The black speaker
The fact reader,
The pack leader
The morning show host, poet and rap teacher&
The word slanger
The mind wrangler
The star handler
The LL Cool J bamboo earring jingle jangler
The deferred dream dangler
The joke slanger
The myth mangler.
The paid amateur
The man handler
The irreverent star spangled banner mangler
Societys pan handler
J rude damaga
They cant handle a&&.

Fire breathing black girl
With soft lips and hard facts
Who just might try to mobilize blacks
for a soft spoken verbal attack
And yall just aint havin that !

Unless of course its February

Why then youll even pay her for her fire.
Shes a walking talking 11 months of forgiveness for hire.
With the red, the black AND THE GREEEEEEEN &..
Ignorance pelts off her
Cuz she uses her Black steel in the hour of chaos cream.
And dont mind her militant stance, underneath them military fatigues,
she doin the neutron dance!
With a wide teeth smile for days.
Cuz she knows at least for the month of February her rent will be paid.

She doin the school lecture circuit
But these boys dont wanna hear about steven biko, zora neale or marcus garvey either
They want to throw well rehearsed black star lines at the female guest speaker.
And what about the bored looking girl in the black?
The sad sojourner truth is,
she could give a what about Dorothy Dandridge
But this assembly is the closest thing she could get to a billie holiday.
Or at least some time away,
From her science prof,
whose receding hairline is going prematurely James Baldwin
and is expecting her Tuskegee experiment lab result to be called in.

I mean she bought the Booker T but didnt Nat turner any pages.
She knew how to Langston USE a dictionary,
But to Richard wright down all points wouldve taken ages.
So shell just Rosa Park her Harriet Tubman and give her Sonia Sanchez smile
And with a Malcolm little bit of luck escape from math class for a while.

Is this thing on?
Tip the bartender,

Well be here all month.