July or Ju-lies

Rockets red glare
Black folk see
Ju-lies laissez faire
Hollywood’s glee
Making Jolsen’s
“Mammy”
White Whammy
Mae did Sammy
Blackface scenes
Godsen & Correll
Broadcast haunt
African screams
Kill historical
Self-esteem

Dollars off ebony
Backs
Corner stones
Corner stores
Ju-lies typecast
Sambo’s act
Used Media
Caricature attack
Show us foolish
On cultural crack

Black folk
Before you gleam
Remember
That ain’t you
On screen
Or between
Pages in negro
Magazines
Just
Ju-lies clownin’
Enslaved demean
Truth be told
Listen souls
We blindfold
In a Ju-lie toehold

July
Race is dismissed
Ju-lie
Didn’t finance slave ships
Ju-lie
Didn’t Redline Black
Districts
Ju-lie
Had nothing to do with NAACP management
Ju-lie
Blacks Jews shared
Enslavement
Ju-lie
Khazars in Old Testament
Ju-lie
Blacks Hamitic
Ju-lie
Ashkenazis’ Semitic
July
Amerika’s democratic

Oh fay, we can’t see
Dawn’s early light
Dangerous Ju-lies
Proudly plotting
Black slight



Shabaka 7/4/02