Are you a Franklin?? If so, you may notice that the integration project is not going as advertised. Your Black excellence got you there, but what has being there got you? What if one day, after being merely a dark token, you—like Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George—had to depend on the power of the cornrow and even steal lil man’s drum to get your full Blackness back? COVID and Chemo invite you to our consideration of the costs of life as a Franklin. Also, first American President George Washington had slave teeth. As always, #staywoke.