Traitors and Patriots...

 

© April 22, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

“There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.” Ulysses S. Grant

 

Ulysses S. Grant was a Republican.

He and Abraham Lincoln

Part of then the progressive party in the nation,

That won the 1860 election,

Causing defection,

Insurrection,

By the southern, slaveholding states,

 

The party that won the Civil War

Ensuring freedom for former slaves,

Saving the republic,

Starting the National Academy of Science during it,

Would be aghast

At the modern party’s stance,

At the conspiratorial nuthouse, it has become,

 

The traitors’ ancestors brought my ancestors to this country against their will to work as uncompensated labor.

The traitors’ ancestors wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

And a mathematical loophole for holding kidnapped humans in bondage.

The traitors are their descendants, shouting “all lives matter” while black lives don’t make a kind of duplicitous, hypocritical “sense.”

 

The traitors believed the pandemic was a hoax, delaying our actions resulting in more deaths than necessary.

The traitors believe masks are an assault on “liberty and freedom.”

“Liberty and freedom” apparently canceling the deaths of 578,726 Americans.

That somehow opening with only 195 million doses given, 76.7 million fully vaccinated amounts to 23.4%: we need 70-80% to achieve “liberty.”

 

The traitors are pushing the election “Big Lie,” not unlike the “Lost Cause” narrative that amounts to superfluous bullshit.

If you hold your nose and compare it side-by-side, it’s the same lie that caused the Civil War, inaugurated Jim Crow, and domestic terrorism on people that didn’t ask to be brought here.

The traitors are passing laws to shorten early election times, close more precincts that stifle the voices of BIPOC, the young, the queer because they haven’t had a platform since the 1980s that appeals to these groups and never had.

The traitors are trying to tank Kristen Clarke’s nomination to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department,

Like they did Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court because someone fighting for the Civil Right to cast a vote might thwart the plans to block the votes of people who won’t vote for them.

The traitors don’t want a 9-11-style commission to investigate and hold accountable traitors in an insurrection, guaranteeing the tactic will happen again if an election – local or national – is lost.

The traitors are more motivated about Antifa (short for anti-fascist),

[Than] the fascists that scaled walls 100 days ago powered on this big lie, given voice by their fallen orange god who daily performed nauseating fellatio,

On Vladimir Putin, according to Michael Cohen, for a vanity tower in Moscow.

 

If you are not on this list: you are a patriot.

 

The patriots,

Are writing spoken-word pieces,

Original hip hop rifts,

Blues, folk, or country music,

We might see a harmonica, and hip hop fusion,

Comedy routines that make you think,

At Kick Butt Coffee,

And other like venues,

Though: I can't think of any like this!

 

The patriots,

Are demonstrating in the streets,

For equal justice,

During a pandemic,

George Floyd

Became a hashtag, and chant,

That culminated with

A verdict: guilty on all counts,

A chant that became a sob

For most of us,

A cry of relief,

And a resolve: this is not over.

The evil that birthed public lynchings,

Obama in effigy,

Illegal chokeholds,

And, knees on necks,

Still exists,

The march towards the arc of the universe has just begun,

We must soldier on:

Artists, comedians, musicians, poets,

For the sake of the survival of this fragile republic

To the apogee of justice.