Black Jobs or retorts against despots who lie a lot

Another feather in the cap of Trump’s omnipresent ignorance and racism reared its head during the first Presidental debate of 2024 and I quote:

“The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border,” Trump said. “They’re taking Black jobs now—and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs, and they’re taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re gonna see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.“ My response is as follows:

Black jobs…
oh my god,
Freudian slips
let me take
a dip of the
quill in the ink
as I absorb
microaggressions,
transgressions…
shit that just
isn’t true…

hatred spewed
by orange men
with small egos
and even smaller
vocabularies…

your attempts
to minimize
and demonize,

souls like me…

melanianted,
not less than…

won’t go unspoken
or pushed back
against.


You vile fat man –
I hail from
a glorious lot
than ain’t never
bent to no
man…

On this land or any other.

My job?

I weaponize the pen
to smother ignorance.

And I see it
in my purview.

Words from the Ancestors
to you…

We extend a fuck you
in a myriad
of noble frequencies.

A live reading of the piece as part of the Pa and Son Adventures below:

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