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Holding the Color Line

6/28/2017

 

McConnell brought the country down
    And he was glad to do it,
Lest Negroes from Chicago town
And other places of renown
Demand White Privilege be mown
    Down with the laws that strew it.

He had to find a way to stop
    Obama from appointing
A nigger-loving judge to bop
With the Supremes; so Mitch let drop
Pretense of justice at the top
    Through Gorsuch's anointing.

The Silver Fox, the White Man's Hack,
    Gorsuch became the ringer
To help Mitch bring the profits back,
Supremacists on the attack
Odds in their favor so to stack— 
    To favor goals right-winger.

When law cannot achieve your ends
    Then tear that framework down,
This Mitch McConnell knew—with friends
He schemed (though chaos it portends)
And rent the Constitution, rends,
    To claim chaos his own.

The more he strove to tear, malign
    Obama through his malice,
The world observed all was not fine:
The Party shouted “Mine mine mine!”
While holding fast the color line
    But let its heart grow callous.

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