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Posted on 10/06/2002 5:30:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
"Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka 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! 
Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
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To: Sub-Driver
    And this person is a Poet Laureate???????
Man, those public schools need some SERIOUS work...
To: Chad Fairbanks
    He is a Self-Proclaimed America Hater and Commie.
4
posted on 
10/06/2002 5:36:35 PM PDT
by 
cmsgop
 
To: Sub-Driver
    Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?
To: Sub-Driver
    There once was a poet from Jersey,
 Who generated much controversy,
 His verses of hate,
 Disgraced the whole state,
 And now he's hiding in Hershey
To: SamAdams76
    "Somebody Blew Up America"
 By Amiri Baraka 
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! 
   
Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved
 
To: Sub-Driver
    that idiot needs to learn himself some history and I mean real, factual, actual history not whatever revisionist BS he's been learnin
 
Didn't Stalin order Lenin killed?
To: eddie willers
    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?This is he only "stanza" I have previously seen printed.
If the libs printed the whole damn thing would this sucker be run out of Jersey?
 
To: SamAdams76
    Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?     
 
To: Sub-Driver
    WHO do the VOO-DOO?
ETC..
ETC..
ETC..
To: eddie willers
    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? 
Someone should give some serious thought as to whether  BET should be alowed to continue to pocess an FCC broadcasting licence when they allow this type of garbage to reside on their website.
 
To: RightResponse
    Kill. My. Lan. Lor.
13
posted on 
10/06/2002 5:55:52 PM PDT
by 
Rocko
 
To: Chad Fairbanks
    If idiots call what Amiri Barakathis writes is poetry, than I want a grant for what my cat throws up, for it is art!
 
I want a grant to show the world the hair balls my cat throws up. 
Who told Amiri Barakathis that what he spews forth is art
Who decides what garbage he writes is on paper we can not part
Who tells this fool that he is smart?
Who who who?
Who define what this moron produces is art Who define the state must pay for his garbage?
Who tells the tax payers we must pay for his racist opinions
Who decides that we are forced to honor this idiot and his minions
Who but the racist few decided we must honor this Nazis sinions
Who who who
Who brought us Amri Barakathisthis third grade writings
Who forced us to give him homage for his smitings?
To: GaryMontana
    Who put eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can? You know who, you know who, you know who! (Radio ad for Contadina Tomato Paste, popular on New York stations in the early 1960s).
15
posted on 
10/06/2002 6:01:03 PM PDT
by 
laconic
 
To: hole_n_one
    I suspect he will gain much respect, support and noteriety amongst his peers, who already believe this type of garbage.
16
posted on 
10/06/2002 6:02:55 PM PDT
by 
umgud
 
To: Sub-Driver
    Who? Who? Who? ..
 Was this stupid mess written by an owl?
17
posted on 
10/06/2002 6:03:29 PM PDT
by 
RLK
 
To: GaryMontana
    That's actually not bad. You should send it to him.
To: Sub-Driver
    Did you get this from some rap artist? Who is substituting this literary diarrhea for poetry?
To: GaryMontana
    Sinions? ROTFLMAO
20
posted on 
10/06/2002 6:16:08 PM PDT
by 
Mute
 
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