Gedichte aus dem Buch feministische w_orte
Aktuell: Don’t let the fascists speak, von Pat Parker
(abgedruckt in: Parker, Pat (1999): Movement in Black (expanded edition). Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books: 92ff.)
don’t let the fascists speak
‚don’t let the fascists speak.‘
,we want to hear what they have to say.’
,keep them out of the classroom.’
,everybody is entitled to freedom of speech.’
i am a child of America
a step child
raised in the back room
yet taught
taught how to act
in her front room.
my mind jumps
the voices of students
screaming
insults
threats
let the nazis speak
let the nazis speak
everyone is entitled
to speak.
i sit reasy-legged
Black child
in a Black school
in the Black part of town
look to a Black teacher.
the bill of rights
guarantees
us all the rights
my mind remembers
chants
article i
article i
& my innards churn
they remember
the Black teacher
in the Black school
in the Black part
of the very white town
who stopped us
when we attacked
the puppet prinicipal
the white board
of mis-education
cast-off books
illustrated with cartoons &
words of wisdom
written by white
children in the
other part of town
missing pages
caricatures
of hanging niggers
the bill of rights
was written to
protect
us
my mind remembers
& my innards churn
conjures images
police
break up
illegal demonstrations
illegal assemblies
conjures images
a Black panther
if tricky dick
tries to stop us
we’ll stop him
conjures images
that same Black man
going to jail
for threatening
the life of
THE PRESIDENT
every citizen
is entitled to
freedom of speech
my mind remembers
& my innards churn
conjures images
of jews in camps
of homosexuals in camps
of socialists in camps
let the nazis speak
let the nazis speak
faces in a college
classroom
you’re being facist too
we want to hear what they have to say
faces in a college
classroom
young white faces
speak let them speak
speak let them speak
Blacks jews some whites
seize the bullhorn
we don’t want to hear
your socialist rhetoric
socialist rhetoric
survival
rhetoric
the supreme court
says it is illegal
to scream fire
in a crowded theater
to scream fire
in a crowded theater
causes people to panic
to run
to hurt each other
my mind remembers
& now i know
what my innards
say
illegal to cause
people
to panic
to run
to hurt
there is
no contradiction.
what the nazis say
will cause
people
to hurt
ME.
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