This is all flavours of awesome and the poem is wonderful, I just went and listened to it. Ask his Mum to record him reading it as a track and then edit it together with your own voice, keep him anonymous.... hell, ask every black man you know to read it and just layer those damn voices up in some editing software. That'd be powerful as hell. Make it a project, I dare you! :o)

Great poem. Great kid. Great article.