(ThyBlackMan.com) I just came out of my home studio. I wrote a song called Laura Loomer Please Stop, for really complex reasons that had a lot to do with my life as a father to a daughter, Kathryn Cherise. She is a brilliant young woman and she has recently earned her PhD from the University of Maryland. I told her often that she should reach for the sky and she has. What Laura Loomer said about Black women in power was so repugnant to me that I had to go to work immediately to write this song:
[Verse 1]
Laura Loomer please stop attacking Black women in the press!
You are viewed in the world as a total hot mess.
Sonny Charles and the Checkmates would be ashamed of you,
Espousing racism in the way that you do.
Picking on Black women that are the cream of the crop,
Shut your mouth gal…it’s got to stop.
[Chorus]
You probably had no friends of distinction in your high school days,
Hatred is the only tool you recognize anyways.
Stop this madness and apologize…
Don’t let your life be compromised.
[Verse 2]
I know you must have a lot of time to fill,
Trying to impress likeminded friends on Capitol Hill.
The world is watching as you make a fool of yourself,
Put your foolish pride and the racism on the shelf.
Denigrating sisters who have made the world a better place,
That’s not the way it’s done according to God’s Grace.
[Chorus]
Please remember the Golden Rule,
Your deeds are coming back to you…don’t be a fool!
One day you’ll look back with regret at what you’ve done,
Especially in the eyes of your daughter or son.
[Bridge]
You know full well you sought to curry favor with a party of one…DJT,
The White House is surely proud of you,
Please stop these foolish verbal attacks… it only shows the brains you lack.
[Outro]
So take a moment, pause, and reflect,
The impact of your words can cause so much wreck,
Choose love over hate, let kindness drop,
Laura Loomer please stop, just let it stop.
Laura Loomer Please Stop!
Copyright (c) 2026
TriDreams Productions Inc
Stanley G Buford
What Laura Loomer Actually Said
Last week, Laura Loomer attacked five college educated black women who are among the most influential individuals in the United States via a video on Twitter. In the video, Laura refers to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Democratic Congresswomen Angie Nixon, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush as “ghetto Black b****es” among other derogatory terms. The word “ghetto” is very important here and holds centuries of pain and intent to demean and insult people of lower socioeconomic status who are often Black and of marginalization compared to people of higher status and of other races. Her justification? “Stereotypes exist for a reason,” she concluded emphatically.
Congresswoman Angie Nixon responded the way that a woman who has been dealing with this her whole life responds – with crystal clearness and without ducking. “Been called a dog, a m*nkey, an a*e and g*rilla” Angie Nixon told Newsweek. “But I’m going to keep speaking truth to power.” Even Marjorie Taylor Greene saw fit to disown Loomer, writing that “The Republican Party owns Laura Loomer and her nonstop vitriol.” When Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason in a battle, you know that you’ve crossed a line.
This Is Not New. This Is the Old Playbook.
Scholars have long named the hatred of Black women that combines racism and sexism as “misogynoir”. So, what Laura Loomer did isn’t random, it is strategic and intended to accomplish one goal: to make black women seem less, to diminish their credentials, and to reduce a Supreme Court Justice to a slur.
The word “ghetto” is inscribed with centuries of racism and hatred toward black people. Initially it described bad neighborhoods where marginalized people lived due to segregation, redlining, and other forms of government neglect. But today it’s largely used by a further emancipated class to denigrate people of a lower socioeconomic status. Loomer knows exactly what she is doing when she uses it. This is a choice, not ignorance.
The scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote that the wealth gap in America is not an accident but the logical result of deliberate policy decisions. The same is true of these attacks on Black women in public life. They follow an old, well-documented playbook: weaponize ugly stereotypes to distract from the substance of what these women are actually doing and saying.
Black Pearl: The Song That Stayed With Me
As I began writing Laura Loomer Please Stop, I couldn’t get out of my head one other song in the archives of a bygone era. In 1969, Sonny Charles & The Checkmates recorded “Black Pearl,” which was produced by Phil Spector and penned by Tony Wine, Irwin Levine and Spector himself. The single hit its peak at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and No. 8 on the R&B Chart. But its impact far exceeded any chart success.
Toni Wine – who wrote it – explains why he wrote it: “It was a very tough period. A lot of the Black women were depicted as being housekeepers, rather than having positions in companies, whether they were capable or not. And it was about time to have a song putting them on a pedestal.”
I thought the chorus of this song from decades ago was so pretty and I still sing in the chorus: “Black pearl, precious little girl — you’ve been in the background much too long.” The song was inspired by the Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy about a Black woman who had spent 9 years of her life as a maid and finally went back to school to pursue her education and her life. This song was a declaration in 1969 when it was written. The declaration still needs to be made in 2026.
That is where my song comes from. Laura Loomer Please Stop is my version of that same declaration — updated for a moment when the Supreme Court has a Black woman on it, when Black women chair congressional committees and pass legislation, and when one particular loud voice keeps trying to drag them back into a box they were never meant to fit inside.
My Daughter, Kathryn Cherise
I have to tell you about my daughter. Kathryn Cherise recently finished her PhD. at the University of Maryland. She has gone further than anyone in my family ever has to attain such height. When she walked across that stage, I thought about all of the generations before her who were dismissed by the world and told to stay in the background and to be quiet, and to be small. I thought about women in Sonny Charles’ song – carrying other peoples’ children while their own dreams wait.
I told Stinky, a nickname given to her at birth; shortly after I changed her first diaper. “Kathryn the sky is the limit,” I believed that then and I believe it now. But when I heard Laura Loomer call educated, accomplished Black women in public office those names — I felt something shift inside me. Not just anger. Grief. Because Kathryn is stepping into a world where some people still see her and think of her only in slurs, no matter her credentials.
That is why I wrote the song, not to argue politics and not to score points. I wrote this song for my daughter to know that her achievements will be recognized and her excellence celebrated and acknowledged and not perceived through someone else’s fear.
What the Song Says
Laura Loomer Please Stop is not a hate song. It is not even an angry song, exactly. The song is exhausted. So am I. It is the type of song that is written from exhaustion of watching attacks repeat themselves across generations with different names but the same bile.
It says: we see you and we know what you are doing. And we are not going back. The women you sought to destroy through hate filled rants on public media- Ketanji, Angie, Ilhan, Ayanna and Cori – worked their way up to public office through hard work and sacrifice. Their credentials cannot be touched by your racist slurs.
Sonny Charles sang in 1969 that the Black woman had been in the background much too long. More than fifty years later, she is at the highest levels of American public life — on the Supreme Court, on the floor of Congress, in laboratories and lecture halls and operating rooms. The background is not where she belongs. With all due respect, Laura Loomer, please stop pretending otherwise.
Closing Thoughts: The Sky Still Has No Limit
I am very proud of what I created in my home studio. The song was derived from true feelings of love of a father to his daughter, her accomplishments, and anger at the destruction of achievements that people have given their lives, sweat and everything to earn.
Black Pearl was written for a generation of Black women to place them on a pedestal for whom they could be adored. Laura Loomer Please Stop was composed fifty-seven years later to defend that same principle with equal urgency and love.
To Kathryn Cherise: the sky is still the limit for you. Let no loud voice, old playbook or threatened ego convince you otherwise. You worked very hard to earn that PhD. You sacrificed a lot to get to where you are today. You are not in the background anymore. Amen!
Associate Editor; Stanley G. Buford
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