madame zenobia's

according to his logic, since he claims that if we abort black babies, then the crime rate would go down. well then, if we abort all white, male babies, the incidents of white collar crime would decrease. right? that means that we wouldn't have to worry about another ken lay coming along and robbing folks of their pensions. and i am not trying to speak ill of the dead (i was raised better than that) but still...

i would like to spend some time with bennett. i tried to find his blog or some kind of way to share my comments with him. but whatever...what difference does it make? i imagine that talking to a william bennett is like screaming in the wind. your words are just blown back in your face--they sting your eyes and pinch your lips. i guess what really trips me up is that as a nation, we didn't demand he apologize for that mess that spewed from his mouth. what he said wasn't only offensive to black folks...sanction him, fire him, fine him, or something. but don't do nothing.

i'm so over william bennett and his crew. here's one black baby he should be watching out for...i don't forget shit.

poem of the day

"for the record: in memory of Eleanor Bumpers"
Audre Lorde

Call out the colored girls
and the ones who call themselves Black
and the ones who hate the word nigger
and the ones who are very pale

Who will count the big fleshy women
the grandmother weighing 22 stone
with the rusty braids
and a gap-toothed scowl
who wasn't afraid of Armageddon
the first shotgun blast tore her right arm off
the one with the butcher knife
the second blew out her heart
through the back of her chest
and I am going to keep writing it down
how they carried her body out of the house
dress torn up around her waist
uncovered
past tenants and the neighborhood children
a mountain of a Black Woman
and I am going to keep telling this
if it kills me
and it might in ways I am
learning

The next day Indira Gandhi
was shot down in her garden
and I wonder what these two 67-year-old
colored girls
are saying to each other now
planning their return
and they weren't even
sisters.