New Poem about Black Wall Street.
June 1, 2021 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2021 at 6:26 pm by Brian37.)
Actually I was not going to post this here, but for some reason, the home thread on Rational Responders was only taking it in preview, but not actually posting it. I tried several times.
But I thought it was too important to risk losing so here is " Hate In An Elevator", based on the true story of a white female elevator operator in 1921 accusing a black man of assaulting her which started the Black Wall Street Massacre of Tulsa in 1921.
Hate In An Elevator, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
The masacre started
With a white lie
A white girl
Sold a lie
That a black man
Looked at her cross eyed
The white people of Tusla
Made the city a pyre
Not because
He did anything wrong
But because
Black Wall Street was strong
Having it's own success
Made white Tulsa
Jealous
And nervous
It was an excuse
Long standing
For the insucure white majority
To continue killing
The Black Wall Street
Had no chance
White Supremacy
Danced it's dance
Ropes and nooses
Firebomb businesses
Biplanes and crop dusters
Drop dynamite on them
In 1921
That was the norm
To treat blacks as subhuman
Regardless of harm
A hundred years later
We still have the matter
Of assholes like Chaulvin
And GOP denial
In that race
I something to get over
When whites stupidly claim
We are far better over
No no,
We still are stuck
In the racism that divides us
Needlessly stuck
It isn't enough
For whites to say
I wasn't around
In that far day
We still are dealing
With racism today
Because of the gap
Whites do not face
It isn't enough
To look at Tulsa
A hundred years ago
Then point to Obama
There still are
Inequities
America will not
Ever relieve
If we never never achieve
The understanding
Of a past
None should ever forget.
I really don't know what happened in translation, but I could not get the fonts to match on that one line. I gave up.
But I thought it was too important to risk losing so here is " Hate In An Elevator", based on the true story of a white female elevator operator in 1921 accusing a black man of assaulting her which started the Black Wall Street Massacre of Tulsa in 1921.
Hate In An Elevator, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
The masacre started
With a white lie
A white girl
Sold a lie
That a black man
Looked at her cross eyed
The white people of Tusla
Made the city a pyre
Not because
He did anything wrong
But because
Black Wall Street was strong
Having it's own success
Made white Tulsa
Jealous
And nervous
It was an excuse
Long standing
For the insucure white majority
To continue killing
The Black Wall Street
Had no chance
White Supremacy
Danced it's dance
Ropes and nooses
Firebomb businesses
Biplanes and crop dusters
Drop dynamite on them
In 1921
That was the norm
To treat blacks as subhuman
Regardless of harm
A hundred years later
We still have the matter
Of assholes like Chaulvin
And GOP denial
In that race
I something to get over
When whites stupidly claim
We are far better over
No no,
We still are stuck
In the racism that divides us
Needlessly stuck
It isn't enough
For whites to say
I wasn't around
In that far day
We still are dealing
With racism today
Because of the gap
Whites do not face
It isn't enough
To look at Tulsa
A hundred years ago
Then point to Obama
There still are
Inequities
America will not
Ever relieve
If we never never achieve
The understanding
Of a past
None should ever forget.
I really don't know what happened in translation, but I could not get the fonts to match on that one line. I gave up.
