Posted on 01/09/2014 1:56:42 PM PST by Borges
Amiri Baraka died Thursday after weeks of failing health, a family spokeperson confirmed. He was 79. A playwright, poet, critic and activist, Baraka was one of the most prominent and controversial African American voices in the world of American letters.
He was born Everett LeRoi Jones on Oct. 7, 1934, in Newark, N.J. A gifted student, he graduated from high school two years early and went to college at New York University and Howard University. After serving in the Air Force for more than two years, Baraka -- then Jones -- was dishonorably discharged for reading communist texts.
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Obama prolly read this guys stuff in college and loved it
No comment.....Mandela and now this. Happy Happy Happy.
LeRoi Jones is dead?
I will surely miss him!
Another leftist communist who attended Columbia. That’s where THE FOREIGNER never went also, right. Never heard of him and don’t care to.
At a time, the sixties, of tremendous societal upheaval and race riots, this jerk did a lot to stir things up and get more people killed. He was a racist, anti-semitic bigot but of course, celebrated by the left for his ahem “honesty.”
All hail the dead commie. /s
I believe you get a medal for that in Obama's new, improved military.
Good riddance and rot in hell, LeRoi!
Why, it's Byron reborn.
Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.
I recall seeing this liberal bigot in the first episode of the music documentary “All You Need Is Love”.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560510/
The program itself is pretty good throughout its 17 episodes but some of the talking heads are full of mush like this guy.
I ran across a reference to him in something I’ve read in the past couple of years (may have been about American blues musicians going to play in England in the 1960s, it may have been something else).
Images by Tyrone Greene ...
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - 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 ...
I remember this slithering snake, - - only because he was so PATHETIC. Talk about a smokin’-token. The gates of Hell will clang loud . . .
Klaatu Barada Nikto
An America hating communist who won’t be able to spew hate any more.
The comments on this thread are awesome.
LOL!
I admit I don't know who this person is, but as soon as I saw the word "activist", I knew it had to be a leftie (if he were conservative, the word "extremist" would have been used instead.)
LeRoi Baccala will not be missed.
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