[talleyman]

Bump

[ClearCase_guy]

Mentally ill. It appears that the turning point in his life came when those black people from the Nation of Islam killed that great black leader Malcolm X. In Leroi Jones' words:

“I began to hold all white people responsible, even though in some part of my mind I knew better."

Mentally ill.

[AppyPappy]

I gues it's better than bottling it up.

[Steely Glint]

Ah, the anti-American Left and its guilt trips...

[truth_seeker]

His intellectual "depth" appears to be equal to muslim "intellectualism."

[Cicero]

Some poets are morally reprehensible but brilliant. Leroi Jones certainly isn't among them. "Brilliant" simply doesn't compute. He is not what I would call a poet at all. He hasn't written a single good poem in his entire career.

[usadave]

...the African American Cultural Center (AACC) at Yale University...

At Yale University, is the African American Cultural Center located anywhere near the European American Cultural Center?

[Lancey Howard]

When we examine the manner in which Baraka has expressed his thoughts and observations over the past forty years – his racist diatribes, his incomprehensible rantings, his virtual noncompliance with rules of grammar and punctuation, his strings of obscenities woven together into works whose elegance scarcely equals that of the average restroom wall scrawling – it is difficult to do anything but marvel at the fact that someone so unskilled has been able to achieve both fame and acclaim as a poet and college professor.

The reason this scumbag has even been heard of at all is the direct result of political correctness and affirmative action. The irony is that Baraka will be a celebrity only to.... other scumbags and ignoramuses! Baraka will find no shortage of college chumps around the country who will gladly bend over and pay his speaker fees. It is free market capitalism at work and he'll make out like a bandit, laughing all the way to the bank.

[jjm2111]

Don Black (?) in reverse.