Sold-Out and Fictional Black Heroes Leading Blacks to Destruction
by Sabrina Dawkins
Michael B. Jordan took your money.
He didn’t take mine
’cause I didn’t watch his movie.
But I’ve heard Killmonger
was supposed to be Huey Newton
of the Black Panthers,
a fake hero who killed a black woman,
but, oh, what a pleasant hero phantom.
TV fiends stuck in the Bay Area TV dream,
especially the ones in the California epicenter
of Hollywood’s brain tornado make-believe.
Fake thugs and opportunists
even make it to legitimacy,
college professors like Dyson
quoting and elevating Tupac and Jay-Z,
Louis Farrakhans with a pro-black Nipsey’s hustle
because the real leader was X’d.
You’re still wearing a Malcolm gold pendant necklace
as if he would approve of selling drugs and Crips,
the disrespect of black women in rap lyrics.
But Dyson makes thugs sound righteous,
like poison going down with sweet syrup.
And they poison the music,
the Hollywood thugs.
And they poison pro-black education,
Angela Davises and Michael Eric Dysons.
And here’s a question from Booker T. Washington,
“But what do these teachers actually do?”
And I’d tell him,
Like Nikki Giovanni,
they get a ‘Thug Life’ tattoo
and tell blacks to vote Democrat
so they can protest at McDonald’s
when they don’t get their welfare check.
Israel’s children have forgotten
your colleague George Washington Carver,
who taught laborious gardening.
Fat and kicking, they have said,
“Let us make a captain,
and let us return into Egypt.” (Numbers 14:4)
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4