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Posted on 10/06/2002 5:30:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
"Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka Somebody Blew Up America
They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring
It wasn't The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of humanity, as they pleases
They say (who say?) Who do the saying Who is them paying Who tell the lies Who in disguise Who had the slaves Who got the bux out the Bucks
Who got fat from plantations Who genocided Indians Tried to waste the Black nation
Who live on Wall Street The first plantation Who cut your nuts off Who rape your ma Who lynched your pa
Who got the tar, who got the feathers Who had the match, who set the fires Who killed and hired Who say they God & still be the Devil
Who the biggest only Who the most goodest Who do Jesus resemble
Who created everything Who the smartest Who the greatest Who the richest Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest
Who define art Who define science
Who made the bombs Who made the guns
Who bought the slaves, who sold them
Who called you them names Who say Dahmer wasn't insane
Who? Who? Who?
Who stole Puerto Rico Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan Australia & The Hebrides Who forced opium on the Chinese
Who own them buildings Who got the money Who think you funny Who locked you up Who own the papers
Who owned the slave ship Who run the army
Who the fake president Who the ruler Who the banker
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the mine Who twist your mind Who got bread Who need peace Who you think need war
Who own the oil Who do no toil Who own the soil Who is not a nigger Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
Who own this city
Who own the air Who own the water
Who own your crib Who rob and steal and cheat and murder and make lies the truth Who call you uncouth
Who live in the biggest house Who do the biggest crime Who go on vacation anytime
Who killed the most niggers Who killed the most Jews Who killed the most Italians Who killed the most Irish Who killed the most Africans Who killed the most Japanese Who killed the most Latinos
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the ocean
Who own the airplanes Who own the malls Who own television Who own radio
Who own what ain't even known to be owned Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
Who own the suburbs Who suck the cities Who make the laws
Who made Bush president Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying Who talk about democracy and be lying
Who the Beast in Revelations Who 666 Who know who decide Jesus get crucified
Who the Devil on the real side Who got rich from Armenian genocide
Who the biggest terrorist Who change the bible Who killed the most people Who do the most evil Who don't worry about survival
Who have the colonies Who stole the most land Who rule the world Who say they good but only do evil Who the biggest executioner
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the oil Who want more oil Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who? Who? Who?
Who found Bin Laden, maybe they Satan Who pay the CIA, Who knew the bomb was gonna blow Who know why the terrorists Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion And cracking they sides at the notion
Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
Who make the credit cards Who get the biggest tax cut Who walked out of the Conference Against Racism Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing? Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
Who invaded Grenada Who made money from apartheid Who keep the Irish a colony Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani, the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral, Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane, Betty Shabazz, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby
Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo, Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, Medgar Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney, Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
Who put a price on Lenin's head
Who put the Jews in ovens, and who helped them do it Who said "America First" and ok'd the yellow stars
Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt Who murdered the Rosenbergs And all the good people iced, tortured, assassinated, vanished
Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo Who invented Aids Who put the germs In the Indians' blankets Who thought up "The Trail of Tears"
Who blew up the Maine & started the Spanish American War Who got Sharon back in Power Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo, Chiang kai Chek
Who decided Affirmative Action had to go Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New Frontier, The Great Society,
Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus Subsidere
Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop, Who poison Robeson, who try to put DuBois in Jail Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey, The Scottsboro Boys, The Hollywood Ten
Who set the Reichstag Fire
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers To stay home that day Why did Sharon stay away?
Who? Who? Who?
Explosion of Owl the newspaper say The devil face cd be seen
Who make money from war Who make dough from fear and lies Who want the world like it is Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror violence, and hunger and poverty.
Who is the ruler of Hell? Who is the most powerful
Who you know ever Seen God?
But everybody seen The Devil
Like an Owl exploding In your life in your brain in your self Like an Owl who know the devil All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell Who and Who and WHO who who Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 911; african; amiribaraka; antisemite; baraka; benny; bet; black; blo; bloods; jew; jewish; krips; kwanzaa; mcgreevey; naacp; newark; newjersey; nj; paulistinians; piney; racism; racist; ronpaul; schools; semitism; sharpton; sprint; wtc
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To: Sub-Driver
And this person is a Poet Laureate???????
Man, those public schools need some SERIOUS work...
To: Chad Fairbanks
He is a Self-Proclaimed America Hater and Commie.
4
posted on
10/06/2002 5:36:35 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: Sub-Driver
Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?
To: Sub-Driver
There once was a poet from Jersey,
Who generated much controversy,
His verses of hate,
Disgraced the whole state,
And now he's hiding in Hershey
To: SamAdams76
"Somebody Blew Up America"
By Amiri Baraka
Somebody Blew Up America
They say its some terrorist,
some barbaric
A Rab,
in Afghanistan
It wasn't our American terrorists
It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads
Or the them that blows up nigger
Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row
It wasn't Trent Lott
Or David Duke or Giuliani
Or Schundler, Helms retiring
It wasn't
The gonorrhea in costume
The white sheet diseases
That have murdered black people
Terrorized reason and sanity
Most of humanity, as they pleases
They say (who say?)
Who do the saying
Who is them paying
Who tell the lies
Who in disguise
Who had the slaves
Who got the bux out the Bucks
Who got fat from plantations
Who genocided Indians
Tried to waste the Black nation
Who live on Wall Street
The first plantation
Who cut your nuts off
Who rape your ma
Who lynched your pa
Who got the tar, who got the feathers
Who had the match, who set the fires
Who killed and hired
Who say they God & still be the Devil
Who the biggest only
Who the most goodest
Who do Jesus resemble
Who created everything
Who the smartest
Who the greatest
Who the richest
Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest
Who define art
Who define science
Who made the bombs
Who made the guns
Who bought the slaves, who sold them
Who called you them names
Who say Dahmer wasn't insane
Who? Who? Who?
Who stole Puerto Rico
Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
Australia & The Hebrides
Who forced opium on the Chinese
Who own them buildings
Who got the money
Who think you funny
Who locked you up
Who own the papers
Who owned the slave ship
Who run the army
Who the fake president
Who the ruler
Who the banker
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the mine
Who twist your mind
Who got bread
Who need peace
Who you think need war
Who own the oil
Who do no toil
Who own the soil
Who is not a nigger
Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
Who own this city
Who own the air
Who own the water
Who own your crib
Who rob and steal and cheat and murder
and make lies the truth
Who call you uncouth
Who live in the biggest house
Who do the biggest crime
Who go on vacation anytime
Who killed the most niggers
Who killed the most Jews
Who killed the most Italians
Who killed the most Irish
Who killed the most Africans
Who killed the most Japanese
Who killed the most Latinos
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the ocean
Who own the airplanes
Who own the malls
Who own television
Who own radio
Who own what ain't even known to be owned
Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
Who own the suburbs
Who suck the cities
Who make the laws
Who made Bush president
Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying
Who talk about democracy and be lying
Who the Beast in Revelations
Who 666
Who know who decide
Jesus get crucified
Who the Devil on the real side
Who got rich from Armenian genocide
Who the biggest terrorist
Who change the bible
Who killed the most people
Who do the most evil
Who don't worry about survival
Who have the colonies
Who stole the most land
Who rule the world
Who say they good but only do evil
Who the biggest executioner
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the oil
Who want more oil
Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who? Who? Who?
Who found Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
Who pay the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion
Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
Who make the credit cards
Who get the biggest tax cut
Who walked out of the Conference
Against Racism
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother
Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?
Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
Who invaded Grenada
Who made money from apartheid
Who keep the Irish a colony
Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,
the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,
Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane,
Betty Shabazz, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone,
Little Bobby
Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,
Medgar Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
Who put a price on Lenin's head
Who put the Jews in ovens,
and who helped them do it
Who said "America First"
and ok'd the yellow stars
Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
Who murdered the Rosenbergs
And all the good people iced,
tortured, assassinated, vanished
Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo
Who invented Aids
Who put the germs
In the Indians' blankets
Who thought up "The Trail of Tears"
Who blew up the Maine
& started the Spanish American War
Who got Sharon back in Power
Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
Chiang kai Chek
Who decided Affirmative Action had to go
Reconstruction, The New Deal,
The New Frontier, The Great Society,
Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for
Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro
Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
Subsidere
Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
Who poison Robeson,
who try to put DuBois in Jail
Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs,
Garvey,
The Scottsboro Boys,
The Hollywood Ten
Who set the Reichstag Fire
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?
Who? Who? Who?
Explosion of Owl the newspaper say
The devil face cd be seen
Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is
Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national
oppression and terror violence, and hunger and poverty.
Who is the ruler of Hell?
Who is the most powerful
Who you know ever
Seen God?
But everybody seen
The Devil
Like an Owl exploding
In your life in your brain in your self
Like an Owl who know the devil
All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl
Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise
In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
Who and Who and WHO who who
Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved
To: Sub-Driver
that idiot needs to learn himself some history and I mean real, factual, actual history not whatever revisionist BS he's been learnin
Didn't Stalin order Lenin killed?
To: eddie willers
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?This is he only "stanza" I have previously seen printed.
If the libs printed the whole damn thing would this sucker be run out of Jersey?
To: SamAdams76
Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? 
To: Sub-Driver
WHO do the VOO-DOO?
ETC..
ETC..
ETC..
To: eddie willers
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?
Someone should give some serious thought as to whether BET should be alowed to continue to pocess an FCC broadcasting licence when they allow this type of garbage to reside on their website.
To: RightResponse
Kill. My. Lan. Lor.
13
posted on
10/06/2002 5:55:52 PM PDT
by
Rocko
To: Chad Fairbanks
If idiots call what Amiri Barakathis writes is poetry, than I want a grant for what my cat throws up, for it is art!
I want a grant to show the world the hair balls my cat throws up.
Who told Amiri Barakathis that what he spews forth is art
Who decides what garbage he writes is on paper we can not part
Who tells this fool that he is smart?
Who who who?
Who define what this moron produces is art Who define the state must pay for his garbage?
Who tells the tax payers we must pay for his racist opinions
Who decides that we are forced to honor this idiot and his minions
Who but the racist few decided we must honor this Nazi’s sinions
Who who who
Who brought us Amri Barakathisthis’ third grade writings
Who forced us to give him homage for his smitings?
To: GaryMontana
Who put eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can? You know who, you know who, you know who! (Radio ad for Contadina Tomato Paste, popular on New York stations in the early 1960s).
15
posted on
10/06/2002 6:01:03 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: hole_n_one
I suspect he will gain much respect, support and noteriety amongst his peers, who already believe this type of garbage.
16
posted on
10/06/2002 6:02:55 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: Sub-Driver
Who? Who? Who? ..
Was this stupid mess written by an owl?
17
posted on
10/06/2002 6:03:29 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: GaryMontana
That's actually not bad. You should send it to him.
To: Sub-Driver
Did you get this from some rap artist? Who is substituting this literary diarrhea for poetry?
To: GaryMontana
Sinions? ROTFLMAO
20
posted on
10/06/2002 6:16:08 PM PDT
by
Mute
To: Texas_Jarhead
that idiot needs to learn himself some history and I mean real, factual, actual history not whatever revisionist BS he's been learnin. Didn't Stalin order Lenin killed?
Stalin ordered Trotsky killed. The Soviets were a pretty evil bunch, even to each other. BTW, there are a couple other pro-commie lines in the poem -- "Who frame the Rosenbergs ... The Hollywood Ten". Of course, both were guilty as sin ...
I mean, the wall came down in 1989! What planet is this man living on?
To: Sub-Driver
Images
by Tyrone Greene
Dark and lonely
On a summer night.
Kill my landlord.
Kill my landlord.
The watchdog barkin',
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 land-lord.
22
posted on
10/06/2002 6:21:20 PM PDT
by
Mute
To: Sub-Driver; Orual; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; tet68; MinuteGal
Who dumped something
In a porcelain bowl,
And called it poetry?
Ba
ra
ka
is
Who.
23
posted on
10/06/2002 6:25:09 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: kilohertz
Of course, Stalin ordered Trotsky killed. I had a brain fart there with Lenin. That Rosenberg reference jumped out at me too, hasn't this idiot heard of the Venona papers yet? I mean come on, talk about self delusion. The masses believe that communism is dead, how I wish that it true.
To: Texas_Jarhead
The "fake president" part is just as irritating, in my opinion. The poet laureate was definitely a Gore voter in 2000.
To: GaryMontana
ROTFLMAO...
To: Moonmad27
Probably voted for Gore, five times.
27
posted on
10/06/2002 6:54:39 PM PDT
by
Brytani
To: Sub-Driver
Who need to study grammar? Who? Whoooo?
28
posted on
10/06/2002 7:42:21 PM PDT
by
alnick
To: eddie willers
So ah, is the Who still a band?
To: Sub-Driver
Who made Bush president That's right. And don't you forget it, Sambo.
To: Sub-Driver
Who know who decide Jesus get crucified Ok, so now it was WASP Republicans who killed Christ?
You don't get any dumber than this guy. Perhaps he will be invited to join Cornell West at the ever-declining Princeton.
To: Sub-Driver
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother Actually, "Brother Malcolm" was killed by his own kind, as Farakkan has admitted.
And RFK was killed by a "Palestinian" Muslim, Sirhan Sirhan.
To: eddie willers
["Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka]
Pocket Poet Summary Version:
"I am an idiot."
PS: Amiri Baraka actual name = Leroy Jones
A gradiate of the finast of NJs educatoinel systems?
To: GirlShortstop
"who Let the Poet Out"
One day New Jersey decided they needed a poet (Big whoopdie-doo!)
So they got a guy named Baraka... (Real name Leroy Jones)
Wrote about history, but he didn't know it... (went to public school)
Blamed every woe on all the crackahs...
And now everybody's sayin'
Who let the poet out? Who? Who? WHo? Who?
etc...
we could have fun with this ;0)
To: Sub-Driver
An iteresting commentary on this "poet" is
here.
35
posted on
10/06/2002 8:58:18 PM PDT
by
TheMole
To: eddie willers
["Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka]
Pocket Poet Summary Version:
"I am an idiot."
PS: Amiri Baraka actual name = Leroy Jones
A gradiate of the finast of NJs educatoinel systems?
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Double post coutesy of Earthlink ISP screwup. Can't wait until cable modem arrives and I can pitch this inferior "service".
To: agrace; Alberta's Child; Antoninus; Atticus; BeforeISleep; Betteboop; bioprof; Black Agnes; ...
38
posted on
10/06/2002 9:30:21 PM PDT
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
We must keep tying McGreezy's name to this poet. A little wake up call to our jewish friends.
To: Mute
Yes, I thought Sinions was funny too. That is why I put it in there.
It took me all of two minutes to write that.
Perhaps I should be the next Poet Laureate of New Jersey!
Yes, I live in Montana. However, I can produce a lot of third grade humor too!
Who who who, what a pathetic poem this guy wrote. If I was in the fourth grade I would have gotten an F for this garbage. I guess in New Jersey they think it is art. Perhaps they need to teach people to read in New Jersey. Then they would know this guy can't write.
To: Chad Fairbanks
thank you
To: Sub-Driver
Who takes the money from the WHO? The whore, that's who.
42
posted on
10/06/2002 11:06:39 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: dighton
Who put the bop in the bop-she-wop-de-bop?
Who put the ram in the ram-alam-a-ding-dong?
To: dighton; aculeus; general_re
Who dumped something In a porcelain bowl, And called it poetry?Recently named poet laureate here.
"However, as the need to defecate is irrepressible, so were some writers who despite social as well as academic stigma wrote on the subject and gave us at least an idea in regard to toilet habits of human beings."
44
posted on
10/07/2002 4:49:43 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: Chad Fairbanks
Amazing that after all he said, only the mention of "4000 Israelis" drew ire.
To: Texas_Jarhead
The circumstances of Lenin's death are highly suspicious. If anyone ordered him killed, it pretty much had to be Stalin.
To: OldFriend
47
posted on
10/07/2002 9:55:55 AM PDT
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
The question is WHY did McGreevy feel comfortable paying $10,000 to this skunk.
To: OldFriend
Good Question, I guess we will have to ask him:
http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html
I saw this in The NY Post Today.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/59100.htm
N.J.'S INSULT TO BLACKS
By JOHN H. MCWHORTER
October 7, 2002 --
Who knew the World
Trade Center was
gonna get bombed?
Who told 4,000 Israeli
workers at the Twin
Towers
to stay home that day?
Why did Sharon stay
away?
TO Amiri Baraka, it seems "authentic" for a black poet laureate of New Jersey to spout this kind of street-corner excuse for thought. For those wondering what led the writer of those lines to be appointed a state poet laureate, the answer is the quota mentality.
New Jersey's State Council of the Arts and Council for the Humanities has admitted that it decided it would be Doing the Right Thing to make the laureate a person of color this time around.
Very noble - but Baraka? Where was the sense in saluting "diversity" by conferring the prize on a man who has spent 40 years writing poems and plays disparaging whites (and Jews and gays) as evil incarnate?
Then, too, one presumes that poet laureates will have an exceptional talent for wielding the nuances of words to express considered thought. But it is difficult to glean this kind of ability in the lines above, which (like most of Baraka's work) are gut-level barbershop rhetoric put to paper.
Stringing together visceral ejaculations does not make one a serious poet, regardless of race. This is clear to everyone when the writer is white. But a sentiment reigns, especially in academic and artistic circles, that the rules of the game are different when it comes to black people. Whites in this realm typically see it as a moral imperative to frame black people as eternal victims, too battered by the past to be subjected to serious competition.
Thus one shows that one is not a "racist" by setting the bar lower for black people, and hides behind the "diversity" line when the seams start showing.
But for all the good intentions, lower standards leads to lower performance, now as always and forever. Racial preferences (granting rewards out of proportion to performance) even bar their "beneficiaries" from learning what top-rate work actually is. The only way to learn to ride a bike is to take off the training wheels.
So the Jersey councils reaped what they sowed. Naturally Baraka, who became famous just as the preference regime was first stirring, feels that being black exempts him from the standards expected of a poet laureate.
An evening's armchair reading easily shows the lie in the story that Israel was tipped off about 9/11, but Baraka couldn't be bothered: His reason for being is not voicing the human heart, but railing histrionically at the Powers That Be.
Baraka may well not even understand that his post renders him responsible for thinking broadly - because he has spent a lifetime being lauded for mediocre work by whites with their hearts supposedly in the right place. His performance should surprise no one.
And anyone who objects that he is valuable as a "role model" should think again. At a library dedication the other day, schoolteachers brought black children to sit at the feet of a black figure more concerned with agitprop theatrics than seeking truth. The last thing young blacks need today is more of the message that idle rebellion is the essence of their race.
There's no point in trying to make Baraka resign; there are larger issues concerning us all. All the same, elevating him to represent the soul of an American state was an insult to Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes and other serious black poets, and to black people in general.
Doing the Right Thing in the 21st century means realizing that lowering standards for black people is a return to the past, a rehash of bringing in "token blacks" to "lend some color." Sometimes the high ground is letting "diversity" wait until a person both "diverse" and qualified is available.
John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and associate professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, is the author of "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America."
49
posted on
10/07/2002 1:45:03 PM PDT
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
bttt
50
posted on
10/07/2002 4:50:49 PM PDT
by
firewalk
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