racism
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The Sin of Sinners
I’m still struggling to digest Sinners. It was brilliant until the film decided to make the music of oppressed indigenous people from Northwest Europe, Scots and Irish–the latter victims of a genocide–the new “Devil’s Music.“ Why not silly cracker music like Turkey in the Straw and My Old Kentucky Home? Why not outright minstrel music?… Continue reading
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Understanding P@l€st1ne
As Trump and Netenyahu plot the harvest of their fruits from the Palestinian genocide, I want you to help you understand the Palestinian point of view. Forget what any God said; the gods of indigenous Americans promised them the North American continent. This was a purely geo-political transaction to plant the West’s flag in the… Continue reading
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They Themselves Have No Papers
They do not come in the nightlike the frights of childhood.In broad daylight, in masks in unmarked trucks and SUVs;without insignia, without badgeswithout the necessary legal papers–they themselves have no papers–to seize people off the streetfor being brown while employed,for speaking Spanish in public.It’s as if they launched a pogromagainst the European honey beefor daring… Continue reading
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Old Black Joe
“I’m a comin’ I’m a comin ‘though my head is hanging low.” These lyrics were sung in some forgotten cartoon of my youth by a stereotypical bipedal hound dog. Only recently when they popped into my head a couple of times that I discover they were taken from the lyrics of “Old Black Joe” by… Continue reading
About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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Well Bottom Blues 