Bamboozled No More! Every Time
Politics, social commentary and the occasional humorous aside from Janet Cormier.
Politics, social commentary and the occasional humorous aside from Janet Cormier.
Haiku: For Ferguson Wisteria gathers Tinged boys die as mothers cry Flower pickin' time... Photography © Rachel Copans Jacques Fleury is the author of Sparks in [...]
I hoped the headline was wrong. But there it was, the New York Times reported that the US Justice Dept. planned to release Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing regarding the [...]
Unarmed black man shot and killed by an armed and trained white Police Officer happens far too many times in the United States. The scenario has been repeated so often, [...]
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Maybe maybe...this is the poem that shouldn't even be written maybe it's not even a poem and... maybe I'm not even a poet maybe poetry ain't real maybe this is [...]
Recognize fourth quarter announcement bold half time over stadium rumble crowd roars protest score ejected system yet this twisted game plays on... who is gon make it to the [...]
We all feel it. At the meeting to plan to protest the evacuation of hundreds of Boston’s homeless Citizen’s because of the derelict bridge from Long Island the push was [...]
I wasn’t surprised when by the Ferguson jury found Officer Wilson innocent of killing Michael Brown. The verdict wasn’t based on concerns about justice; the jury had one mission to [...]
Freedom Tower you may have choked the child but this family's voice aint never gon drown strip us of weapons made for death sentence still we bear our [...]
Missouri Goddamn Nina Simone is turning over in her grave— no longer a Midwest Mind just like Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee your state is stuck rewinding back to a Southern reality [...]
Poster © Secret Genius Forget Me Not pigs placed on paid vacation after foulin out playin racial extermination prejudice dispostion backed by bogus basic instinct silenced [...]
The Black man is an Island The Black man is an island, entire in himself; No black man Is a piece of the American continent, a part of the main. [...]
The Ferguson Apocalypse Missouri, U.S.A. 2014 From shimmering oil of ebony still will come flailing of limbs will come hacking quick slashing of hands now untied tattooing no pattern not [...]
Hannah Brown's day in Ferguson, Missouri this past Monday, November10, anticipating a Supreme Court ruling on the Michael Brown case. Photography © Hannah Brown A local protestor [...]
Hannah Brown, an Oddball Contributor, joined the activist front at Ferguson, Missouri, anticipating a Supreme Court ruling on the Michael Brown case. While she was only able to stay for [...]
A gun is not a hammer. Not a tool to be left in its box, Collecting dust until needed A gun won't let you forget where you put it. A [...]
Another night in Ferguson I saw some strangers marching like the drumbeats of the blues; all I hear is gunshots they said the rainbows fading from the bleeding on their [...]
Ferguson Will Roll Ferguson will roll until we turn the volume down and have no need to seek concussions in the street. Now we joust to prove that black and [...]
Barack Obama is the First African-American President of the United States. Concurrently, historians should note that he has been the Most Unprotected President in US history. Liberals viewed his Presidency [...]
Thank You August 26, 2014 Thank You. Thank You. It is so good to stand here before you It is so good to speak to you of love thank you [...]
No Angel No Angels are buried here. But, if they were, would their wings be taken, and saved, and placed on top of their unmarked graves like [...]
Mister America --on white privilege, white allyship, and the fact that acting on the latter rests on a recognition of the former-- Mister America Your fingers are long and thin [...]
On August 9, 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year old young black man was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting was followed [...]