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Low Regard
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
19 Jul 2017
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by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

Yesterday's news was that Donald Trump wishes he hadn't hired Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be Attorney General. Sessions, who happens to be a lawyer actually read, or had somebody on his staff read the DOJ guidelnes which say the AG has to recuse himself from investigations into affairs in which he played a role. So now the president holds Beauregard in low regard as well. Comes around and goes around.

Low Regard…

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

He kept testi-lying ways less than lackluster
Feigned brain-farts for five-minute filibuster
Arch racist representing antebellum south—
Came whistling “Dixie” out his other mouth!
Clever cracker reconstructing the Stonewall—
Oinking twenty-six times: “ I do not recall…”

Tell me is it Blame Game or Race Card
Fueling my low regard for Beauregard—
Voter suppression, his crackling sound:
Like Black churches burning to the ground?

 

Maybe it’s his framing of the Marion Three,
Longing to return to days of Robert E. Lee?
Is it his bogus prosecutions for ‘voter fraud’
While sub-prime predators loot and maraud?
Maybe it’s his belief in superiority of ‘whites,’
Or, waging Lighting War against Civil Rights?

 

Tell me is it Blame Game or Race Card
Fueling my low regard for Beauregard—
Voter suppression, his crackling sound:
Like Black churches burning to the ground?

 

Brooks Brothers klansman, in word and deed
Would sport sheets—if they didn’t smoke weed
Ol’ Lizard, Imperial Wizard, Exalted Cyclops
Green-lighting klansmen called killer cops
Beauregard’s stonewalling ain’t no mystery
Historically the bassackwards side of history

 

Tell me is it Blame Game or Race Card
Fueling my low regard for Beauregard—
Voter suppression, his crackling sound:
Like Black churches burning to the ground?

Raymond Nat Turner Š 2017 All Rights Reserved

Raymond Nat Turner is an acclaimed poet and performance artist. Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com.

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