© March 4, 2021, the Griot Poet
Let’s define CANCEL CULTURE:
“Cancel culture refers to the practice of
withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they
have done or said something considered objectionable, harmful or offensive.”
For the record:
The British Crown was canceled
By the American Revolution,
It does not mean,
Odal runes as convention stages,
A Golden Calf in flags and sandals,
Railing on immigrants,
A license to use the n-word, epithets against Native
Americans, Latino, LGBT, women when you feel like it,
It has zero to do with the sexual orientation of Hasbro’s
Potato Head,
(Who’s not a living thing, OR a potato)
Barbie and G.I. Joe had no genitals,
Or the fact Ted Geisel “Dr. Seuss” tended in those times to be
racist,
For that matter, so was Walt Disney,
“Steamboat Willie” proto Mickey, was minstrelsy,
As much as I loved Dr. Seuss’s other books,
Books can be canceled by businesses that decide they no longer
want to print them,
But like most outrage culture warfare grifts,
Dr. Seuss, in 2021, is atop the New York Times Bestseller’s
List!
Book deals can be canceled for raised fists inciting
insurrection,
Fleeing Texas for Can Cruz during a snow blizzard,
While your constituents freeze to death,
Or, asphyxiate trying to stay warm in their vehicles,
Can get calls for your resignation,
At 512-916-5834,
That’s not canceling: we’re just not putting up with your
shit!
Ron Johnson making $174,000 annually,
Making unpaid interns read the COVID Bill in its entirety,
Delaying passage of it by almost fifteen hours,
As thousands of Americans are dying daily, hourly,
Texas and Mississippi still has citizens without water or
power,
It does have something to do with,
Holding powerful men accountable,
For abysmal behavior:
“Can I kiss you?” From Andrew Cuomo,
And “grab ’em by the pussy” by Orange Satan,
Should hold the same levels of disgust,
And the demand for justice,
Greg Abbott,
Wheelchair Nazi, opening the state of Texas,
One hundred percent during a pandemic,
Because he screwed up a deep freeze, Polar Vortex climate
change event,
Nearly sixty Texans dead of hypothermia,
And carbon monoxide poisoning,
In their freezing cars and homes,
If anyone bothered to spare a look,
The only thing NOT open in Texas is a science book!
So, of course,
He epitomized the “party of personal responsibility,”
Blaming the freeze
On “The Green New Deal”
(Which doesn’t exist)
Or the fresh spike in COVID cases,
On Joe Biden, AOC, and Mexican immigrants,
(Because racism during a pandemic is SUCH a winner!)
Orange Satan,
Is still promoting the Big Lie,
And no one in the party he hijacked has the cojones to pull
him aside,
And say: Dude, you lost. Get over it.
Or sadly, it isn’t lack of courage,
He is them, and they are him,
A grifting pair of wonder twins,
Two opaque mirrors darkly reflecting,
He’s like the kid who didn’t study for the math test,
Calling in a fake bomb threat,
Eventually slinking to the high school to face the music,
Still flunked the algebra test,
20,000 plus lies,
525,000 Americans dead,
And STILL won’t take responsibility for it!
Fox Propaganda canceled:
Arts,
Civics,
Common sense,
Christmas,
Logic,
Music,
Poetry,
Reality,
Reason,
Santa Claus,
Science,
(At least for their viewers)
Your Mr. Potato Head
Is golfing at Mar-a-Lago,
His body mass index,
And Adult Depends,
Made him a long time ago
A gender non-specific eunuch,
Melania in the spare bedroom attests to this,
Politics is in its essence: corporate self-care for the
nation,
Governance, debate, and compromise are logical ways to,
Collectively solve complex problems,
Like the pandemic, or green, alternative power,
The polar opposite:
Lying and gaslighting,
Grifting, and conniving,
Is like you trying to blow out a burning fuse furiously,
On a lit stick of dynamite,
When a bucket of water, or CO2 canister,
Is within sight,
The political extremes aren’t,
Democrats, or Republicans,
Left, or right,
Liberal, or conservative,
Conservatism used to have ideas,
We could all discuss, and debate,
The extremes today are between reality and delusion,
Common sense, and selfishness,
Democracy, and fascism,
Civil order, and insurgency,
In the prophetic words of Martin Luther King
On April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee,
The night before his assassination:
“‘Men for years now have been talking about war
and peace.
“Now, no longer can they just talk about it.
“It is no longer a choice between violence and
non-violence in this world; it is non-violence or non-existence.
“That is where we are today.’”
Way past his assassination on April 4, 1968,
Still, until we as a species are canceled.
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