@Femi Ricky but not till anybody else. And self hate is taught just line self love. White people hate everybody not white. Wanting to be as pure as tyre title but dirtier than the color of my skin. Before you races were still just for sport. After the whole world is suffering. And what you call it when a white person kills a family member, best friend, stranger who looks like them? Same thing you say about us you do far worse than us. Only good at deception and lies. Everything good is always some thing bad and anything bad is always something good. Triggered were you. Even without the gun it's easy to pull when you see the truth you hate to ok at. I'm not to blame say the murder still holding the gun. Getting mad over facts where they do that at? AMERICA. I don't blame you. If my leaders and family and friends were savages if be mad too.
"when a black man walks think of it as a masterpiece, a beautiful song that you may only hear once, cherish it, you may never hear it again" ,,, powerful poem
@@scott6504 Bravely ? like seriously you think crying tears of blood while Jesus prayed 'Let this cup pass from me,' that nigga was having second thoughts and am sure you cant cry tears of blood without sh*ting urself !!
After every killing of a black man in America, I find myself coming back to this. Here we are in 2020 and this is still a huge problem in America. I’m exhausted.
Heart ripped out of my chest with her words of truth. I pray for all of the beautiful black men in my life that they may live to be very old happy men.
Some of the comments saddened me as I realized we distrust each other. My Ancestral memory will always lead me to love a Black Man. Black Men, please remember we are in this fight together. We must heal together. We love you. If anyone denies your greatness then they are not of your tribe. Keep your heads up. It's all love. We are love.
@@alwaysblack6480 Black Man, be patient because we're out there. We are all trying to heal from the PTSD colonialism and all the other '-isms' that our people has been "blessed" with. There's nothing better and greater than us loving each other. It will come, of that I'm sure. Blessings on your journey!
@Ann Yes Black woman, I sense the pain but there are a lot of lost souls out there (Black Men and women alike). I have met some great Black men who still love Black women. I have met black women who throw their hurts on Black men too. "Hurt people, hurt people." It is time for healing and self reflection. It is time to love. Everyone won't love the way you do (not your tribe).
@Nickaela Nicholson, sis your words are poetic and rings true. That brought tears to my eyes. We need to continue to LOVE and PRAISE these brothers. Thank you for your encouraging words👑💚👑❤👑🖤
Nickaela Nicholson I really appreciate your positivity!❤️ I’m definitely a black woman who has nothing but love for black men! I love y’all!❤️ Keep healing and growing and we’ll get there.
I AM DONE!!! OMG!!!! 💪🏾👋🏾 Only two places for this beautiful poem from this QUEEN: MY CONSCIOUSNESS AND SHARE WITH OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS-FAMILY!!! 💪🏾👋🏾💪🏾👋🏾💪🏾👋🏾!
I Love Me Some Her!!! As A Black Man, YESSSSSS!!! Our Women Are Very Beautiful and Strong and Intelligent. So Many WORDS CANNOT Describe Thank You Sincerely Button Poetry For This Post
The way she uses her voice throughout the poem is so wonderfully executed. I don’t know how to describe aside from that it always caught my attention, she didn’t even need it to keep me locked on the screen but she did it anyway adding so much more to the performance. You can see her passion about the topic she talks about. And to mention the topics she hit oh my goodness! It’s about racism yes but it manages to hit the biggest and smallest parts of it all. Like how a black man is walking scared he will get shot or worse and the white woman clutch their purses. It hits the largest and tiniest bits of racism that are experienced everyday by black men. (Obviously there was more things she talked about and did wonderfully but I don’t want this comment to be even longer.) This was truly amazing!!!! Keep it up with your amazing work
The most amazing delivery and imagery! The way she uses her words and voice is incredible. First saw this 7 years ago and I still return to watch this.
Love it, love it, love it. I can tell you for a fact people look nervous when I walk in the room. Women have grabbed their purses when they saw me, so I grabbed my wallet and returned the look. Only to be met with confused faces. I have been told that when I walk in a room everyone stairs at me. I can relate to this poem. I even remember my mother screaming run Kev run as I raced. When I joined the corps I could still hear my mom yelling run Kev run while I was training.
How many years later I found this and I felt every word this sister spoke as me myself a blak man in these lands of America or this world to that matter. I walk into a space and the 👀 I get. It hurts at times because I was not raised in that but I have no choice to live in that. I love myself but this world sometimes WOW
I fucking love her cadence and rhythm she’s so captivating. She had so many lines where if other poets spoke them the crowd would have cheered but you just get sucked in your forget to snap and whatnot. Stunning.
My whole body is pins and needles. Her delivery was spectacular. She is a visionary and I can't even put together the words to give this piece appropriate accolades
Oh my sistah did yo' thang in Truth of our "Black Man Walking"... I'm Snapp Clapping my fingers hard smiling with tears in my eyes😂your words touched my ears. Blessings Shalom 🦋
Phenomenal sista!!!! I'd teared and then the snot came! This is legitimately the hardest portrayal of the Black Man, I have ever heard! Thank you for being so raw!
This is the first time I’ve ever heard this. I was scrolling on RUclips and wanted to hear a black woman say something good about black men. That’s something we go too long without. My mother told me the best days of our life of the saddest moment of my life myself and my brothers were born. She never cried so hard and her life. I asked her why. She told me she knew the world would come to clean our allies because not one black men. I couldn’t tell us physically they wanted to kill us mentally & spiritually. That made me cry, because even talkin about made my mom sad. I could see the tears in her eyes. She’s happy we’re all alive today. My sister as well. I heard to know that so many black women forget our struggle. They literally murder us more than anybody else because they fear our Power & awakening, yet we are nothing without a black woman, unity means everything for us all.
And I had this one little tear in my little black eyes, almost run down fragile but bravely . Thank u sista., I am a beautiful song they shld cherish, they might not hear me again. I feel u..., so deep indeed. I ve to watch again. Coz I'm inspired even more.
"When a black man walks... he aint got time to walk" *goosebumps*
LMFAOFF
One of the dopest lines in the poem
"They die like they expect to." this sister just brought tears to my eyes
Same here
it's fuckin insanity
That line was like a helicopter flying too low... it went over my head but I still felt it 😂
4 years later and I had the same reaction😢
That went really deep into my hear to.
"If only bullets could kill racism, poverty, and the traumas of slavery." That line gave me goosebumps from head to toe.
@1000 Subscribers With No Videos black people n no
@Femi Ricky but not till anybody else. And self hate is taught just line self love. White people hate everybody not white. Wanting to be as pure as tyre title but dirtier than the color of my skin. Before you races were still just for sport. After the whole world is suffering. And what you call it when a white person kills a family member, best friend, stranger who looks like them? Same thing you say about us you do far worse than us. Only good at deception and lies. Everything good is always some thing bad and anything bad is always something good. Triggered were you. Even without the gun it's easy to pull when you see the truth you hate to ok at. I'm not to blame say the murder still holding the gun. Getting mad over facts where they do that at? AMERICA. I don't blame you. If my leaders and family and friends were savages if be mad too.
"when a black man walks think of it as a masterpiece, a beautiful song that you may only hear once, cherish it, you may never hear it again" ,,, powerful poem
I don’t wanna hear no other Poem after this. I keep coming back for more ❤ Love Love and More Love. Who still listening in 2025?
speechless... I definitely won't look at a black man walk the same.
praise it baby girl
The same goes for black women, except it's even worse
@@gabriellameattray9778 fuck off
@@onyxosiren8475 nah. Everyone knows the most disrespected person in America is the black woman
@@princejay9661 your obviously a black woman troll lol
"when a black man walks, everyday he is like jesus; paranoid of crucifixtion."
Jesus walked bravely, difference.
@@scott6504 he felt fear during his final nights tho
@@scott6504 Bravely ? like seriously you think crying tears of blood while Jesus prayed 'Let this cup pass from me,' that nigga was having second thoughts and am sure you cant cry tears of blood without sh*ting urself !!
EARS TO HEAR is this verse I dropped look for this comment by ONEKBABY it's the very last comment
@@scott6504
Ditto! Though he experienced physiological response as anyone in the flesh in this life experiences!
"They die like they expect to." Need more of her. She reminds me of Nina Simone.
After every killing of a black man in America, I find myself coming back to this. Here we are in 2020 and this is still a huge problem in America. I’m exhausted.
Me too sis
Here we are in 2022 and nothing is changed.
July 6 2024 Sonia Massey was shot in the face, in her own home after calling 911 and reporting a prowler outside of her home RIP 😢
Wow... the delivery was amazing.
The black man is a powerful force, unstoppable like rushing water overflowing the earth with personality and an authoritive presence. ❤
"It's cool that her babies will have nappy hair even though she does not know how to comb it" so true, I always think about this
As a blackman that is 6"6' I know what she is saying. IT'S THE TRUTH. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVRYONE.
This is for all black men so who cares about height. It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size of the fight in the dog.
@@Azraeluchiha999 most of yall r quite tall though, but I get the point
@@Azraeluchiha999he probably meant ppl assume he’s more dangerous cuz of his height
Heart ripped out of my chest with her words of truth. I pray for all of the beautiful black men in my life that they may live to be very old happy men.
Only If the majority of black women thought like you.......
@Shar White I appreciate your comment. You're beautiful too. Thanks for brightening my day!
The power in her delivery... This is everything.
oh Jesus her stage presence her voice her emotion this is like poetic porn this is beautiful thank you for sharing it live
I love y’all Black Kings ❤
This hits harder now. With every single death.
She said cherish the footsteps of the black man… you may never hear that song again. Powerful!
After 9yrs I'm back here to cry my eyes out again
I just got here I’m weeping . This is amazing
I love the line "they are the calm and the storm"
Brought tears to my eyes😢🏆🏆
this brought goosebumps to my skin and tears to my eyes
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This gives me strength.
I think it carries a particular beauty and perspective, being delivered by a woman. Amazing.
So many nails hit.... Chills over chills, resisted tears.. sn-When a Black woman walks anyone?
Some of the comments saddened me as I realized we distrust each other. My Ancestral memory will always lead me to love a Black Man. Black Men, please remember we are in this fight together. We must heal together. We love you. If anyone denies your greatness then they are not of your tribe. Keep your heads up. It's all love. We are love.
@Nickaela Nicholson Thank you Queen. We definitely need more blk women like you. We love you too!
@@alwaysblack6480 Black Man, be patient because we're out there. We are all trying to heal from the PTSD colonialism and all the other '-isms' that our people has been "blessed" with. There's nothing better and greater than us loving each other. It will come, of that I'm sure. Blessings on your journey!
@Ann Yes Black woman, I sense the pain but there are a lot of lost souls out there (Black Men and women alike). I have met some great Black men who still love Black women. I have met black women who throw their hurts on Black men too. "Hurt people, hurt people." It is time for healing and self reflection. It is time to love. Everyone won't love the way you do (not your tribe).
@Nickaela Nicholson, sis your words are poetic and rings true. That brought tears to my eyes. We need to continue to LOVE and PRAISE these brothers. Thank you for your encouraging words👑💚👑❤👑🖤
Nickaela Nicholson I really appreciate your positivity!❤️ I’m definitely a black woman who has nothing but love for black men! I love y’all!❤️ Keep healing and growing and we’ll get there.
I love the line when she said listen to orchestra playing beneath his feet, pay attention to the vibrations when he walks into a room
I'm speechless. I tried to think of words but I couldnt.
Totally brilliant. Still in Forever will remain a black man. Great poetry sister I commend you.
powerful and excellent poem!! black men are like masterpieces all in them is energy! hermosos hombres , siempre que veo uno lo admiro!!
I AM DONE!!! OMG!!!! 💪🏾👋🏾 Only two places for this beautiful poem from this QUEEN: MY CONSCIOUSNESS AND SHARE WITH OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS-FAMILY!!! 💪🏾👋🏾💪🏾👋🏾💪🏾👋🏾!
One of tha best. 🙌🏾
I keep coming back to listen to her talk about me and my brothers!!!
I always come back to this poem. I think it might be the best I’ve ever heard.
SHE DID THAT!!! she told them ALL THE THINGS!!
I Love Me Some Her!!! As A Black Man, YESSSSSS!!! Our Women Are Very Beautiful and Strong and Intelligent. So Many WORDS CANNOT Describe Thank You Sincerely Button Poetry For This Post
Wwwaaooowww this is just PERFECT 🤩 LIKE I AM SOO MOVED right now. Shalom shalom Sis
Intense and beautiful
"When a black man walks..think of it as a beautiful song, cherish it or you may never hear it again"🙌🏼
*Wow. This is extremely touching*
A list my sediments exactly
"Don't let the white chalk lines find me."
As a melanoid male this poem spoke to me.
You can hear the ancient reverence she has for Black men in her voice.
Black men, I love y'all (and the way y'all walk).
Leander Miller we love you!
In real life no black women shows this love
@@jamrockjamrockjamrock3106 because it doesn’t exist
This is the most POWERFUL piece I have heard in a long time!
I luv this ....she spoke from the spirit of our ancestors !!!!
Wooooooooooow now that was a poem I hung onto every word this is one of my favourite poems !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an anthem. We ALL need to hear this. Magnificent.
Always seen the beauty in the way a black man walks so this brought me joy
I rarely cry, but lord above the emotions i felt listening to this poem. I laughed, I cried and felt deep profound anger.
The way she uses her voice throughout the poem is so wonderfully executed. I don’t know how to describe aside from that it always caught my attention, she didn’t even need it to keep me locked on the screen but she did it anyway adding so much more to the performance. You can see her passion about the topic she talks about. And to mention the topics she hit oh my goodness! It’s about racism yes but it manages to hit the biggest and smallest parts of it all. Like how a black man is walking scared he will get shot or worse and the white woman clutch their purses. It hits the largest and tiniest bits of racism that are experienced everyday by black men. (Obviously there was more things she talked about and did wonderfully but I don’t want this comment to be even longer.)
This was truly amazing!!!! Keep it up with your amazing work
The most amazing delivery and imagery! The way she uses her words and voice is incredible. First saw this 7 years ago and I still return to watch this.
Love it, love it, love it. I can tell you for a fact people look nervous when I walk in the room. Women have grabbed their purses when they saw me, so I grabbed my wallet and returned the look. Only to be met with confused faces. I have been told that when I walk in a room everyone stairs at me. I can relate to this poem. I even remember my mother screaming run Kev run as I raced. When I joined the corps I could still hear my mom yelling run Kev run while I was training.
so sorry that was your experience :(
One week listen to this every morning
I have never cried before at hearing a poem. I guess there are new things under the sun.
who dislikes these videos and WHY?! how can you dislike something so perfect
isa frank white ppl
Wypipo
Thank you, Neiel Israel. What a flawless performance, with a message everybody needs to listen to.
I hardly comment on RUclips videos, I'm usually reading but this poem always moves my soul anytime I listen..
Thanks for listening
I came here again 😊
One of my favorite poems ever! Here in 2019😩🙌🏾
How many years later I found this and I felt every word this sister spoke as me myself a blak man in these lands of America or this world to that matter. I walk into a space and the 👀 I get. It hurts at times because I was not raised in that but I have no choice to live in that. I love myself but this world sometimes WOW
Eye just found this sista today and 5yrs later this post is still POWERFUL
The TRUTH usually IS.
Very, very powerful. Nobody knows the pain of others until they walk in the same shoes. Thank you for sharing. ♥️
So true!
"he's akkk appetizer nuggets made of its own flesh dipped in his own blood "
THATS the line that gave me chills and brought a small tear to my eye.
10th time watching. Never gets old. I'll be back for more amazingness!
A powerful performance and and important message. Thank you.
This is the best poem about black men i have ever heard....i got choked up by how powerful her words were
Hearing this from our sista just makes it mean so much more, and that more valuable. Thank you.
how she performs this always gets me
This was beautiful
Sister it's good for ONCE to hear something positive about BLACK men. May God ride with you..
God damn that was powerful!! Messiah Neiel!!
I would never forget this poem
Intention of her delivery and originality is undeniable.
the level of talent, the level of truth, the level of perfection..
Goosebumps lined my arms and legs, then the tears came. This is incredibly moving
The WAY I love this poem!
This is the strongest thing I have ever come across.
Took my breath away...
Absolutely beautiful, she really captured when a Black man walks.
Chills down my spine. Chills!
I fucking love her cadence and rhythm she’s so captivating. She had so many lines where if other poets spoke them the crowd would have cheered but you just get sucked in your forget to snap and whatnot. Stunning.
I love this i love it a thousand times
9 years later...we still out here walking sister Israel (with PRIDE i must add)....GETTING THOSE 40 ACRES.. .sending that African love👋👋🤗
I am feeling powerful after hearing this. It's like I hear it for the first time every time. Speak it sister!
Paying attention. This was powerful
Heavenly Sista spoken TRUTH. When a Black Woman talks LISTEN to Her. Ms Israel Thank You
My whole body is pins and needles. Her delivery was spectacular. She is a visionary and I can't even put together the words to give this piece appropriate accolades
Damn sista, as a real black man...U just touched my soul.
GOD bless you and ya family
My Brothers in spite of all these things we still gotta save this world,thanks sista you are the most!
Cleezy Brown the only world we have to worry about is the world of black people AKA Israel
Damn!as a black African,I still love my black men.They are kings
Thank you, miss Israel. I feel strength by your words, I feel courage.
Wooooooooow! What a masterpiece!!!
Genius. Thank you
Oh my sistah did yo' thang in Truth of our "Black Man Walking"...
I'm Snapp Clapping my fingers hard smiling with tears in my eyes😂your words touched my ears. Blessings
Shalom 🦋
That was beautiful. For real.
I am walking right now. "I am a man.I swear I am a man",powerful!
Phenomenal sista!!!! I'd teared and then the snot came! This is legitimately the hardest portrayal of the Black Man, I have ever heard! Thank you for being so raw!
This woman brought tears to my eyes and light into my mind.
I find myself speechless. Beautiful, haunting, sad and captivating.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard this. I was scrolling on RUclips and wanted to hear a black woman say something good about black men. That’s something we go too long without.
My mother told me the best days of our life of the saddest moment of my life myself and my brothers were born. She never cried so hard and her life. I asked her why. She told me she knew the world would come to clean our allies because not one black men. I couldn’t tell us physically they wanted to kill us mentally & spiritually. That made me cry, because even talkin about made my mom sad. I could see the tears in her eyes.
She’s happy we’re all alive today. My sister as well. I heard to know that so many black women forget our struggle. They literally murder us more than anybody else because they fear our Power & awakening, yet we are nothing without a black woman, unity means everything for us all.
And I had this one little tear in my little black eyes, almost run down fragile but bravely . Thank u sista., I am a beautiful song they shld cherish, they might not hear me again. I feel u..., so deep indeed.
I ve to watch again.
Coz I'm inspired even more.