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Maya Angelou Reacts To Zimmerman Trial, Evokes Civil Rights Era
Time Swampland ^ | July 16, 2013 | Maya Rhodan

Posted on 07/16/2013 9:56:14 AM PDT by Biggirl

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To: Biggirl

i’m a poet too.

roses are red
violets are blue
there once was a racist, named maya angelou


41 posted on 07/16/2013 10:20:10 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I want a time machine so I can go back and sue the “importers” for selling defective merchandise...


42 posted on 07/16/2013 10:21:15 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: dead

Elton John already recorded his Trayvon Tribute:

Trayvon wears his gold grill like a crown,
Call his child Skittles, cause he likes the name,
Suspended from the finest school in town.

Trayvon, Trayvon like his money,
makes alot they say.
Spends his days dealing, by the playground way.

He was born a bastard to a ho,
6 weeks past Christmas day.
When the New Tork Times says Clintons great,
Tracy Martin had a son today.

And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
And he shall be Trayvon,
in tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
......he shall be Trayvon.

Trayvon, steals womens jewelry all day,
His family business thrives.
Skittles blows up balloons all day,
Sits on the porch watching them fly.

And Skittles, wants to go to Venus,
and leave Trayvon far behind.
Take a balloon and go sailing,
while Trayvon, Trayvon slowly dies.

And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
And he shall be Trayvon,
in tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
......heeee shaaaall beeee TraaaaayyyyVVVVVVooooooonn.


43 posted on 07/16/2013 10:21:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: shankbear

“Write a poem. Then stuff it.”

Exactly, LOL!


44 posted on 07/16/2013 10:22:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Obadiah

There was some mention of local patches of discoloration or something like that, but I think any talk of “liver damage”, especially as resulting from drug abuse, is stretching it a bit.


45 posted on 07/16/2013 10:22:52 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Biggirl
Maya,
you a lya.
46 posted on 07/16/2013 10:24:31 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: max americana

Boy, is she over-rated. I looked on this site for her poetry. I would put it at the level of a 14-year-old’s.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/


47 posted on 07/16/2013 10:25:01 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Bigg Red

I’d rather listen to Vogon poetry.


48 posted on 07/16/2013 10:25:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Biggirl
I suggest the following experiment for Maya Angelou:

  1. Give her a loaded handgun.
  2. Drop her off in one of the seedier neighborhoods inhabited by feral youths like St. Martin at, say, 10 p.m. some evening.
  3. Tell her that a cab will be waiting to pick her up about a mile away.
  4. See how far she walks before she is tempted to pull out the gun.

49 posted on 07/16/2013 10:25:59 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: oldbrowser
Angelou,
you a foo.
50 posted on 07/16/2013 10:26:01 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Biggirl

I stopped at “poet”.


51 posted on 07/16/2013 10:26:22 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Biggirl

Maya, if you Trayvons think you have a right to play Knockout King with any white you catch alone then you have another think coming.


52 posted on 07/16/2013 10:26:43 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Biggirl

Rush played an audio clip of her, not too long ago, telling of how she fired her shortgun at someone through the door when they were trying to break into her house.

Now, in MY book, THAT was self-defense, ala Geore Zimmerman, who ALSO feared for his life that night. She could’ve EASILY killed whoever was on the other side of that door, DEFENDING HERSELF.

Such bloody hypocrites and not a flippin’ ONE of them EVER gets called on it!


53 posted on 07/16/2013 10:27:21 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

‘shotgun’


54 posted on 07/16/2013 10:27:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: sappy

Hah...U ain’t no poet...”named maya angelou” should be on the next line....see?(grin)


55 posted on 07/16/2013 10:28:47 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance........)
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To: Biggirl

That one man, armed with a gun can actually profile a young man because he is black and end up shooting him dead…It is so painful,” Angelou said in an interview with TIME Monday.

Another idiot with an opinion that did not watch the trial.
NO EVIDENCE was ever provided that Zimmerman profiled Martin. The FBI investigated and could find NO EVIDENCE of racial animosity in Zimmermans background.


56 posted on 07/16/2013 10:30:43 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Biggirl

Just succeeding where Charles Manson failed. Manson was a piker.


57 posted on 07/16/2013 10:32:00 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Biggirl
This old cow should keep her mouth shut..She has no talent just writes down crap and it is published..Oprah's best friend..
58 posted on 07/16/2013 10:33:14 AM PDT by PLD
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To: SteveH
there needs to be a fake maya angelou contest...

And we can write "maya angelou"™ limericks and haikus, too.

59 posted on 07/16/2013 10:33:49 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: chris37

” If ‘ya walking ‘round thinking that the World owes ‘ya
something ‘cause your here.

‘Ya going out the world backward like ‘ya did when ‘ya
first come here.”

Staple Singers, 1972


60 posted on 07/16/2013 10:37:44 AM PDT by maxsand
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