RE-RIGHT THE TWEET
A Kwansaba
By Darlene Roy
Our scripts edit lost/warped causes: salutes
to Alt Right, Klan or Jefferson Davis.
Statues and bios of path forgers, ceiling
bashers like Boston’s Attucks, Baltimore’s Douglass, DuBois,
Tubman, Mississippi’s Hamer, Dred Scott would prevail.
Pluck Jim Crow outta the annals, replace
us, in bold, fluent and diverse fonts.
RE-RIGHT THE TWEET
A Kwansaba
By Darlene Roy
Our scripts edit lost/warped causes: salutes
to Alt Right, Klan or Jefferson Davis.
Statues and bios of path forgers, ceiling
bashers like Boston’s Attucks, Baltimore’s Douglass, DuBois,
Tubman, Mississippi’s Hamer, Dred Scott would prevail.
Pluck Jim Crow outta the annals, replace
us, in bold, fluent and diverse fonts.
Reflecting on President Trump’s tweet on August 17, 2017, in which he lamented the removal of Confederate statues that tear apart “the history and culture of our great country” and lead to the question: Who is encompassed in that “our”?
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