CHILD POET: I WAS WRITE ON

The New York Post ^ | 3/15/06 | By DAVID ANDREATTA

[BronzePencil]

Autum Ashante, the 7-year-old poetry prodigy whose work sparked an uproar in a Westchester County school district, made no apologies yesterday, saying she did the right thing. "I feel good about the response," Autum said of the firestorm engulfing the Peekskill City School District, where her recitation of a poem at a high school and a middle school offended students. "I know it was the right thing."

The schools sent recorded phone messages to 3,000 parents last week apologizing for Autum's poem, "White Nationalism Put U In Bondage," which accuses Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin of robbing blacks of their human rights.

Her performance included a recitation of the "Black Child's Pledge," a Black Panther oath of civic responsibility and black pride, in which Autum asked only black and Hispanic students to stand.

Judith Johnson, the Peekskill superintendent, said the performance upset students and she stood by the apology.

"We had kids who were really upset," Johnson said. "We said [to parents], 'If your child was upset, we apologize for that.' There is nothing wrong with that."

New York City Councilman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat and former Black Panther, honored Autum at City Hall and defended her right to address only children of color.

[sheik yerbouty]

Hitler jugend in bowties..

[Gay State Conservative]

What better place for a child of oppression to stick it to whitey than in Westchester County.

The Most Ethical Couple In History would surely have attended if this kids had spoken at the Chappaqua Public Library.

[steel_resolve]

Imagine if you will, a little blue eyed blonde haired girl up there reciting a white power poem. This just goes to show you that it's fine to crack on whites, call them racists, whatever. There's a huge double standard going on here, and as a white male, I gotta tell you - it DOES NOT endear me to minorities when they encourage stuff like this.

[theDentist]

New York City Councilman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat and former Black Panther, honored Autum at City Hall and defended her right to address only children of color. Well then, Mr Barron supports those twin blondes who sing Aryan Nation anthems to sing before white-only crowds, and will honor them as well. Right?

[Kimmers]

....If memory serves me correctly African blacks sold blacks into slavery....

[msnimje]

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have done more to deny blacks their rights than Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin.

Then there is the matter of Margaret Sanger who created Planned Parenthood to reduce the procreation of blacks and other "undesirables."

Sounds like the Prodigy Poet would benefit from a little education.

[OldSmaj]

New York City Councilman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat and former Black Panther, honored Autum at City Hall and defended her right to address only children of color.

Ain't no double standard there.

Nope, no double standard at all.

And you represent all the people, don't you, Mr. Barron?

[BronzePencil]

here's the poem in question

White Nationalism Put U In Bondage

White nationalism is what put you in bondage
Pirate and vampires like Columbus, Morgan, and Darwin
Drank the blood of the sheep, trampled all over them with
Steel, tricks and deceit.
Nothing has changed take a look in our streets
The mis-education of she and Hegro — leaves you on your knee2grow
Black lands taken from your hands, by vampires with no remorse
They took the gold, the wisdom and all of the storytellers
They took the black women, with the black man weak
Made to watch as they changed the paradigm
Of our village
They killed the blind, they killed the lazy, they went
So far as to kill the unborn baby
Yeah White nationalism is what put you in bondage
Pirates and vampires like Columbus, Morgan, and Darwin
They drank the blood of the sheep, trampled all over them with
Steel laden feet, throw in the tricks alcohol and deceit.
Nothing has changed take a look at our streets.

[From One - Many]

I wonder if her parent know they are raising a racist?

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

[jaydubya2]

Wow. I can see some future anger managment issues there. Could be a sucessful democrat.

[Migraine]

Hey, she gots to have her drivel rights...

[uncitizen]

Imagine if you will, a little blue eyed blonde haired girl up there reciting a white power poem.

Unimaginable.

[From One - Many]

I see your point. Her parents know they are raising a racist.

[jra]

Autum. A-U-T-U-M. Nice.

[Labyrinthos]

This was not written by a 7 year old.

[Migraine]

This was not written by a 7 year old.

She may have written it; but someone else definitely inspired it.

[Yaelle]

Who filled a seven-year-old with such hatred? All the seven-year-olds I know are being taught that all colors are equal and we should love everyone. There is an adult behind this sick fevered racism.

[Tulane]

That's what I was thinking...if it had been Blue eyes and blond hair...the stories would be how horrible the kid was (which would be correct)...since the kid was not white, the stories are about a "controversy"...the writers do not condemn her words or the fact that what she stands for is 'reverse' racism.

[Tulane]

Her dad...she was home schooled.

[Holicheese]

what 7 year old uses the word Deceit?

[antiRepublicrat]

....If memory serves me correctly African blacks sold blacks into slavery..

Shhhhh, we're not supposed to know that.

[IronJack]

Black lands taken from your hands

I don't recall any blacks being in the New World before Whitey colonized it. So exactly what "black lands" did the Bad Ole White Man take?

This sounds exactly like what it is: the mental drippings from a diarrhetic 7-year-old. It isn't well written. It doesn't say anything new (far from it). It is simply the same stale litany mumbled by generations of malingerers for the last half a century.

Why is anyone listening to this cretin?

[antiRepublicrat]

here's the poem in question

The girl shows a lot of promising talent. Now if only she could shake the "whitey did it" brainwashing.

And why always whitey?

This 19th-century engraving depicts an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. The trans-Saharan slave trade developed in the 7th and 8th centuries as Muslim Arabs conquered most of North Africa. The trade grew significantly from the 10th to the 15th century and peaked in the mid-19th century.

[rock58seg]

You know as well as I do that the parents are the real cause of this girls' ignorance.

[dynachrome]

"Autum" = "Autumn" ?


No spell check at the hospital?

[HamiltonJay]

This kids not the problem... her parents are... thank God I wasn't raised in that household.

[HamiltonJay]

Are you kidding? You think a 7 year old picked this up on their own? The parents have been seeding this little haters mind since its first breath would be my bet... they are proud as punch of their little darlin I bet.

[HamiltonJay]

Muslims to this VERY DAY still trade black skin like cattle, the UN knows about it, and turns a blind eye....

[rock58seg]

The same kind that uses PARADIGM. Her parent/ghost writer.

[goodnesswins]

ALREADY a Dim Democrat....."I FEEL good...."

[finallyatexan]

And can you imagine what would happen if that little blue eyed blonde was holding a Bible and asked only Christians to stand and recite the Lords Prayer !!!

[cinives]

My thought exactly. What 7yo knows the meaning of the word paradigm, for example ? No, someone wrote this for her and asked her to recite it. And, being the good child of racist (anti-white) parents, she was happy to do so. Obviously she likes the attention she got by doing so.

[Holicheese]

I didn't use the word Paradigm till i was in college. Still have a hard time working it into a scentence.

[antiRepublicrat]

Muslims to this VERY DAY still trade black skin like cattle, the UN knows about it, and turns a blind eye....

Yeah, but it's hard to find images of that.

Even if actual slavery is fairly rare, indentured servitude is common.

In the rare instance when I got to eat in a catered mess tent after the Gulf War it was all Pakistanis and Bangladeshis behind the counter. The Saudis bring them over with promise of income, take their passports, and make them pay back travel, expenses, room and board. It can take years to buy themselves out from under this mess, especially if they're sending money back home (which is usually the reason for going there in the first place).

Of course, with the exception of holding a passport, citrus farmers in Florida do this to Mexican migrant workers too (but in that case they're usually illegal workers).

[Labyrinthos]

I didn't use the word Paradigm till i was in college. Still have a hard time working it into a scentence.

Teacher to seven year old Autum: Please use the word "paradigm in a sentence."

Autum: "Um, um, um... I was walking down the street and saw two dimes on the ground, so I picks dem up and now I have a pairadime."

[bk1000]

"Who filled a seven-year-old with such hatred?"

In another post on the same subject is said her dad is a hate-whitey Black Panther. I guess the apple don't fall far from the tree.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The schools sent recorded phone messages to 3,000 parents last week apologizing for Autum's poem, "White Nationalism Put U In Bondage," which accuses Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin of robbing blacks of their human rights.

So she's a racist and a creationist???

[bjc]

Quiz: Miss, what ship did Darwin sail on? Where did he go? Was he ever in Africa? Did he own slaves? Did he support slavery? What is a "paradigm"?

This poem seems to me like a put up job - inspired and probably written by a parent and a parent who was totally ignorant of where Darwin stood on the issue of slavery. Like many scientists in England and Europe at the time, slavery was treated as an abomination and Darwin was an abolitionist. In Voyage of the Beagle he wrote an extraordinarily moving denunciation of slavery, its evils and the fundamental immorality of those who supported slavery, directly or indirectly:
Chapter XXI
....
On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil, I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master’s eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish colony, in which it has always been said, that slaves are better treated than by the Portuguese, English, or other European nations. I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face. I was present when a kind-hearted man was on the point of separating forever the men, women, and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil. Such people have generally visited at the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated; land they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. Such inquirers will ask slaves about their condition; they forget that the slave must indeed be dull, who does not calculate on the chance of his answer reaching his master’s ears. 34
It is argued that self-interest will prevent excessive cruelty; as if self-interest protected our domestic animals, which are far less likely than degraded slaves, to stir up the rage of their savage masters. It is an argument long since protested against with noble feeling, and strikingly exemplified, by the ever-illustrious Humboldt. It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of you wife and your little children—those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own—being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one’s blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty: but it is a consolation to reflect, that we at least have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation, to expiate our sin.
http://www.bartleby.com/29/21.html

Ignorance is dangerous.

[L98Fiero]

"I wonder if her parent know they are raising a racist?"\

Umm, I think that is their goal.

[reagan_fanatic]

New York City Councilman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat and former Black Panther, honored Autum at City Hall and defended her right to address only children of color.

You can damn well bet that if this were a white girl wanting to address only white children, Charles Barron would have popped a blood vein and had a stroke.

Racism is ugly, no matter what color it comes in.

Charles Barron is a racist.

[Mr. Rational]

"Poetry Prodigy"?

Another aspiring "artist" who thinks being "in your face" is the primary requirement of "artists".

This girl is a victim of child abuse. I think a call to child services is in order. Training someone to hate is child abuse.

I mean - seriously - this borders on a Steve Martin skit where he said he would teach his kids all the wrong words for things, so they would say weirds stuff when they went to school (like the word for pencil is banana, etc.)

[Nova]

"Imagine if you will, a little blue eyed blonde haired girl up there reciting a white power poem."

Or possibly a Christian publishing a cartoon containing a depiction of Muhammad...

[SauronOfMordor]

Well then, Mr Barron supports those twin blondes who sing Aryan Nation anthems to sing before white-only crowds, and will honor them as well. Right?

Yes, I remember a bunch of negative coverage of the two girls ("Prussian Blue" they call themselves, not to be confused with the brit blues band of the same name)

[Cecily]

She can't top the master:

Images by Tyrone Greene

Dark and lonely on a summer's night
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Watchdog barking
Do he bite?
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Slip in his window
Break his neck
Then his house
I start to wreck
Got no reason
What the heck
Kill my Landlord
Kill my landlord
C-I-L-L
my l a n d l o r d



Seriously, does this girl have even the slightest clue regarding what is going on in Africa right now? Sudan in particular.

[ShadowDancer]

Hahahaha, one of my favorites from when SNL was actually worth watching.

[bad company]

what 7 year old uses the word Deceit?

Or paradigm? I smell a fraud.

[StarFan]

I wonder if her parent know they are raising a racist?

She's being raised solely by an encouraging father and I suspect the words you read are his as I don't believe a seven year old wrote it.