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The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side. Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I. My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes). The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…
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Singing Stones
I AM THE ONLY ONE AND, IF I COULD VISIT THE MOON I WOULD TAKE A SKATEBOARD . . . 9/23/2017 By Joy Merriweather Ok, I am not the only one but it sure feels like it. The title of tonight’s installation is Singing Stones. This particular exhibition features the artists from Palais De Tokyo and Institut Francais. I laughed. French black people in Tokyo. Got it. Maybe. Maybe not.
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Another Day (explicit)
05/24/2017 By Joy Lynn Clark Written, produced, and performed by Dazee Dizzle (Joy Lynn Clark)(daisyfriday.net) Wish you could party another day Keep it in mind that I’m never gonna wait Want you to bust down but then I play If I tell you I need you you might stay Please don’t give my dick away Say I’m on stroll but that’s ok Want some control but then you gotta pay And take a day off then be late Cause it ain’t gon stop until we great British London lets leave the states Play strip poker get it straight I got numbers taking rates Wish you could party another day Keep…
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Same Name Game
Same Name Game performed by Dazee Dizzle Hide like a bunch of fools Thinking you can take mine without the tools You say you can play that shit Giving away every rhyme I spit I don’t even think of you Cause you never demonstrate anything you can do You could have just come to me But instead you bug out like a flea You’re just parking far away Trying to sit in my space And calling tons of people’s names Your’e just parking far away Trying to sit in my space And you’re playing the same name game I know you are so pissed off And I felt the same…
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School Bored
5/5/2017 By Joy Lynn Clark School Bored by Dazee Dizzle I’m bored with school They always testing I’m in the streets learning lessons They don’t have the answers And they question and they got me waiting in line Write your name because your bored And you must get behind You got a job you can’t afford So it’s chalk that we all must grind And so I bring my paperwork For what its worth More to you than to me But still I give my facts like a jerk Income tax if all else fails Cause I want it to work Don’t want dead or in jail Cause I’m too…
