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Love my Black Job—
Black Student Union Job!
Hired at L.A. City College
As “The Peoples Poet!”
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Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne-
caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who
Could the pigment of your imagination
cause Black magic mascots, props, sops—
Black faces in high places—
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
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“Racist narratives become so thoroughly pervasive as to throw victims of racism themselves into states of confusion.”
“The elders” told Jenifer Wilson that there would soon be an assault on Harlem “to take the community from us, all the spaces.” So Wilson founded the Sisters’ Uptown Bookstore
