by Raymond Nat Turner
If there’s one thing Black children don’t need, it’s a Role Model like this one.
Role Model… Or, Fast Food For Thought?
by Raymond Nat Turner
He orders
Take out
Tuesdays, and
Justice is served
On shards of glass,
Pulverized cement and
A bloody batter of
Blackened brains
Over filet of female
Infants—their eggs
Delicacies for the caviar
Cayman Island crowd!
Question: should grandsons
Cam and B, seven and nine,
Aspire to such heights?
Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.
Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved
This week’s featured author is Brian Jones. Jones is Director of The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools. His book is The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
This week’s featured scholar is Moya Bailey. Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her article is “The Ethics of Pace.”
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