Tiny Town, USA – Visible proof that the Commies were way ahead of the rest of us, including ahead of the Whig Party, is now wheelchair accessible to one and all.
An area stencil artist has provided us with a historical footnote often overlooked in chronicles of the Underground Railroad.
Now folks, lissen. The better part of wisdom tells one not to shit too close to the nest. But at my advanced age, I can't get out of town fast enough to abide by that, so here goes.
We, the peepholes, are confused by the artwork on the Route 96 underpass along Green Street. Oh, yes. Art work it is compared to the shite passing for public art plastered on the sides of the Green Street parking garage. The persons behind that "art", are, plainly and stately, a bunch of goddamn fools.
But they let one get away with this random act of historical revision: Harriet Tubman, Communist Sistah. Maybe Malcolm X could say so, maybe Eldridge Cleaver before his visit with Castro converted him into a babbling Christian on Robert Schuler's Hour of Power ... But even the brilliant Frederick Douglass would have to wonder about Harriet being tapped as a "comrade."
Also this question: Why did the black stencil artist, if we may assume, get the Route 96 underpass? Because his/her message is radical?
We await word from The Gino Bush League of Street Renamers for the following proposals: the Frederick Douglass Blvd and the Comrade Tubman Thoroughfare. You see, renaming things after dead people fixes history. Personally, we've been banking on a Madame Blavatsky Skyline and a Mahatma Ghandi Blvd., but fair is fair and black is black.
Also, aren't we stealing Harriet from Auburn? According to the history books, she only tarried here when the Underground Railroad, (the original Chunnel from the Deep South to the Streets of Harlem), was still the Native American's equivalent of a Silk Route from the Missouri Breaks to Hard Times. She actually LIVED in Auburn for much of her life. Is Tiny Town so bereft of heroines we must steal from the less fortunate?
If Harriet were a Comrade, where does that leave the Beechers? Were they Commies too? Were the Abolitionists really Commies? Did the North fight the South for freedom and Democracy or a Centralized State?
Think this through, my bruthas and sistahs. Abe Lincoln -- was he really Jewish and a homosexual? Was Robert E. Lee -- the last American who was in fact, fighting to protect states rights and the spread of big government and, with Jefferson Davis, seeking a way to transition slaves to the payroll because England and France [their biggest clients] were pressuring them to do so?
History is a mess -- like the stenciled lines on the underpass mural which is worthy of closer examination -- but a contained mess. The present is the real problem. I'm as racist as the next person in this town and this is a very racist Tiny Town from all sides of the Sherwin Williams color spectrum.
But, Comrade Tubman? That kinda throws a monkey wrench in the whole business. Not that there's anything wrong with monkey wrenches.
– C. Penbroke Handy, some times C. Pembroke Handy, some times someone else entirely.
Kristal Lorraine Forest, formerly of Ithaca , was living with her two Calcutta street-dogs in Campo Verde, Arizona, when she decided that if she moved to Mexico, she could get by on her Social Security payments alone. 
