Black Disabled Guerrilla Intellectualism
My elder told me
“Bring it back to the community!”
I don’t have any choice with the high unemployment rate
University couldn’t and didn’t want to use their bait
Black Disabled Guerrilla Intellectualism
Fighting the two headed monster
Racism and ableism, deadly together
Lifelong work to erase it from our brothers and sisters
Take from the university and bring it to the community
In these academic halls
Seeing White ghosts
Feeling John Langston Gwaltney
In UCLA’s department of anthropology
The Dissenters are Black disabled Guerrilla Intellectuals
Black blind anthropologist dealt with all kinds of isms
Building on it to establish Black Krip radicalization
To dig up roots of Black disable discrimination
Robin D.G. Kelley put Disability Justice it seems
In the forward of Freedom Dreams
Gaye Theresa Johnson are we in Futures of Black Radicalism
Graduate school gave me time to krip Black Radical Tradition
Black Disabled Guerrilla Intellectualism
Fighting the two headed monster
Racism and ableism, deadly together
Lifelong work to erase it from our brothers and sisters
Take from the university and bring it to the community
In these academic halls
Seeing White ghosts
Feeling John Langston Gwaltney
In UCLA’s department of anthropology
Shouting at my ancestor, Christopher Bell
Disability Studies is still too White
Building on Manning Marble’s the Black intellectual tradition
It’s called, Black Disabled Guerrilla Intellectualism
Dr. Lateef McLeod public intellectual
Speaking through augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
Dr. Dennis Tyler, Disabilities of the Color Line
Yes, it’s about time
Black Male Studies are you ready
Got to dig up journalism
By a Black disabled man,
Elisa Hill was a Republican
In the 19 century
Deep roots of Black disabled guerrilla intellectualism
Need more research
From activism, academic scholarship to Hip-Hop
It’s not the start but the continuation, Krip-Hop
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Part VI “Krip-Hop”: Disability and Hip Hop, more than a chapter
Watch out for Wilfredo Gomez’s dissertation
It’ll shake up Hip-Hop Studies
Black Disabled Guerrilla Intellectualism
Coming at you in all avenues
From Delta’s Blues
Taking back our language from Hyphy
We in these streets
We in these academic halls
Bringing our own archives
We are alive
By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
11/14/24
