Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:29:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: asc <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Fwd: Amiri Baraka poem





> 
> This is a poem read at a festival earlier this month
> by Amiri Baraka. He 
> is currently being asked to resign from his post as
> Poet Laureate by New 
> Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey. Baraka refuses to
> apologize. The entire 
> story can be found at this website:
> http://www.blackamericaweb.com.   Check
> out the story and also read the poem. 
> 
> 
> 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! 
> 
> 
> -Amiri Baraka


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