“I see the poets, who will write the songs of insurrection generations unborn will read or hear a century from now, words that make them wonder how we could have lived or died this way, how the descendants of slaves still fled and the descendants of slave-catchers still shot them, how we awoke every morning without the blood of the dead sweating from every pore.” PoetryPoemRacismAfrican AmericansBlacksPolice BrutalitySystemic RacismInsurrection Book:Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems Source: Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems