Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

No Justice, Nobel, No Beer!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
29 Jul 2013
🖨️ Print Article

by Raymond Nat Turner

“Jury Has Spoken Stout and

Nation Of Laws Lager were trotted

Out like “8 Ball,” as Ole English 800’s

Known in the ‘hood.”

 

No Justice, Nobel, No Beer!

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

Ice-cold kegs, frosty pitchers and steins

Are draining and flaming debate:

“Less filling,” “Tastes great,” and

Sudden spikes in suicides, homicides,

ER visits and DUIs, since two new

Brews, Jury Has Spoken Stout and

Nation Of Laws Lager were trotted

Out like “8 Ball,” as Ole English 800’s

Known in the ‘hood—double-barrel

Beers packing the punch of panther piss…

 

Their brew master, the master brewer

Is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack with his hops,

Fermented fruits and grains, making a

Killing at O’Reilly’s, Hannity’s, Harris-

Perry’s, Charlatan’s, Unca Jim’s, Unca

Ben’s and other red-neck and black

Bourgeois bars where he rolled out

Rose Garden Post Racial Pale Ale

For Skippygate Summits, celebrating

Backwards police power and the law of

Of rule, like just-us Roger B. Taney,

Telling how we get off—Dred Scott-free…

 

Discerning palates, beer connoisseurs,

Note hints of hemlock, a slightly bitter

Bavarian aftertaste of aging in a Berlin

Bunker, Brown Big Brother & The Holder

Co.’s new bottling, distribution by PDs and

Alphabet agencies… like Bush’s Brew, before…

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved

 

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles? Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.


More Stories


  • Finding Your Whiteness in a Time of Crisis: The Reeducation of Norman Finkelstein
    Jon Jeter
    Finding Your Whiteness in a Time of Crisis: The Reeducation of Norman Finkelstein
    05 Apr 2023
    Norman Finkelstein was a highly respected academic, but his latest book is a racist "544-page temper tantrum." 
  • I AM FOR THE RIGHT TO BE FREE!!!!
    Shaka Shakur
    I AM FOR THE RIGHT TO BE FREE!!!!
    05 Apr 2023
    Shaka Shakur is a revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner who has spent the past two decades incarcerated by the Indiana Department of Corrections on trumped up charges. He has consistently been targeted…
  • The Need for Independent Left Leadership
    Sudip Bhattacharya
    The Need for Independent Left Leadership
    05 Apr 2023
    Leftists in the U.S. must forge independent formations. Electoral politics are still a dead end.
  • Judge Clemons Denies a New Trial for Mumia Abu Jamal
    Noelle Hanrahan
    Judge Clemons Denies a New Trial for Mumia Abu Jamal
    05 Apr 2023
    A judge denied political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal a new trial, and in so doing denies prosecutorial misconduct, suborning of perjury, and other wrongdoing committed against him. 
  • Communism, Islam, & Serving Our Neighbors
    D. Musa Springer
    Communism, Islam, & Serving Our Neighbors
    05 Apr 2023
    There are connections between spiritual and political beliefs. The writer advises, "...consider the synergy between the principles of our faith and the revolutionary spirit of communism."
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us