by Raymond Nat Turner
Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier should be sentenced to “meet up wit his daddy,” down deep in the hole with “de Debil.”
My Wise Country Cousin On Baby Doc
by Raymond Nat Turner
Now, don’ axe me ‘bout
Dat ol’ Baybee Doc boy;
Dats anotha name my
Mouf don’ hos’—‘less
It ‘pared to be wershed
Out wit soap, aftawuds…
De only thang I wanna
Know ‘bout dat ol’ boy
Is his DOD—Date Ob Def
In otha wurds, when he
Meet up wit his daddy an
Dey new boss: de Debil!!
Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.
Raymond Nat Turner (c) 2013 All Rights Reserved
The Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-1761 was one war within an interlinked network of other wars.
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
Toussaint stressed that freedom was something that had to be fought for and taken from below by the masses themselves. 
The eye-in-the-sky tells residents of the majority Black city that they are enemies of the state -- to be watched and, ultimately, crushed.
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent.
