Bigotry Doesn'T Require An Advanced Degree Poem by Sidi Mahtrow

Those of the higher order
Have been quick to add to the disorder
Surrounding the poorly worded stance
Of the Nobel Prize Winner of Science
Who with a blunderbuss statement
Brought about his replacement
In the hole of Wood
Where in good standing he once stood.

While his sweeping generalization
Seemed to include all the African Nations,
His critics (and perhaps Watson too)
Seemed to make much ado
About the intelligence of those
Who are less endowed as IQ shows,
Than those of skins so white
But they forgot in the light
Or is it in Africa's darkness
They forgot that also included is
Egypt, Algeria and Morocco's
Certainly not black as those
In Nations further south
That are the subject Bigots talk about.

So while Watson may have been misquoted
His sins will not soon go unreported,
But what of those intellectual snobs
Who join the chorus
To remind us how smart and unbiased they are
In matters of bigotry.

Let the Wall Street Journal write
Of the similarity of humans, black or white
And attack Watson for his propensity
To speak without unanimity,
While his so called intellectual friends
Are quick to condemn and make no amends.

Watson asked forgiveness for his mistake
But the community will rejoice in the wake
And bury this one whose tongue
Acted as the shovel to dig his very grave.

Good by James Watson
May you soon rest in Peace.
(Along side Rosalind
Franklin)