Slavery
Interviewing Hitler about Genocide
Interviewing Hitler about Genocide by An American Prosecutor I walk into his cell and say, “Don’t worry, you’ll be treated as fairly today as your Nazi colleagues were at the Nuremberg trials.” Hitler scowls at me and ignores my extended hand. “Would you prefer a prompt return to what you’ve long been, charred dust…
Byline: Ex-Slave Gordon
You’ve seen me. You’ve seen me many times and would like to forget. But you can’t. I won’t let you. More importantly, the people who did this wanted everyone to remember I belonged to them and when I escaped they and their bloodhounds chased me several days through mosquito-filled swamps and forests and dragged me…
Emotions and Statistics from Ferguson
The usual suspects right and left are respectively railing that police are always justified in using force in ghettoes or they’re never justified in so doing especially if the alleged criminal descended from slaves. There’s no need to refute Al Sharpton, race baiter and riotous agitator extraordinaire, or columnist Leonard Pitts, a self-proclaimed introvert who’s…
Employment Agent
This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
John Wilkes Booth Today
We mustn’t permit deed of John Wilkes Booth to stand and therefore shall remove from time and place and raise today in theatrical family thriving in Manhattan and nod when Hollywood beckons splendid Booth who becomes movie star in early twenties making millions while he drinks and snorts and occasionally crashes cars but fires only…
John Wilkes Booth Today
mustn’t permit deed of john wilkes booth to stand instead remove from that time and place and raise today in theatrical family thriving in manhattan and nod when hollywood beckons splendid booth becomes movie star in his early twenties making millions while drinks snorts and occasionally crashes cars but fires only slurred words To see…
Nat Turner Now
you’re no longer nat turner but a different color cracker