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A Song of Redemption by Geoffrey Philp | Poems Rethabile Likes A Song of Redemption by Geoffrey Philp "No matter where you come from, as long as you're a black man, you're an African." ~Peter Tosh "Brown man, wha de I a defend?" greeted me in the afternoons while I unlaced my cleats after a game of scrimmage—skins versus shirts—when that wizened Wailer beardsman, locksman, Rastaman, Seeco, sweat dripping from hands that had taught Bob percussion, schooled me in the teachings of Marcus. Those were hard lessons when with all the drills I had practiced with my coaches, those years of privileged innocence, I still couldn’t touch the ball when Seeco shielded it with his spindly legs that had trod through the hills of Babylon, and scam...