Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor

(Apartheid state professors or SS students?)

Raymond Nat Turner

“The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”   —Richard J. Daley

Scholasticide? Pedicide? Infanticide? Ecocide?
Genocide? Clear which side they’re on, they
Study war no more—And refuse to cave under
Weight of state—under Papa Cop Condor watch …

Bought and bossed, Papa Cop commits to police state.
Surveillance state. Apartheid state. Real Estate. Papa
Cop commits to elephant-eared walls/eagle-eyed poles.
Commit$ OT to embedded/invading/occupying professors.

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor’s built on bulky 
bodies of apartheid state-trained teachers. Visiting professors
of Pain Compliance—
Resurrecting Guantanamo ghosts; exorcising ‘outside agitators!’

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor’s taught by Vitamin S-
fueled scholars. Zip-tie truncheon-taser-teargas-wielding
Adjunct professors — pounding, slamming, jabbing, choking 
Contagious anti-capitalist virus out of students’ systems!

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy is cool with Skunk Shock Troops—
J6-IOF ilk—Deputized thugs invading campuses. Cool with
brownshirt ‘counter-protestors.’  Cool with Capitalist Hill-
Birth Of A Nation-MAGAt hat-horned shaman-style occupiers 

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor = U.S. Imperialism 101.
Not graduate studies, ’70s Santiago. Not ’04 Kabul, Baghdad,
West Bank, Gaza, Port au Prince postdoctoral studies. Not
gendering at gunpoint for peacock blue pill/weaponized warheads.

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor = U.S. Imperialism 101.
Not herding the handcuffed off to secluded quads and unpacking
magazines—filing reports into inquiring minds, into hungry brains—
Before hacking fingers off perforated avatars for souvenirs …

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor = U.S. Imperialism 101.
Not yet beheading and urinating on ashtray torsos; on electrified 
genitalia 
Before disrespectfully dumping crimes into freshly dug ditches 

Papa Cop’s Pedagogy Of The Oppressor will not pass—
Fails— for it forgets … or refuses to remember … its own
Tested, failsafe formula for radicalization … One baton
Blow= 10 teach-ins=1,000 books= A million lectures …

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. Read other articles by Raymond Nat.