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Love my Black Job—
Black Student Union Job!
Hired at L.A. City College
As “The Peoples Poet!”
Read against the terrible incineration of Rafah today, this poem of r
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, a martyr of zionist state genocidal violence, has left us with a tale of resistance and hope.
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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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