One Person's Poet Is Another Man's Thug

Ronnie Rahisd Lynn

Barbara Bush scheduled a poetry reading that included the works of Langston  Hughes, Emily Dickson, Walt Whitman and it was canceled for some reason related to some Leftist anti war stuff. Really murky what happened.

Now Michelle Obama is having a poetry night, and she’s invited thug gangsta rapper Ronnie Rahisd Lynn, nom de plume “Common” as a poet. We know the kind of verse the above mentioned penned.

Here’s some lovely violence and praise of thuggery that passes for poetry for the Obama’s:

A Letter to the Law

Dem boy wanna talk… [indistinguishable]

Whatcha gon do if ya got one gun?

I sing a song for the hero unsung

with faces on the mural of the revolution

No looking back cos’ in back is what’s done

Tell the preacher, god got more than one son

Tell the law, my Uzi weighs a ton

I walk like a warrior,

from them I won’t run

On the streets, they try to beat us like a drum

In Cincinnati, another brother hung

A guinea won’t see the sun

with his family stung

They want us to hold justice

but you handed me none

The same they did to Kobe and Michael Jackson 

make them the main attraction

Turn around and attack them

Black gem in the rough

You’re rugged enough

Use your mind and nine-power, get the government touch

Them boys chat-chat on how him pop gun

I got the black strap to make the cops run

They watching me, I’m watching them

Them dick boys got a lock of cock in them

My people on the block got a lot of pok* in them

and when we roll together

we be rocking them to sleep

No time for that, because there’s things to be done

Stay true to what I do so the youth dream come

from project building

Seeing a fiend being hung

With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?

Burn a Bush cos’ for peace he no push no button

Killing over oil and grease

no weapons of destruction

How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one

The government’s a g-unit and they might buck young black people

Black people In the urban area one

I hold up a peace sign, but I carry a gun.

Peace, ya’ll.”

Advocating the murder of a President of the United States. Peace out.

Does it bother anyone that the two knuckelheads in the White House thinks this is poetry? This pretty much fits into the Leftist view of the arts and literature. Remember Amiri Baraka, ex-poet laureate of New Jersey? Wrote a lovely anti Semitic piece circa 2002,  Somebody Blew Up America" and was one of the first “Truthers”; America, AKA Republicans, Whites, and George Bush masterminded 9/11, expressed in breathtaking verse.

Just no accounting for taste I guess.