Poetic News, Monday October 7 2019

We consider whether or not machines or climate change pose a bigger threat to working class African Americans.

wimpy af
Poetic News
1 min readOct 7, 2019

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Tax the rich.
Feed the poor.
A green Robin Hood contraption
as old as capitalism.

via New York Times

We’ve heard it all before,
except this time, the planet
burns in raging theatre
— an extinction rebellion in red.

Between the lines,
automation. Machines took our
jerbs,
said African Americans.
A bottomline both red and black.

via NPR
via Mckinsey

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wimpy af
Poetic News

Archivist moonlighting as a poet and painter. I tell the news through poems at @PoeticNews. The AF is for Afrofuturist. IG:@wimpyaf