In my opinion the low level pun on Jackson is just a way of saying 'Man, fuck Stonewall Jackson'.
I used to make puns about the 'White House'. Would it be an even lower-level pun now that Obama has lived there. Still...'Man, fuck the White House'.
The third option is this: Racism turns us all into racists at some level. That's the real shame.
As far as if the poem is good enough to be in the New Yorker. I've got no comment on that.
Bill
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