Tennessee...

 

The "Tennessee Three": Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Jones. The Tennessean

© April 6, 2023, the Griot Poet

My big sister was a Civil Rights Activist,

She’s retired. Her name is Mamie Douglas.

She’s not in any history books,

As women in the movement were ignored, discarded: and overlooked.

 

Think about how sad she is that,

All that marching,

All the high-pressure water hosing,

All the bricks that were thrown,

All those police batons and dogs biting,

All the arrests my Frat brother, John Kenneth Lee, bailed her and her Winston-Salem State University classmates out of,

It doesn’t look like their activism amounted to anything,

 

In Tennessee,

Democracy went on life support on Maundy Thursday.

Before the day commemorating Christ’s crucifixion,

 

They voted to expel three Democratic lawmakers:

 

Knoxville’s Representative Gloria Johnson, a former teacher who witnessed the terror of her students, survived a school shooting.

Representative Justin Jones, Nashville, who got shoved by a Republican member,

And Representative Justin Pearson, Memphis, where Dr. King and Tyre Nichols were murdered,

He managed to channel Martin and Malcolm simultaneously in his eloquence,

They were all backbenchers in a lower chamber until this incident.

 

Representative Lamberth told the truth:

“It’s not about the rules.”

 

You can’t ban books fast enough!

You can’t criminalize drag shows fast enough!

You can’t rip away the bodily autonomy of women fast enough!

 

Tennessee: congratulations! You just put “woke” on steroids!

 

When they expelled Jones and Pearson, two black men,

The descendants of Klansmen probably called them “uppity,”

Keeping Gloria Johnson was a ploy to sow division.

“It might have to do with the color of our skin,” she said.

Gloria Johnson, my fellow teacher, is standing with them.

 

Racism is a simple formula:

Racism equals prejudice plus political power!

We know that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

So do Republican supermajorities,

North Carolina has one since former Democrat Tricia Cotham switched parties in Kristen Senema fashion,

I wonder how much dark money Trish received to make that happen.

The only black man who died in Covenant was its custodian.

One of the children slaughtered was the pastor’s daughter.

The Principal killed was a friend of the First Lady of Tennessee!

 

And yet, before that,

Bill Lee signed his open carry contract with hell at the campus of a gun manufacturer!

Governor’s office? Crickets!

 

Tennessee,

It's the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan,

After cross-burnings,

Burnings at [the] stake, and taking pictures for sadistic postcards,

Castrations,

Cutting ears and noses and fingers as souvenirs!

Hanging men and women (some pregnant),

Yet, they’re not designated, domestic terrorists.

Nashville used to have a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest!

The first grand dragon of this evil empire,

A statue that many racist lawmakers didn’t want to part with,

 

I was wondering why the Republican legislature,

Didn’t parade from the floor in full Klan regalia,

The confederacy was proto-fascism.

In this undemocratic action,

Tennessee showed us exactly what “MAGA” means!

 

Hitler got some of his most sadistic ideas,

From the example of the so-called “United States,”

Some were so depraved the Nazis couldn’t mimic them,

But they sure took eugenics and put it on steroids,

Six million people were exterminated,

Right after they burned books before Auschwitz,

Its modern analog is book banning,

Check this:

You can exterminate a people when you destroy their history.

 

Think about how sad my sister is,

All that marching,

All the high-pressure water hosing,

All those police batons and dogs biting,

All the arrests,

All the near misses with death,

“Make America great again,”

It is a return to Confederate fascism!

My sister and a lot of activists didn’t think they would be successful,

 

It was in that darkness,

One of our Civil Rights ancestors,

US Congressman John Lewis,

He got his head cracked on the bridge named for Edmund Petis,

A grand dragon of his Tennessee coven,

Despite that:

We got the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act in succession.

 

African Americans, Asian-Pacific Islanders, Immigrants, Hispanics/Latinos, LGBTQ, Women,

 

A better world is coming!

The right is going crazy because they know they can’t stop it!

 

If he were alive in Tennessee today, Dr. King would have called the Tennessee legislature the “children of darkness.”

 

The “children of darkness” inadvertently propelled “The Tennessee Three” to international prominence.

 

The Third Reich was defeated.

Lord Palpatine was pitched into the abyss by his apprentice in “Return of the Jedi,”

A double entendre on the ascension of Luke Skywalker and the redemption of his father, Anakin,

Civil Rights went from movement to legislation.

By the way:

We also need to kick off the Supreme Court, the corrupt, oligarch-bought Clarence Thomas; just saying!

 

Justin Pearson said:

“Resurrection is a promise and a prophecy from the cotton fields.”

The “children of darkness” will be defeated,

The true “children of light” need to keep voting and fighting!

“Don’t get weary in well doing.”

Keep grinding,

Keep demonstrating,

Keep posting,

Keep motivating,

Keep getting in “good trouble” for our brother, John Lewis,

And keep VOTING!

Rename that bridge in Selma for him,

I have never had more confidence that:

You will save the planet!

My sister passes the torch to a worthy generation.

Go out now, and first save this nation.

Enigma...

 

Image Source: Twitter/Mark HarrisNYC

© December 30, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

 

We’ve been gaslit since 2015,

It was inevitable that we’d get a spate of copycat con men and women,

Who wanted to take the mantle from Jack Napier,

AKA the original name for The Joker,

And rule a world that has become Arkham Asylum.

 

He’s not Jewish: he’s “Jew-ish.”

Violating the creative copyright for the sitcom “Black-ish.”

So, let’s push the envelope (a bit):

 

He divorced a woman in 2019 before coming out: “gay-ish.”

Marjorie Taylor, “Secret Jewish Space Lasers,” supports him,

Meaning he probably gets a seat in Congress,

Because Kevin McCarthy is more of a totem than the Speaker’s gavel he hopes to grasp,

Like his clown car party,

George Santos is “Republican-ish.”

Leaving open the possibility of switching to being Independent,

A tactic now called “pulling a Kyrsten Sinema,”

 

Umair Haque opines that we’re in “the golden age of con artists,”

Desperate times call for desperate measures,

Which gives rise to snake oil salespeople,

Charlatans and hucksters who prey on the fearful,

You find them in businesspeople, social media influencers, politicians, religious figures,

Not as often in artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

One group preys on your Pollyannish frailty,

Promising Brexit is better, or to “Make America great again,”

Neither Nigel nor Boris hadn’t a clue about Brexit’s consequences,

Or Trump how to deal with the Coronavirus,

 

Artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

“Tells it like it is” so that you can deal with what’s coming,

 

Reality:

In November of 2022, we crossed the Rubicon of eight billion people on the planet,

The Earth is reaching its breaking point in sustainability,

Its spherical volume doesn’t matter, just the number of its inhabitants,

We have no superluminal warp drives in progress,

We need fewer boorish billionaires and more sharing of resources,

 

So, expect the rise of con artists,

Like Sam Bankman-Fried, Boris Johnson, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump,

Who promise you the Moon (or Mars), as part of their grift,

But don’t have a clue how to do it,

 

Through the slow-motion train wreck of Twitter,

We’re getting a clearer picture of how Martian colonies would fair if Elon managed to talk a few of us into doing it,

Bernie Madoff made the mistake of conning the obscenely rich,

These new snakes are different.

 

Howard Dean, self-described “from the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party,”

Took no big money from Wall Street like Third Way Democrats

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin,

He raised millions in two to five-dollar increments over the Internet:

That became the framework of the grift,

 

What started on the Left as declared independence,

The Right stole and perverted,

George Santos went from being bankrupt,

To pay his campaign $700,000,

 

We are in the age of con artistry,

Phishing emails,

Vishing phone calls,

Multilevel Marketing,

Cryptocurrency,

Billion Dollar lotteries,

And “reality TV,”

 

Because the monied elites have broken society,

Racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny,

Are tactics by the 1%,

The actual thieves clearing the shelves of the Earth’s bounty,

And WHY you don’t have the rent,

Student loans are the only ones you can’t declare bankruptcy on,

Because Bank of America and Goldman Sacks require it!

 

They are suffering from Hoarding Disorder:

 

Selfish desires are burning like fires.

Among those who hoard the gold

As they continue to keep the people asleep

And the truth from being told

Racism and greed keep people in need

From getting what’s rightfully theirs

Cheating, stealing, and double-dealing

As they exploit the people’s fears

 

Now, Dow Jones owns the people’s homes

And all the surrounding land

Buying and selling their humble dwelling

In the name of the Master Plan.

The Last Poets, E Pluribus Unum

 

Hulu has FINALLY streamed Season 1 of Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,”

A metaphor for our time,

As Dana, a reluctant time traveler, attempts to save Rufus Weylin,

Destined to rape her great-grandmother,

Making Rufus also her kindred,

And important to her existence,

Anthropology and biology say that we’re all 8 billion distant cousins,

Who has allowed some of the group to elevate their self-importance,

Species survivability is going to mandate SHARING resources,

We’re too immature for warp drive: we’d be spreading empire and war over parsecs.

 

The hoarders call themselves:

Billionaires, chiefs, Popes, priests, kings, queens, “wolves of Wall Street,” plantation owners, Sheiks, and oligarchs,

And they hire,

Willing squires,

To carry out their orders in the halls of World governments,

Don’t expect them to give a wit about democratic republics,

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

He’s either a pathological liar or a [really] good kidder,

I am sure that whatever he HAD of a soul, he’s already sold to the highest bidder!

Stochastic Terrorism...

 

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Also:

The stochastic terrorism against the Constitution and people by Donald Trump

Public Intellectuals

© November 1, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

John Wilkes Boothe

Read the pamphlets published by

Dixie oligarchs sent southern peasants,

Who fashioned themselves as southern gentlemen,

Like them, he believed that printed gaslighting,

The peasants took themselves

To the war front for the protection of the institution of African enslavement,

That made the plantation oligarchs wealthy in the first place,

They didn’t own the pavement they marched to war on,

All Confederate soldiers got for their troubles was: PTSD (shell shock),

And the ensign that was flown by North Virginia’s Robert E. Lee regiment,

Who told them after surrendering at Appomattox,

To “fold it up and put it away.”

Nathan Bedford Forrest pulled it out of the drawer,

He got some bed sheets,

Put some holes in them,

Set fire to crosses to terrorize freed black people,

Put together the first domestic terrorist organization,

That STILL isn’t designated as such by the United States Department of Justice!

His BUST was at the U.S. Capitol for over a century!

The oligarchs didn’t lift a finger,

Lived on to age in grace and dignity,

And still got reparations from the U.S. government for “loss of property.”

 

Like Pontius Pilate,

They could walk away from any responsibility,

Wash their hands of any guilt,

Influence violence by remote control,

As a fanatic, they launched screamed:

Sic Semper Tyranus,

Assassinating Abraham Lincoln, the 16th and first Republican President,

Now, his former party advocates it.

 

It is the formula for stochastic terrorism.

 

Stochastic terrorism (noun): the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:

Example: The rhetoric of stochastic terrorism influenced the lone-wolf attack.

 

“Don’t retreat: RELOAD!” Sarah Palin, summoning the mentally disturbed [being] Jared Lee Loughner,

“Tiller, the Baby Killer,” Bill O’Reilly, sending Scott Roeder like a missile to his church while he served as Usher,

 

“In the old days, folks, they would take them out on a stretcher!”

“Do me a favor: [just] knock the crap out of them, will you? I promise you that I will pay your legal fees.”

“There were very fine people on BOTH sides! I know it, and YOU know it too.”

“Stand back and stand by!”

“Come to the Capitol on January 6th: it WILL be wild!”

 

They say what they WANT to happen,

 

And absolve themselves of any responsibility for the consequences.

 

In spy parlance, it’s called “plausible deniability.”

On the streets, it’s abject cowardice.

 

It is the proverbial “shouting fire in a crowded theater” where none exists,

Then, getting off sexually like a pyromaniac from the mayhem proceeding from it,

 

This poem is now my eighth piece mentioning it,

 

There’s blood on the streets, yet no laws against it,

 

227 million dollars spent over the last four years,

Denigrating Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Engulfing her face in flames,

Calling for her execution (Marjorie Taylor, the ex-Mrs. Greene),

Shooting an AR15 in a gun range, tweeting it, with the caption: “FIRE PELOSI!”

When questioned, they’re evasive and dismissive:

“Can’t you liberals take a joke? Geez!”

 

Her possible, inarticulate successor, suggesting that he might hit her with the Speaker’s gavel,

Like John Boehner and Paul Ryan NEVER did!

Laughing it off

Deflecting the origins of the violence

To conspiracy theories about:

 

A spat between gay men (obviously, they haven’t met any: ask Lindsey Graham)

The attack was staged,

High crime in blue states (red states have the highest murder rates),

It’s “deep state,”

He overstayed his Visa (so, now we have to build a wall on the Canadian border?),

The Arizona fascist, Kari Lake, making a joke onstage,

Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin, touted as the “normal republican,” doing the same,

And, the last gasp of desperate gaslighters: “he had it coming.”

 

This obfuscation is a multiverse of B.S. Mountains!

 

This madness is Karl Rove’s “created realities” on steroids!

 

The reality:

 

The 82-year-old husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Grandfather and great-grandfather, “Pop” of their family,

Attacked in his household at 2:30 in the morning by David DePape,

A disturbed man, a conspiracy theorist, not a male prostitute,

The shortlist is as follows:

Breaking and entering,

Attempted murder,

Elder abuse,

And a laundry list of federal crimes to choose from,

Inspired by a Big Lie and other obfuscations,

David confessed: saying that it was a “suicide mission,”

But somehow, he was going to survive to wheel the Speaker into the Capitol,

As a warning to democrats and quite a few republicans,

And NOT get arrested,

Only if the “rule of law” is WHATABOUTISM and irrelevant.

 

These people are Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane incarnate!

It’s gone beyond the Big Lie Orange Satan sputters on podcasts,

Paul Ryan and John Boehner were driven insane and into early retirement,

By the TEA PARTY,

How do you think you’ll fair with MAGA, Kevin McCarthy?

You would be a SINO: Speaker In Name Only.

You’d be on the hook to Orange Satan and the MAGA Insanity Caucus,

You wouldn’t be able to make deals with Nancy Pelosi,

You wouldn’t pass any legislation beyond tax cuts for the wealthy,

Financial physics would send the economy crashing,

Within three months, we would be shut down because you absolutely wouldn’t know what you were doing,

Nor does your party have any cogent ideas for governing,

You would be in a state of sheer sweating, televised panic,

Nancy would have to save you from your [own] incompetence and plug the holes in the Titanic!

 

No one would watch any sporting events if they erupted in riots,

Political discourse would devolve into disgust and indifference,

 

We have two choices in this election:

 

Harmony, or dystopian fascism,

Autocracy, or federal republicanism,

Democracy, or the Wild West.

 

There’s no way back if we go over this cliff!

American Exceptionalism II...

Image Source: New York Post, Jesse O'Neill

© September 8, 2022 (Star Trek Day), the Griot Poet

American exceptionalism “is the idea that the United States and its people hold a special place in the world by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from a unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals focused on personal and economic freedom.”

Boil water orders in Jackson, Mississippi,

The seat of their state government and conservative policy,

84% of the city consists of African Americans,

Coach Deion Sanders putting his players in hotels to access showers,

Take showers at home, but keep your mouths closed,

Especially when approaching the state house to discuss it,

Not exercising your First Amendment rights addressing grievances to your government,

 

Mississippi has the highest death rates

From:

Covid,

Gun deaths,

Opioid crisis,

Infant mortality,

Lowest life expectancy at 71.9 years in the nation,

Brett Farve stole 1.1 million dollars meant for the needy,

What other "millionaires" had their hands in the welfare kitty?

Colin Kaepernick's career was tanked for kneeling,

You’d think Brett could rip off a check from all those Copper Tone gigs he’s been getting,

 

You can’t drink water in Flint, Michigan,

Water sources diverted by a political decision,

My favorite president, Barack Obama, pretended to drink it,

FEMA was not called in to resolve it,

Michael Moore said this might have had more effect in 2016 than Russian interference,

Lead in pipes and water ignited by matches,

It makes for viral YouTube dispatches,

 

ERCOT took itself off the national power grid,

Climate change and a snap freeze froze to death citizens,

Cancun Cruz left his poodle, Snowflake, to freeze to death in Houston,

Then cowardly blamed his daughters for the decision,

A metaphor for the contempt he feels for his actual constituents,

Mind you; this sociopath still wants to be president,

Twenty-three members of the ERCOT board of directors, after the big freeze, quit,

Too bad none of them lived in Texas,

Concern about the isolated grid and Texas droughts arose in the summer heat,

Before they started finding dinosaur riverbed footprints,

 

What’s the Venn diagram blueprint?

Mississippi, Michigan, and Texas suffer “Republican governance,”

Reagan’s inaugural throwaway line: “government isn’t the solution: government is the problem,”

Became the framework for forty years of this grift,

It’s why Ronald Reagan, Pappy Bush, Dubya, and Orange Satan,

Come into government and took a sledgehammer to it,

It’s why the country, after each of their administrations, is in smoldering ruin,

And Clinton, Obama, and Biden have to ride herd in to FIX it!

 

Nunes the Cow, Hannity the Chin, McCarthy the Squid,

Crooked lawyers and hangers-on after seized phones and 40 subpoenas,

Meeting with the “Slob Father” on his golf course, no one is golfing!

Or not talking on electronics, since many of their phones are with the Department of Justice!

 

Moscow Mitch:

It would help if you had let Merrick Garland ascend,

  

[This] is not a typo: “Slavery abolition will be on the ballot in five states in the midterm elections: Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont.”

 

No one is free in Jackson, Mississippi.

No one is free on First Nation reservations.

No one is free in Flint, Michigan.

No one is free in Texas when an 18-year-old sociopath can purchase an AR15-style weapon easier than a beer, rum, and Coke,

And gun down babies before summer break,

 

For women, the Republic of Texas is the Republic of Gilead,

 

The evisceration of Roe vs. Wade was supposed to put the decision back to the states,

As soon as they get back the House and the Senate, Republicans plan on writing a federal mandate,

The childless Ms. Lindsey Graham wants this,

Who’s never been in a woman’s bedroom in his closeted life,

 

Ms. Graham might as well recite this derivative from Guy Fawkes:

 

“Remember, remember the eighth of ROE-VEMBER,”

Voter registrations are exponentially higher for women,

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents,

The anticipated “red wave” looks like a trickle,

Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker dream in a pickle,

 

Red states pay no state taxes,

Putting the burden of supporting the federal government on blue states,

Causing an exodus from states like California bearing the national burden of the actual slackers, Cancun Cruz,

Ironically winding up in one of the states that caused their distress,

 

Both Nixon and Reagan governed California,

Reagan and the NRA restricted the Black Panthers’ right to bear arms,

Just like the right gets excited about Black Lives Matter,

Not realizing that if you have to chant the obvious, it doesn’t,

We’re not “offering opportunities to a part of humanity,”

Whose ancestors have been here since 1619,

 

In the 80s, no one measured the life expectancy effects of the crack cocaine epidemic,

Incarnations made them irrelevant,

In 2011, average life expectancy dipped due to the opioid epidemic,

Not a single person went to a for-profit prison,

In 2019, the average national life expectancy was 79 years,

In 2022, that dropped off a cliff to 76,

Due to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic,

It’s not the flu:

The flu is responsible for at most 20,000 deaths per year,

Coronavirus slaughtered one million Americans,

Zoom zipped math and reading test scores,

Causing them to recede 20 years backward,

No other comparable developed nation saw this,

Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune between the 1950s to the go-go 80s,

They had to join fellow vets in a lawsuit over burn pits for due compensation,

Vietnam soldiers affected by Agent Orange joined them,

The republicans didn’t want to pay for the lung effects of 9/11,

 

So, tell me a fairytale story,

Tell me about Winthrop’s “city on a hill,”

Tell me how it’s differentiated from a golden sprayed dung heap,

Tell me about “American exceptionalism.”

 

I channel James Baldwin as I end this piece:

 

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

 

ROE-VEMBER 8, 2022: women, save America: VOTE!

Slap Boxing...

Chris Rock and Will Smith [onstage] during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022.

Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via GI

Image Source: Billboard.com

© March 30, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Slap boxing,

Open hand smacking,

Not knuckling like men

Marquis of Queensberry rules lacking,

To our shock and chagrin,

The “slap heard round the world” wasn’t an act,

 

First question:

Would you have stepped up

Had the comedian been Jimmy Kimmel?

Comedians roast celebrities: that’s their shtick.

You just put a target on any comedian who makes a joke.

You were laughing until you saw Jada rolling her eyes, then you thought about it.

No one is going to practice the art wearing a Kevlar flack jacket,

 

I’m not saying NOT to defend your wife,

We didn’t have that luxury during slavery,

Or the Middle Passage,

But you’re (at the moment) A-Listed status,

A multimillionaire former rapper,

Turned formidable actor,

 

You could have taken him to the side after the ceremony

With your lawyer, and demanded a public apology,

You could have challenged him

On the most important night of your existence,

To a celebrity boxing match after accepting your Oscar.

You had the eyes of the world on YOU,

And who didn’t want to see you FINALLY win?

You took “King Richard” from Venus and Serena Williams,

You took “Summer of Soul” from Quest Love,

Will Packer, after “Oscars So White,” was head manager,

You trained for “Ali,” and you’re a good athlete.

You could have even charged Pay-Per-View,

Made a mint,

And donate the money to the other’s favorite charity.

That could have satisfied your chivalry,

All Chris would have done is get big-eyed on stage and say, “Oh, shit!”

 

We’ll never know.

It would suck if the Academy took your Oscar back.

Harvey Weinstein still has his after “me too” in prison,

The Academy of Motion Pictures is shuffling,

They’re hoping the public is attention deficit,

Their discipline appears selective.

Yeah, there was a classier way to handle disrespect to your wife.

Last night wasn’t it.

 

Second question,

Would you have made a GI Jane joke reference

Had the couple in the audience been

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds?

You’ve attained multimillionaire status,

You’re off a season of “Boardwalk Empire,”

You were Pookie in “New Jack City,”

Comedy takes intelligence,

Meanness takes psychopathy,

 

Alopecia is a disease that

Removes a woman’s “crowning glory,”

Jada Pickett-Smith,

And Representative Ayanna Pressley bravely decided to own it,

I’ll give Chris this pass: he didn’t know about it.

 

Each strand falling to the floor is a “little death” of their self-esteem,

The five stages of grief are still:

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression: acceptance,

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,

And not exactly in that order,

 

Both of you have mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters,

If you’re living, you have a woman to thank for being on the planet!

The beauty shop is the center of their universe,

Losing their hair is not a giggle,

Losing the audience is not a winner,

Jada’s not inviting you to the next Thanksgiving dinner,

Your Boston show sold out,

Ticket sales were through the roof,

The pimp slap is proving profitable,

You’re going to have the crowd pressure of escalating

The situation,

Or you’re going to have to be brave enough to squash it,

 

Enslavers pitted us

Against each other so that we wouldn’t have the strength,

Or the cunning to organize against them,

It was a human-sized cock fighting for debasement

And entertainment,

We didn’t start moving forward until we squashed the kinds of beef between us,

Building towns, colleges, Rosewood and Black Wall Street,

It was racist envy that destroyed the latter, not infighting!

We used to be running in the same direction on the Underground Railroad,

Following Harriet Tubman to freedom,

 

Don’t get “too big for your britches,”

Lawyers are salivating to strip both of you,

Of your wealth and riches,

So the only option you’ll have left,

Is moving back to your tenements in New York and Philly,

The “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” from Peacock to a peon,

“Boardwalk Empire” back to Pookie, the crackhead,

 

Slap box somebody on those streets,

We’re just recovering from the disappointment of Bill Cosby,

Now you’re both giving us 21st Century Step-n-Fetch,

If you can’t tell, I’ve lost all respect for the slap boxer and the slapped,

Admit it, Chris: this isn’t the first time towards Jada that you’ve talked smack,

Do you have a problem with the joke Will,

Or your wife’s open relationship with her lover, August Alsina? (He doesn’t look slapped)

Do you remember talking about squashing kinds of beef after Biggie and Tupac at the Grammys?

Some young people look up to both of you; whether [or not] you like it.

 

Bottom line:

Crass jokes aren’t for smart comedians,

Slap boxing isn’t for grown-ass men,

You both went from A-listers in my mind to minstrels.

Be careful with your public personas, or both of you will quickly be forgotten.