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Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
27 Jul 2022
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Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
Children Flee Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas (Photo: Reuters)

                                                                                                    Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…

Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds—

dial 9-1-1; sing this to the dispatcher:

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Akron…)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Brunswick…)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Cleveland…)

Tell the cops, “He’s got a broken brake light…Treat it like a traffic stop!”

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Ferguson…)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul…)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from New Orleans…)

Tell the cops, “ He’s got wrong color tags…Treat it like a traffic stop!”

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from Chicago…)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from L.A….)

“I just called to say it’s a Black guy” (from NYC…)

Tell the cops, “Air freshener’s on his mirror…Treat it like a traffic stop!”

Tell ‘em it’s a Black guy: He’s got his hands up! Loose cigarettes!
Skittles!
No house! No medical care! A toy gun! A wallet! They’ll drop Donuts—spit

coffee out—quit Facebook, Telegraph, Twitter, Snapchat confederate cancel

culture! Pause ‘white’ supremacist venomous copaganda! Respond swiftly

with Superhero speed! No huddling in the hallway like lions About to

approach The Wizard!

Tell ‘em it’s a Black guy—and they’ll forget their fears—fast!

How quickly rules of engagement will be remembered: Anti-Black

Racism prevails—in All jurisdictions—In nano seconds:

Cortisol’s in command! Adrenaline’s calling the shots! Esprit De Corps’s

passing ammo, instead of the buck! They’ll roar like hungry lions battling

for shares of overkill shots…

Just tell ‘em it’s a Black guy—Good guys will make quick work of

it— World Record Speed… Then scribble fiction; And figure out

vacation destinations…

© 2022. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.



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. You can Vote for his work at: GoFundMe and PayPal.

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