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

Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
10 Nov 2021
🖨️ Print Article
Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers
Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers

CODE RED!!

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:

clean coal clowns; fossil fools; net zero acrobats; carbon

jugglers…Bored by greasy-thumbed grifters and jingoist 

gangsters; Bored by junk metal-chested generals disguised 

as donkeys inside elephants—Tethered to tits on Wall Street’s 

bull… Blocking! Stalling! Gaslighting! Waging war by other names…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:

tired of 2/4 Dancers dancing the Limbo from bended knees;

Tired of them spinning spineless legislation swaddled in

rectangular rags—reaching across their arid aisle and

Externalizing excrement. Leaving dung-splattered streets to

3 monkeys who See No Oil; Hear No Coal; Speak of No Gas as evil…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers… Who’ll stop 

the circus from sullying our names with climate 

crime? Who’ll say their names—their Wall Street 

gang names—reconnecting them to climate crimes?

Who’ll say Superstorm Chevron?

Nor’ easter Exxon; Tsunami Shell?

And who’ll say Blackened bird BP?

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers who may—or

may not—remember the Arab Spring; Remember Occupy

lingo “1%”/“99%.” Remember knitted brows; Remember  

putting forehead to problems

created by person Hoods—aka corporate kings and queens…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers recall rubber 

bullet, plastic cuff, bloody, broken bone, stolen eyeball- 

tooth trauma…Recall draconian sentences required to

arrest killer cops; wrench slavers statues from pedestals; 

Rechristen schools, streets, parks, plazas, teams; Retire 

Unca Ben, Aunt Jemima with stars and bars at NASCAR

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators—

and scholars 

 

Calling all pavement policymakers—and professors…

Study resistance. Major in mass action. Your gait, your

posture’s perfect—like ours once were— 

Matriculate 2020-like. And defend dissertations entitled:

“Fossil Fuels, Force and Deception of The Corporate State—

University Of The Streets…”

 

© 2021. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. 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


  • Black Alliance For Peace
    Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Community to Boycott the 2026 World Cup Games Scheduled for the United States
    03 Jun 2026
    The World Cup is meant to be a celebration of global unity, not a propaganda shield for a superpower waging genocide abroad and running detention gulags on its own soil.
  • Community Movement Builders - Newark
    CMB Newark Statement on the Delaney Hall Uprising
    03 Jun 2026
    The immigrants who revolted inside the Delaney Hall immigration jail are not criminals but prisoners of war, and their actions are those of resistance against a fascist detention system.
  • Abayomi Azikiwe
    Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Central and East Africa Causes Alarm
    03 Jun 2026
    Since early May, the World Health Organization and the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been working to contain the spread of a rare and virulent strain of Ebola virus disease.
  • Sam E. Anderson
    Beyond the Algorithm: Defending the Cuban Revolution’s Record Against Ahistorical Attacks
    03 Jun 2026
    A critical analysis of the U.S. backed social media "influencer" war propaganda campaign against Cuba as it struggles against a criminal siege.
  • David Escobar
    Colombia: An ethical revolution (with a grassroots focus) / Una revolución ética (con acento popular)
    03 Jun 2026
    Colombia's presidential election will be held on June 21st as Historic Pact candidate Ivan Cepeda runs against the Trump endorsed right wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. This analysis written…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us