In just two minutes, a slam poet has summed up the emotionally exhausting deja vu of police brutality, and she did it all through Mad Libs. Performing a poem called "Mad Libs: Black Death Edition" at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, poet Charlotte Abotsi emphasizes how tragically frequent black deaths at the hands of police are by reciting hypothetical police reports, news articles, and Facebook statuses that sound all too familiar -- all you need to do is fill in the blanks. �...
This Poet Made A Police Brutality Mad Lib, And It's Devastating
The Huffington Post - 23 Mar 2016 19:18
In just two minutes, a slam poet has summed up the emotionally exhausting deja vu of police brutality, and she did it all through Mad Libs. Performing a poem called "Mad Libs: Black Death Edition" at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, poet Charlotte Abotsi emphasizes how tragically frequent black deaths at the hands of police are by reciting hypothetical police reports, news articles, and Facebook statuses that sound all too familiar -- all you need to do is fill in the blanks. �...
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