short school struggle poem…
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice.
Then he made school boards.”
—Mark Twain
Ignoring hot tears in tones of cracking voices
Ignoring Town Black and Brown children
parents— Ignoring ravenous bodies of heroic hunger-
striking
Teachers…
Real estate-powered, battery-operated, school board
members
Voted in wee hours to close several precious schools:
capitalism’s eating children/schools/hunger strikers…
Bought and bossed board members gifted Town
Children class struggle college educations—gifted them
mass
matriculation in George Floyd Summer School for an
Arab Spring Semester—promising to last a lifetime…
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Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet;
BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC.
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Elias Amare is a journalist and editor at Horn of Africa TV.
Forrest Palmer is a native of Los Angeles, California who is now an electrical engineer residing in Houston, Texas
Margaret Kimberley was among the guests on Women Rising Radio Program 45: Resisting US Military Bases and Domination
The Black misleadership class are still up to their elbows in performative nonsense and class collaboration politics. They still act against the interests of Black people.
Revisiting Frances Beal’s Black feminist theoretical tour-de-force.
