A poem by Raymond Nat Turner

Shooting and looting started: 400 years ago

Shooting, looting, scalping, lynching,

Raping, torturing their way across the continent — 400 years ago —

Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide rolling down on

Today…

Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide leaving in- visible yellow crime
scene tape crisscrossing Tallahassee to Seattle; San Diego to Bangor…

Shooting Seneca, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, Mohawk, Cayuga, Blackfeet,

Shooting Sioux, Shawnee, Chickasaw, Chippewa before

Looting Lakota land; Looting Ohlone Land—

Looting Ashanti, Fulani, Huasa, Wolof, Yoruba, Ibo, Kongo, Mongo, Hutu, Zulu…

Labor.

Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide — hot lead storms —

Shooting, looting Mexico for half of New Mexico; a quarter of Colorado; some of

Wyoming and most of Arizona; Looting Mexico for Utah, Nevada and California

So, next time Orange Mobutu, Boss Tweet, is dirty like Duterte — howling for shooting;

Next time demented minions raise rifles to shoot; Remind them that

Real looters wear Brooks Brothers suits;

Or gold braid and junk medals ‘cross their chests. Real looters — with Capitalist Hill

Accomplices —
Steal trillions
Not FOX-boxes, silly sneakers, cheap clothes…

© 2020. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report’s poet in residence and is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com.

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