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Marion Perkins sculpted Man of Sorrow, bought by The Art Institute of Chicago
Cops the Robbers stole 13 works from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; case is ongoing
Boston: Home of the first Afro-American women’s publisher, philanthropist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
But facts don’t matter
Because The New York Post has good copy chiefs
That make believe the lie that All Lives Matter
While they post political cartoons of our president as a monkey with a gunshot in his chest
Talmbout, it was a joke.
Revolution Books’ newsletter dressed up Trump as Hitler
But they didn’t do the obvious clapback
Because good jokes burn inside
Like a reward
The joke is on you buying printed toilet paper with headlines for 100 pennies.
You and you too, brotha. You and you too, sista girl.
They ain’t putting your obituary on the front page
Nor the back
You crazy if you think you’ll make the actual numbered ink page
Cause you were the best black friend ever!
Winnie Mandela was the first social worker in apartheid South Africa
Kahun, Egypt, a worker’s village, was the world’s first planned city, occupied until the 13th dynasty
Alexander III invaded Syria and Egypt in 331-332 BCE, stealing knowledge to start Greek mythology
But facts don’t matter
Because The Hollywood Reporter has that studio intel reel
To interview the Academy leadership
George and Brad, Matt and Jen, Julia and Tom
They don’t complain that their friends Denzel and Jamie and Angela and Regina and Lupita and Latifah and Spike and Oprah deserve better roles
Not to Phillipe Dauman or Brad Grey or Harvey Weinstein, they don’t
Rod Blagejovich tricked the state legislature, then sold out the chair in his own house of cards
Carol Moseley Braun sat there first, and left a platform
Jean Baptiste Du Sable founded Chicago, trading fur on the river and off the Great Lakes
But facts don’t matter
Because The Tribune Company of Chicago is The American Paper for The Americans
The good Americans that don’t see color except white
When those Chicago Southside Hitmen got that World Series before the Cub Kool-Aid cup, designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, was finished
Finishing the Queen’s English from ‘although’ to ‘altho’ like Mortal Kombat
Even though their boy Senator McCarthy said that the communists are coming
Since Truman didn’t really defeat Dewey
Many know now that Haiti had African settlers and traders before the colonists’ arrival to the New World
Marjora Carter looked at the Bronx River through her window and saw green trees, not vials and cracked windows
New York Life sold insurance policies on enslaved Africans, while Lehman Brothers rose on their backs then crashed on the junk bonds of their children who built the damb buildings!
But facts don’t matter
Because The New York Times is ‘All The News That’s Fit to Print’
We’ll conserve key facts when it serves the public good on Monday
On Friday, when we need to let the long, grey locks flow for Jimi Hendrix tonight, we’ll wave that freak flag high
On Sunday, we’ll fill out the crossword puzzle, then deface the Palestinian in that Gaza comic strip
On Tuesday, we hire Jayson Blair. He’s black, so our readers don’t think he can read. But he’s a really nice guy.
Still, we think all blacks are liars. He does just that.
But we keep him because he’s black and it makes us look good at the book review club.
We fire him on Friday. His day off, like Craig.
We know. We know.
All of these facts are online.
Matter o’ fact, that’s why these publishers’ ink ribbons done dried up.
Because their printed ventriloquism got lost in the cloud server
Exposing that type of writer
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