There are lives that matter, and there are those other lives....
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
- John Donne
Two celebrities died this week
Pundits pooled barrels of ink coast to coast;
Kleenex flew from shelves; and
Facebook filled with philosophical wealth;
“So sad” trended, looped exponentially…
123 Palestinians were
systematically slaughtered…
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
A moment of silence—
70 years…
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Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report's poet in residence, and an acclaimed performing artist. Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com.
“Our focus should be on stopping the wars that create refugees, including the fascistic war on the Black poor.”
“Our biggest problem is that local polluters have poisoned our communities year after year with impunity. “
“The American people have been constantly manipulated and made to fear the Russian threat when it is the United States that has been the aggressive power.”
“I believe that Americans are the most uninformed, misinformed and ideologized people on the planet.”
“Neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s are still predominantly nonwhite, lower-income and economically disenfranchised.”
