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Black Agenda Report: Club None Long To Belong To"* (Poem)

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If you know your history / then you would know / where you coming from / then you wouldn't have to ask me / who the heck do I think I am...

Bob Marley, "Buffalo Soldier"

Here is a poem by BAR's resident poet Raymond Nat Turner. Note how the art installment picks up pace and intensity like a Langston Hughes dream too long deferred. In your face, mofo.

And the poet's name partly comes to us from the slavery rebeller by any means necessary (before Malcolm), Nat Turner. 

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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