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The Eyes Have It 51%
By Chuck Perkins38%
6/19/2026, 4:01:00 AM
Keywords: Africandiaspora, Ancestralmemory, Callandresponse, Community, Culturalheritage, Poetry, Resilience, Spokenword, Yoruba
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Indoctrination, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 85.2% saturation with 132 hits. Analysis detected 290 faulty-reasoning hits from 155 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.9% and a BS Rank of 51% (15,105 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 50.60% of the article peer group.
But the drums could not be silent.
They were always heard.
When the land became dark,
After the wicked sucked
Virtue from the sun,
The drums brought the light,
And the feet were always listening.
Informed by the past,
They honored the Yoruba in movement,
Backs and hands might surrender,
But the feet never could.
They brought beauty to the ugliest world.
And the feet didn’t go anywhere without the song.
The song believed the sum was better than the parts,
So there was always a response to the call.
You can hear it in the subtle intonations of the crowd,
That what happened to you happened to the rest of us.
*This is an excerpt from the poem "The Eyes Have It," by Lens award-winning contributor Chuck Perkins.
It's excerpted by permission from his new book, Beautiful and Ugly Too, published by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press.
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