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

Tri-tanic
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
24 Jun 2014
🖨️ Print Article

by Raymond Nat Turner

On the “road to slavery, for the third time,” straw-bossed by “a Quisling Black bourgeoisie.”

 

Tri-tanic

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

Veering, weaving wildly, running over 

Glaring white and amber kadrunkas— 

Thunk-thunk-thunk— skidding off the 

Bone-paved, blood-slcik, winding road

Slavery to freedom, for the third time:

Reaganomics Gulch; Crack Cocaine Cul-de-sac;

The Titanic this time, slamming into Iceberg

Slim, sprawled on stoops, porches, bar stools, high

Beams on crack pipe politics…nodding out 8 years

On Gitmo, droning, wars, spying, bankster bailouts,

8 years of *NAS Fathers Day, commencement speeches, 

8 years of water-boarding with Cristal, 

Judas Black bourgeoisie debriefing  

Democratic Party patrons, backseat of a Bentley…

 

* N $#@%% Ain’t S*%^

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2014 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


  • Internally displaced persons in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 10/2021. Credit: Jemal Countess
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don't even want to hear the word ‘America’ ”
    06 Oct 2021
    A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to
  • Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the system while attempting to maintain the neoliberal order.  
    ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
    Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt?
    06 Oct 2021
    Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the
  • BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
    06 Oct 2021
    In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Louis M.
  • AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
    06 Oct 2021
    Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other so-called progressives exemplify the dangers of depending on the Democratic Party to enact any meaningful change.
  • Groupe des Patriotes du Mali
    Mark P. Fancher
    From Russia Without Love - Mercenaries in Mali
    06 Oct 2021
    The "scramble for Africa" continues with the U.S., former colonizers such as France, and now Russia, all competing for influence.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us