Amiri Baraka "Somebody Blew Up America" 

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GENIUS!!!

It's stunning... Who? Who? Who? The white capitalist comes to mind

@@jamesjohnson2394 satan he uses who he does(listen closely) repent and believe on Jest he died buried and resurrected for you so you might be saved if you believe on him

Just because you opened your eyes doesn't mean what you see is new.

Yup

tito, right. this ain't schrodinger's gato. we know what it is.

Yup

I know that is a moment you will never forget.

Jolly Rotten JR you are wasting your time wishing. Follow him become a poet. write your own book and slay them with rhythmic wisdom. Become Amiri Baraka. Our brother lives. Forever!

Hope some of your friends and family are woke to the truth spoken here. I'm from philly btw. Some people don't want to hear it unfortunately

I guess it goes beyond poetry. it is not just poetry. it is the truth apparently.

*ucking conspiracy theory -there's why. How about black cops murdering black guys? How about African chiefs hunting out their won to sell them off to white slavers? Not so simple.

ASE', ASE', ASE'!!!

One can only hope if we put down the remote & turn off Love & Hip Hop..one could only hope.

I salute you sir

spot on.

Right on my white brother. Now we call you brother.

Fake

I live in a country which was once a British colony, and although you have a point it still stands that the white man put down the black man(oversimplification), America is the only country in human history to ever use nuclear weapons on a country.....talk about diplomacy? isis also one of america's problem how many countless people killed because of this so called "holy war"? mass graves in my country "gukurahunde" its also shocking that black on black crimes are higher than white on black to me this is somewhat odd, i then get back to one of your points "Why should only whites cop to these" no matter how we want to look at it, the white man really messed up especially slavery but then again in africa before the white man came the arabs were already taking black people as slaves....will it ever end?. i take it you are a neutral which is good, yes white people have played a great role in stamping out slavery..but they also committed great crimes NOW my question is WHY SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE?but at the end of the day i believe that as the human race we must advance as one collective mind i believe thats the only way to progress forward...

and capitalists

Finding some logic or truth in some lines of the poem does not excuse the lies and hatred in other lines of the poems.

I don't think saying who asked 4,000 Israelis to stay home is anti-Semitic. Instead it seems more to do with a anti Israel sentiments OR a widely held belief that 9/11 was an inside job. Being against Israel's policy of not wanting to share land with the Palestinians and the governments oppressive treatment of those people IS NOT the same as hating Jews. We can see this in the language. For example, He mentions what he believes are injustices against the Rosenbergs more times than needed, almost as a way of defending the fact that he doesn't have anything against Jews. He also includes injustices against white historical figures who are not jewish which also signifies he is placing the blame on a specific group of people. The poem as a whole is about the irony of 9/11. When it happened people wanted to know who blew up the twin towers. Amiri is telling America, particularly racist white America (not all of white America is racist), that they, through the hundreds of years of injustice and wrong doings, which he catalogs in the poem, created the cause that may have led to the effect of this horrible tragedy. I don't think that is hateful. Instead it raises a legitimate argument, which is "Could it be that you brought this on yourself". Finally, as a fist hand witness to and victim of such horrible injustice in the 50's and 60's (lynchings, Jim Crowe, etc) he has the poetic right to express what truths he has seen and to share his emotional response to those experiences, just like the Jewish people who suffered through horrors of WWII who have expressed their despair, anger, frustration, and sadness in countless works of literature. Just like them, I am sure he carried those emotion with him till the end.

I am afraid that 4,000 bit was a story many believed at the time, including Amiri Baraka. He did not invent it. He included it as part of the story. Obviously that was a mistake but I don't think it was intended to be anti-Semitic. I think it was just plain gullibility. "In addition to the allusion that has caused all the controversy, it also references other signal moments in Jewish political memory, including the assassination of Rosa Luxembourg, the Reichstag fire, the World War II-era pro-Nazi "America First" movement, and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, casualties of the McCarthy era. The trouble is, none of these statements could remotely be considered anti-Semitic; each of them, in terms of both content and the way they are framed, affirms Jewish humanity and historic moments in Jewish struggles for justice. And that's without even mentioning the other 95 percent of this poem, which calls out milestones in historic struggles for justice and freedom around the globe - as well as key moments in the history of racism and repression." What a shame that one sentence could destroy the greater intent of this literary (not news, historical, or scholarly) work.

beargrizly...how would sharing land with Palestinians be suicidal? How does blaming America for 9/11 equal hate. No one said anything about all the problems of the world. America has a long and very well documented history of injustice. This is fact. To site fact is not hatred. Our country has trained and armed Hussain, Bin Laden, and Al Qaida. If there was no CIA these guys would not have existed in the first place. Our motherland has toppled more governments and caused the deaths of many under the name of god, freedom etc etc. I love America. It is my home, my motherland. That doesn't not mean I have to turn a blind eye to her ugly history. Yes Amiri Baraka is a well documented anti Semite. In 1980 he proclaimed that those days were behind him, who knows. Yes Amiri Baraka is a survivor of America Apartheid years and has many reasons to be angry and racist his whole life. I don't think he hated white people. I do think he hated racist bigoted assholes and oppressors. Since he is dead we can't ask him. As with any poem, all we have are the words he left behind. The text clearly shows pro-Jewish, anti establishment, anti-injustice, you reap what you sow, intent. Since it is a poem it is this intent that we must interpret based on the words.

oops not dead extremely ill. I was mistaken. I totally disagree with everything but these are arguments I don't want to get into.

Same

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