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© November 5, 2021, the Griot Poet
Bill Cosby,
Was the “respectable Negro,”
Had a self-named comedy show in the 1960s,
Did a stint as a secret agent on "I Spy" with Robert Culp,
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids in the 70s and 80s,
Another Cosby sitcom in the 80s and 90s,
A standup comic [known] for his G-rated decency,
Wrote a book on Fatherhood,
Said a speech called “Pound Cake.”
Berating black youth culture,
(So you know, Sean Insanity LOVED him),
Whether you agree with it,
Bill Cosby was convicted of rape,
The crime technically is “drug-facilitated sexual assault,”
He was convicted and sentenced at 81,
A technicality overturned it and sent him home,
Yet, Carolyn Bryant walks free.
Who is she, you ask?
She’s the woman who accused Emmett Till,
Of flirting and whistling at her,
He came to the south from Chicago,
One of the sights the Great Migration,
Taken by his ancestors,
From the racism, violence, cross burnings, and lynchings of
the “Christian south,”
Only to meet the violence his mothers and fathers ran from the
south to the north,
Emmett was kidnapped,
From his great-uncle’s home at gunpoint,
By Carolyn’s husband at the time,
(She’s married and divorced thrice)
And two other white men,
Some say Emmett had asthma:
He may not have been whistling at her but gasping to catch his
breath.
Say his name!
Emmett Louis Till,
Was 14 years old,
When he was taken,
Beaten,
Mutilated,
Shot in the head,
They tied an anvil around his neck,
To sink his body in the Tallahatchie River.
He was discovered three days later,
An all-white jury acquitted them.
Fast-forward to the trials of the vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse
and the murderers of Ahmaud Aubrey in Georgia,
Miles apart, there’s precisely ONE African American on each
jury!
CRT would call that systemic,
Each could decide if it’s open season,
On people protesting for social justice,
Or [just] being in the bodies of black people or Black Lives
Matter supporters!
“Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal
scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who
seek to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States and to
challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice.
“CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues
primarily as they relate to race and racism in the U.S.
“A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate
racial outcomes are the results of complex, changing, and often subtle social
and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of
individuals.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
In 2017,
Carolyn Bryant admitted that she lied.
Emmett Till died.
He would have been our first “hashtag” had there been such a
thing,
As cell phones,
His body flown home,
His mother, Mamie Till, made the principled decision,
To have an open casket funeral,
Let America see the wages
Of its hatred,
Made the cover of Ebony and Jet Magazines,
And national media,
Galvanized the Civil Rights movement,
It’s not “Critical Race Theory,”
It’s the actual teaching of accurate history,
They’re protesting,
Yes,
What Bill Cosby did was heinous,
There’s a difference between consensual sex,
And sex by apothecary,
Whether you went to his hotel room,
To sleep with him,
Your autonomy was taken,
When you couldn’t remember the act,
Your choice was taken,
Whether you were thinking of his wife, Camille, or not,
Carolyn Bryant prayed “tender mercies.”
On the memories of
Emmett, and his mother, Mamie,
They’re dead,
Carolyn is still alive,
Still free,
Still not held in accountability,
“Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream,” Amos 5:24
The words of the prophet Amos,
Bellowed by Dr. Martin Luther King,
This utterance applied to “Pound Cake,”
Why not Carolyn Bryant?
This little old lady is an accessory to murder,
Lady Justice’s blindfold,
Hides the genteel “wink and nod” of white supremacy,
It’s why you can convict America’s “acceptable Negro” TV
father,
But not Carolyn Bryant, a murder accomplice!
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