hello world
well gang, i suspect this wont be news to you
but ray nagin has sold us out
i got the word from the horses mouth
a participant in a recent meeting w/nagin
in which he laid out his plans for what he calls
bringing new orleans
seems he envisions a new orleans
and instead of developing a fund to help them rebuild
has come up with a plan to offer them $150,000
to give up all rights of return and sign off their property
that he plans to not rebuild their areas until its too late
plans to put it off until they are rooted elsewhere
put if off until they lose hope
seem nagin has this vision of neworleans as an affluent
weekend tourist spot - neworleansland
with just enough poor folk to provide services
and a little bit of local color
i knew something was wrong cause so much of
new orleans
serious effort would have seen some progress
what really makes me feel bad is that the community
decided to ignore its reservations about him
and voted him back in
would have done better w/mitch landrieu
between nagin and bush it doesnt look good, team
doesnt look good at all
new orleans
my source tell me nagin really think he doing a good thing
think he ‘taking new orleans
make me wonder about my own understanding
of what im doing in my own field of struggle
im big on ‘taking the black community into the 21st century’
been called a handkerchief uncle tom for it too
makes me wonder if i too am walking blind
leading my people over a cliff
make me strive to be more aware of my own contradictions
my source say new orleans
what it was before, say we have to face that
(let me make a plea here for authoritative sources of inside information,
yall need to keep the old hoodooman informed – god i love secrets)
my source say that there will be winners and losers
and right now the black community are the losers
say thats inevitable
say the question is how can we mitigate that loss
how can we finesse the hammer
my question as a delta hoodooman:
how do we retain new orleans
of afrospiritual culture in america
the blues, delta spiritwork, about turning adversity
into strength, how are we gon bluework this one, gang
messed around and let the wolf into the henhouse
and you know we should have known better
nagin came in as a tool of new orleans
and now hes proving his worth
the trick got laid when new orleans
tried to get rid of him and run the place straightup
instead of through their colored cut out
guess he convinced them they dont have to
go through all that trouble – got it under control, boss
my mentor, john o killens used to say uncle tom
wasnt really as bad as folk make him out to be
babajohn say uncle tom was conceived as a hero
and has been maligned by history
was reading recently how a popular minstrel entertainment of the
period called uncle tom shows fixed that stereotype in popular culture
babajohn used to say gunga din was a better example of
race traitors being a better white man than the original
the old rootdoctor suggest a new name for race traitor
gunga tom - or even better - gunga nagin
in struggle
rickydoc trickmaster
wouldbe prophet
of the hoodoo way
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