After Giving Lil DriveBy the Key to the City

Let's workshop this poem about virtue-signaling attempts to fight the false bogeyman of white supremacy instead of doing the hard work of fighting the cultural attitudes behind black failings

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After Giving Lil DriveBy the Key to the City

In a “one-two 
against white supremacy,”
the city threatened 
budget cuts if its schools 

did not stop suspending
“so many future 
Black kings” and banned
release of mugshots

(“alarmingly almost
always Black”) “in an effort
to curb the pandemic 
of antiblackness.”

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