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What's going to happen to us?
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Last week, I was one of two featured readers at a poetry reading in Brooklyn. My co-feature was David Elsasser. It was warmly hosted by Evie Ivy at the Green Pavilion on 18th Avenue where the prices are right. It was a long haul from the Bronx and very worth it. I had a blast. However, the reason I bring it up is this: A woman who contributed to the open mic shared something before her poetry. She said that on an escalator (she named the building, but I don’t recall it) many years ago, she too was groped by Donald Trump. When she turned around startled, he told her that she should feel good because he doesn’t usually grope women like her. She asked, “Do I still have a job?”I admit, at first, I didn’t know if this woman was for real or not. But when she described his response, I thought, yeah, that sounds like him. She wasn’t tall and glamorous or blonde. So in his mind, he flattered her.Then a few days later, the FBI is again investigating Hillary.What’s going to happen to us?Can Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Michelle Obama and Joe Biden please step in?On a positive note, the first part of episode 3 of Comics Watching Comics appears tomorrow! I have no idea what part of episode 3 I will be shown in, so I'll be watching them all.
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Presidential Zebras by Rhonda Hansome
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Growing up, when I watched a movie showing a black president confidently handling the critical affairs of state, I’d smile and marvel at the outlandish imagination of speculative science fiction; that is until my furiously worldly high school best friend pulled my coat to historian J.A. Rogers.Rogers' tome, Five Negro Presidents is just one of his enlightening contributions* to historical perspective.
Here Doctor Leroy Vaughn supports Rogers’ premise:“William Chancellor, a White professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy and identified Black ancestors among both parents of President Harding. Justice Department agents allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of this book.” **On the silver screen when portraying the powerful, Morgan Freeman is charismatic and obviously Black.DraculaPOTUSThe previous presidential zebras - Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Harding and Coolidge - in spite of their "mixed blood" were able to pass for white. Not Obama.We are living a moment in history Dear Readers! Well technically, minute to minute, we are always living a moment in history, but in THIS moment, America has re-elected its first president to openly admits his white AND black heritage. Yes, Obama is a member of that very exclusive club, Presidential Zebras!Michelle!I am convinced that Michelle, like my mother and her mother before her worked some mojo to “Make a way out of no way.” And I imagine it went a little something like this.... Meet me in the Lincoln bedroom.When Barack got there she was wearing his favorite outfit, her birthday suit. In Michelle's hand was the conjure bag her mother had given her on her wedding night.He had not seen that red bag of tricks in what, almost 4 years? Barack settled into Lincoln's bed and allowed his eyes to revel in his wife's exquisite charms. And as she sprinkled bits of goofer dust**** she danced for her man and sang.
Mitt wants to be Commander in Chief?Listen Barak, just renew our lease.Romney ain’t movin' into OUR home‘Cause I’m the power behind the throne!Said I’m the power behind the throne!With a seductive glance and a final booty clap, Michelle joined her husband in the Lincoln bed. He held her close. She grabbed his ears. Barack assiduously paid obeisance to his queen until he heard her throaty moan exclaim, “I’m the power behind the throne!"withRobin Montague and more!!8 & 10 PM Sat. Dec. 8th The Poets Den309 East 108th St. @ 2nd Ave NYCReserve your $20 Tickets Now:stickneybiz@gmail.com $25 @ the door*World’s Great Men of Color, From Superman to Man, Nature Knows No Color-Line Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race.***That man is working that cool sexy nerd thing to the nth degree and those ears!****From the African American tradition of hoodoo, a powder used to cast a spell.
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