[Ramius]

Is this actually a speech, or is it some unrealistic parody?

[Pro-Bush]

It was a real poem, he was New Jersey's poet laureate. From salon.com (sic):

Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) warned New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey that he would "catch hell," for honoring Baraka with the title last July. The poet made good on his promise at the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival in Stanhope, N.J., on Sept. 19. Baraka read the now-notorious poem "Somebody Blew Up America," in which he suggested that 4,000 Israelis stayed home from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 because they had advance warning of the attacks. The following lines were met with boos from the crowd:

[MEG33]

That is what is now called poetry in the halls of higher learning,among the literary elites.