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