by Raymond Nat Turner
If corporations are people, what kind of people are they?
My Wise Country Cousin on Corporate Personhood
by Raymond Nat Turner
Why my brow furrode lak dis?
‘Cause corprayshunz sayin’ dey’z
Pursun-hoodz—mo ‘hoodz den
Pursunz if you axe me—dey say
Dey wanna be treated lak pursunz,
No, dey demanz pursunz treatment!
Now, if dat be so, show seem lak
Ta me dey could be treated lak de
Pursuns dey did de Tusskeygee
Xpeermintz on, huh?
Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.
Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations and as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death.
"They Wear The Masks" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a…
The mass incarceration system demands thousands of Black bodies behind bars. That system is maintained by prosecutorial misconduct which goes unpunished. That impunity is integral to keeping the…
Arday was killed by the contradiction at the heart of white elite institutions: they want the appearance of racial progress without structural change, and they readily discard Black people, even…
