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I’m Puttin’ 2021 In My
Rear-View Mirror: Post Haste!
Rear-View Mirror: Post Haste!
Art Credit nZinga Austin | Photo Credit Kamau Austin |
I’m Puttin’ 2021 In My Rear-View Mirror: Post Haste! OP-ED By Tolson Banner
I’m jumpin’ into my black hoop-dee. I gotta jet out of 2021 ASAP!
My spirit tells me to head to the NORTH STAR to meet the new dawn of twenty deuce deuce (2022) - the moment it peaks over a new horizon. I’m feeling a mystic cord of memory: like the great black migration from the south - a push and pull of the soul.
Historians have captured this Black journey with this soulful flow: “The lazy laughing south, with blood on her mouth and I who am black would love her; but she spits in my face. So now I seek the North, the cold face North, for she, they say, is a kinder mistress.” I don’t believe we ever met that mistress.
My spirit tells me to head to the NORTH STAR to meet the new dawn of twenty deuce deuce (2022) - the moment it peaks over a new horizon. I’m feeling a mystic cord of memory: like the great black migration from the south - a push and pull of the soul.
Historians have captured this Black journey with this soulful flow: “The lazy laughing south, with blood on her mouth and I who am black would love her; but she spits in my face. So now I seek the North, the cold face North, for she, they say, is a kinder mistress.” I don’t believe we ever met that mistress.
I’m blazing out of 2021 like black people fleeing their homes set ablaze by the vitriolic antics of the Tiki torch boys or duped by the mortgage sub-prime loans orchestrated by the banks.
I don’t think I’ll travel along route US 50 (red and blue states). I’ve convinced myself to revisit the roads less travelled - like Promise Street, Voting Rights Circle, Defund The Police Street (I think?) and Democracy Court. I floored my black hoop-dee and got busy on Freedom Expressway.
I don’t think I’ll travel along route US 50 (red and blue states). I’ve convinced myself to revisit the roads less travelled - like Promise Street, Voting Rights Circle, Defund The Police Street (I think?) and Democracy Court. I floored my black hoop-dee and got busy on Freedom Expressway.
I took the first exit up ahead, Promise Street via Biden Avenue. The streets were strewn and dilapidated. Word around here was these blocks held so much promise for change, like meeting the “kinder mistress.”
Blacks Helped Save President Biden's Candidacy But Many Feel He Hasn't fulfilled His Promises Photo Credits Wikipedia |