№ 504: Southern Exposure

I pity Southerners

who time and again

have been betrayed

by cliques of old men

who retain power

by switching labels,

pretending there's truth

in racial fables.

The party may change

but the program remains:

keep white and black

forever estranged;

make them compete

for a small bit of gruel;

insure the same folk

continue to rule.

I give you McConnell,

Graham and others

and wonder if they'd been

smothered by mothers

with foresight to see

what they'd turn out to be,

would they be missed?

Well. . .not by me.

№ 346.1: EXTRA! Southern Batpist Cross Too Bare

Guardian: Baptist church threatens to destroy Christ statue deemed too 'Catholic'

Everyone knows Jesus was Baptist

not some kinda Jew, much less a Cath'lic.

If'n y'all cud jes' add our Confederate flag,

put him up on horseback so he don't look like a fag. . .

That, jes' mebbe, would make it awright.

Leastways y'all got it right 'n made 'im all white.

No. CLXVI.i: EXTRA! You Con, Icon

When they say:

Celebrating our heritage is not about hate.

It's respecting heros and history of our Southern states.

Reply:

If you insist on statutory “religion”,

jim dandy, we'll send you all of our pigeons.

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No. CXXXIII.i: EXTRA! Nonsense On Pedestals

To "celebrate history" it would be absurd
to put up a statue of King George the Third.
One simple fact, there is no debate here:
Confederate statues celebrate traitors.
Yes, it's our history, but come on now, Donald.
Do you see statues of Benedict Arnold?
(Never examined in these discourses:
why Southerners worship dead losers on horses.)
And, however hard you may sleuth,
even Dixie lacks statues of John Wilkes Booth.