RIP, Brother Imamu Amiri Baraka

RIP, Brother Imamu Amiri Baraka...He was a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement (1965--85) that replaced the accommodating and sterile Civil Rights Movement.

"Somebody Blew Up America" (about 9/11)
by Amiri Baraka

They say its so...me 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.See More

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Jewish-controlled mainstream US media denounces Courageous Boycott by ASA of Israel

"I find it insulting for Jewish people to suggest that they are somehow exempt from being criticized. This is especially true, because we all know that one of the crucial hallmarks of any abuser is: they can’t take any criticism."

Dear friends,

For acting against Jewish exploitation and oppression, euphemistically called Zionism, the American Studies Association (ASA)is currently being bombarded by the largely Jewish-controlled US mainstream media. Right now, in fact, if you try to Google anything about the recent ASA vote to boycott Israeli academic institutions, what you will mostly find are both articles and blogs about scholars and university presidents who denounce the boycott. Yet, at least to me, the biggest issue is: the United States of America must end its collusion with the gangster Zionists!

It is bad enough that so many Jewish people claim to have suffered more than any other group in history. However, in reality, as Karl Marx put it, the man who Adolf Hitler called “the world Jew”: the suffering of the Jews has been the rule, not the exception, for all humanity. Marx even went on to point out that the Jew makes claim to an "illusory nationality". In other words, s/he is a Jew, as opposed to being American, French, or Italian, for instance. In other words, they have estranged themselves from humankind.(Please refer to the great essay by Karl Marx titled “On the Jewish question”, a critique of Bruno Bauers important essay called “The Jewish question” that was written a year earlier than Marx’s piece, the former being published in 1833.)

Finally, I find it insulting for Jewish people to suggest that they are somehow exempt from being criticized. This is especially true, because we all know that one of the crucial hallmarks of any abuser is: they can’t take any criticism. Again, every group, African, European, Native American, or otherwise, at some point has experienced being either an oppressor or the oppressed. Jews are no different!

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What to do about Bpxing - Some memories

photo: Meldrick Taylor

Dear friends,

As usual, all of the loudmouths who know nothing about boxing are all over the Internet pretending to be pundits and giving ideas about what to do with the corrupt sport.

There's been no mention, regarding boxers being pimped by everyone from trainers and managers to matchmakers and promoters.

Back in the late 70s, at Joe Frazier's Gym in North Philly, the late Jerome Artis began a petition drive among pro-fighters to start a boxers union. Guys like myself, Jimmy Young, Bennie Briscoe, Dwight Braxton (now Qawi), and Mike Spinks signed it. Unfortunately, it never went anywhere. In fact, it just went away, as if it never was. I’ve always suspect that Jerome (who we called "Roni”) may have gotten paid off or something to stop getting signatures.

At any rate, pro fighters are still getting $100 per round today, as they have been doing for decades. That needs to stop, more than anything else. All of the loud mouthing by the “pundit” is inconsequential, if fighters continue to be pimped like street corner whores.

And it, i.e., the pimping, even applies to the bigger name fighters, because I was Meldrick Taylor's financial advisor back in '86. Lou Duva and I ended up having a problem, because I didn't like the way that Meldrick's agent, Lloyd Remick, was transferring around hundreds of thousands of dollars of Meldrick's money between banks that were literally only across the street from his office, while giving no access to Meldrick - to his own money. Instead, they gave him a $250 stipend every week. What a laugh!

After Lou Duva stood me up for a meeting at Front and Lombard streets in South Philly, then took Medrick to this gay, Jewish lawyer named Shelley Finkel in New York City, (by the way, Meldrick told me later that night over the phone that in New York Shelley Finkel told him that something would happen to me if I didn't leave him alone. As if I, a former Black Panther , was concerned).

Nevertheless, Duva had George Benton, my former trainer and longtime friend, call me the next day and George asked me for a personal favor: to leave Meldrick alone. When I initially responded in the negative, until George lowered his voice and begged, "Djata, do it for me...for me...Okay?"....I then conceded to his arm-twisting request, and said, "Okay."

But it didn’t stop there. A little side story: Only about two months later, in September 1986, I got a call from Meldrick. He wanted to lease a brand-new Porsche, but they told him that 19 years old he was too young to sign the lease. He also told me that Lou Duva and his lawyer were against him getting such a fancy sports car. I then told him about the conversation with George, and that I just didn’t want to be bothered. Meldrick just started begging me. I finally caved in. I told him to pick me up at 9 o’clock the next morning, and we’d go over the bridge to the Porsche dealer in New Jersey where he had already seen the car he wanted.

The next morning, he picked me up on time. As I was a successful insurance salesman, I knew that it would be no problem for me to sign for the vehicle for him. So we started to drive toward Center City, on our way to the Porsche dealer. We stopped at a red light at Broad and Lombard streets. The light changed, but Meldrick wasn’t moving. I said, “Come on man…Let’s go!” Meldrick then really shocked me, by telling me that he had run out of gas.

Here I am sitting all fly, as usual, and the business suit, it’s rush-hour in Center City Philadelphia, cars had already started beeping like crazy, and I said to Meldrick, “Man you better get out of this car and get some gas,” He did, while I just sat and waited. He came back about 15 minutes later. Because of his notoriety, the guy at the gas station had let him borrow a gas can. So after we dropped that gas can back off, we drove over the bridge to the Porsche dealer.

Now, Meldtick had already picked out the car that he wanted. I just explained who I was and gave them my business card. I assured them that Mel had the money, and that he would pay. But he had to have insurance. So we told the salesman that we’d be right back, because I had a buddy on Broad Street who owned an agency.

We left the dealership, but the now too excited Meldrick, in too much of a hurry, and only about a block after we pulled out of the dealership, crashed his Camaro right into the back of the guy who was in front of us, because he couldn’t wait for the light yochange. Fortunately, while the front hood of Mildred’s car was standing up like an upside down “V”, nothing happened to the back of other guy’s car.

We went back over the bridge to Philly, I went to my buddy’s shop, and he got the insurance. At that point, I told him to call one of his brothers or somebody, so that he could drive the Porsche back, and the other person could drive the Camaro back. He thanked me, and we parted ways. The last time that I ever saw him in person was about a month later, while driving around the rotary at City Hall. I was in my Lincoln, and he his Porsche; we let down our windows and gave each other a holler.

About five or six years later, after he’d won and lost his world title, I saw him on ab HBO program with slurred speech. I was so devastated that I just changed the channel. I’ve been told in recent years that he drives a cab. I first met him, when he was 10 years old. Everybody was sure then that he would be both an Olympic champion and a professional world champion. He did at least accomplish that. But now he's broke!

Boxing is a dirty, mucky sport. The only reasonable answer to fix it is to ban all present and former promoters, along with all the blood relatives from boxing - for life. That's just for starters.

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Lack of exercise and Low Self-esteem Go Hand-in-hand with MANY Females

"Confidence provides the soil from which self-esteem grows."

Dear friends,

The major  contradiction that, especially,  so many women experience in this Male Supremacist world is: many females in this, or any other culture, dare to look at themselves as competent beings who can accomplish whatever they choose to, without using their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual powers for manipulating and deceiving males to win favors from the latter. As a result, far too few of ALL American women.have chosen to develop a genuine "sense of self".

For example, simple habits like not getting involved in knowing their bodies through exercise, because they do not want to mess up their hairdos, means that many inner powers like determination and focus are quite limited, for most women. After all, a strong body affords one the opportunity to have a stronger mind. As well, not just vigorous, but even moderate physical exercise requires a person to confront his or her insecurities and inadequacies in a way that cerebral activities like academic exams or chess and computer games simply cannot do. That is mainly because the techniques involved with exercising summon a person to take chances in developing his or her levels of coordination and agility in a way that only physical energies/powers allow.

To be sure, the issue of self-esteem enters the discussion. Yet, many, if not most, people seem too often to confuse self-esteem with self-pride. They are two different phenomena. Self-pride is a mask that people wear to make others believe that they are someone other than who they really are. Consequently, a person can be a serial child molester, but, if dressed nice and driving an expensive car, that person is simply seen as a "successful" person. In our market-driven, possession-oriented society, we see everyone from politicians to entertainers to businesspeople who fit that bill.

However, on the other hand, self-esteem is based upon who one really is, because of what s/he has accomplished, by means other than manipulating, conning, or robbing, for instance. This person's self-worth is not based upon a mask, that is, the clothes that s/he wears, the house in which s/he lives , or the car that s/he drives. Rather, his or her confidence comes from having a "sense of self". In other words, s/he knows that s/he can accomplish goals on his or her own, by himself or herself. And, of course, the aforementioned confidence provides the soil from which self-esteem grows. Moreover, it does not take confidence to "have" things. You can buy "things". However, it does take self-assurance/confidence to "be" about more than pretending to be someone other than who you really are.

Keep punchin!

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