My friend is a black man tall, charming, talented
& filled to the brim with a seething volcano of agony, hatred, terror & rage strong enough to cover the earth three times over with magma of sorrow
Molten metal of old prison bars, centuries of slave chains, ever fresh scars of daily humiliation. He never stops bleeding His kingly black race, he tells me, held down world wide for centuries under the spiked colonial boot of that monstrous lie White Supremacy has to stop pleading for love & acceptance–
Enough of that evil old game–you know the one– where white always opens & white always wins He will never play chess
Our mutual friends, those who are white, comment about how cheerful & friendly he is, so happy-go-lucky… always that smile…
He’s got to be thrilled they say, one, then another, sporting their fashionable “O’s” Obama! he rages. They give us Obama! We never pick him. Obama! He spits out the word like a curse
Why not a Garvey? A Douglas? a King? Why not Rev. Farrakhan?
Obama’s a puppet. Little black puppet on pink nylon string. White Nation’s house nigger. Master’s new pet
Obama is the opiate of the people –the one lucky crab that got out of the barrel– Fact is, master took him out
You watch: Master’s gonna cook him
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Eos: The Creative Context 
Hi Erik,
I think Joan gets away with expressing all that rage of her boyfriend’s since they have been together a very long time.
Yes, Obama is a complex guy. Easy to like — but in my opinion very tricky with a big tendency to obfuscate so people think the best of him while he meanwhile does his backroom deals. Typical Chicago politics you could say.
My brother Russell says its not fair that we know so much of what goes on in politics these days which makes people like me too judgmental. Obama has been dealt a difficult deck due to the lockstep opposition of the Republicans. All true of course.
Bea
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I like ” agony, hatred, terror/ & rage strong enough/ to cover the earth/ three times over/ with magma/ of sorrow.” The rest of the poem proceeds to cover. Can white people say what Joan is saying? Is it okay? Does she get it? I think she gets it. And I still like Obama.
Wait, I feel a POEM coming on:
I can’t wait
for the day when my spell checker
stops underlining Obama.
I want it to figure it out
for itself.
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Whoa!
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And yeah? I think it would be fun to get some discussion going on this…
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