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4 posted on
10/02/2002 8:58:21 AM PDT by
mhking
To: Sabertooth
Baraka, aka Leroi Jones is insane. Period.
He married a white Jewish women, and hates Jews. (They're since divorced). Hettie COHEN has several children with this guy, so technically his kids are Jewish.
Yet he hates Jews. Does he hate his children too?
Can anyone dig up more dirt on him? I know he beat Hettie, she says so in her bio.
Oh yeah. That's the other thing. He's a woman beater.
To: Sabertooth
Gremlins in the formatting area?
7 posted on
10/02/2002 9:03:05 AM PDT by
Gumlegs
To: Sabertooth
Michelle Malkin
October 2, 2002
Look who supports Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that he despises so deeply, this black nationalist writer has had no trouble finding fellow Americans to show him love.
At the top of Amiri Baraka's donor list: The American taxpayer.
In the 1960s, Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones) received federal anti-poverty funds to run a "Black Arts Repertory Theater/School" in Harlem. According to The New Republic magazine, Baraka petulantly barred Sargent Shriver, President Lyndon Johnson's chief strategist in the War on Poverty, from entering any of the school's federally subsidized facilities.
"I don't see anything wrong with hating white people," Baraka bragged at the time to a U.S. News and World Report writer. One of Baraka's popular Harlem street performances in 1965 involved a black valet murdering white victims.
In 1981, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) apparently saw nothing wrong with Baraka's outspoken hatred, either. The agency forked over public subsidies to Baraka for "poems" that railed against capitalism and Christianity. Policy Review magazine uncovered this tax-supported verse penned by Baraka:
Poetry must see as its central task
building
a Marxist Leninist
Communist Party
in the USA
So that even in our verse
we wage
ideological struggle
over political line
NEA money also supported a Baraka screed entitled "When We'll Worship Jesus," which proclaimed:
jesus need to be busted
jesus need to be thrown down and whipped
till something better happen. . .
In 2001, the NEA again coughed up tax dollars that benefited Baraka. The federal agency gave a $10,000 literature grant to an outfit called "Divinity Inc.," which hosts a World Black Poetry Festival featuring performances by Baraka. In 2002, the NEA handed another $5,000 to the poetry festival.
Also in 2002, the NEA awarded $20,000 to Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., "to support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics since 1974. Authors featured on the tapes include . . . Amiri Baraka."
The federal stamp of approval helped propel Baraka into the literary stratosphere over the years, and enabled him to secure various teaching positions at the New School for Social Research in New York, the University of Buffalo, San Francisco State University, Yale University, George Washington University, and the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His writings have been used in public high school classrooms and in Black Studies courses in colleges across the country.
His anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-Western verses of vitriol have won Baraka a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Baraka is a favorite of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the left-wing charity established in the name of a Rockefeller daughter. He was recently inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In July 2002, Baraka received his most recent gift from American taxpayers: a $10,000 stipend from the state of New Jersey to serve as its "poet laureate" for two years. Democrat Gov. James McGreevey demanded last week that Baraka resign from the post after reading his figurative flag-burning opus, "Somebody Blew Up America," at a Dodge Foundation poetry festival last month. Baraka refuses to budge.
Gov. McGreevey claims to be shocked by the venomous lies embedded in Baraka's tirade, which reads in part:
Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion?
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay at home that day,
Why did Sharon stay away?
The paranoia lasts for six pages, implying that white Americans are worse than the Sept. 11 terrorists because they "tried to waste the Black nation," "invented AIDS," "stole Puerto Rico" and "tried to poison Fidel (Castro)."
McGreevey's outrage is laudable, but "Somebody Blew Up America" was written nine months before Baraka was named New Jersey's poet laureate. Audio recordings of Baraka, in which he crows the poem with gleeful fervor to adoring blame-America audiences, have been available on the Internet since at least January 2002.
In the Third World countries he idolizes, Baraka would have lost his tongue and hands by now, if not his life. Only in America do we make lifelong literary kings of those who peddle treachery as art.
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9 posted on
10/02/2002 9:04:24 AM PDT by
dennisw
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Hear the poetic Muse,
And attend:
Baraka,
You eediyot.
One's laundry list,
(Even yours),
Broken into
however many lines,
Is not
The same thing
As poetry.
18 posted on
10/02/2002 9:16:22 AM PDT by
dighton
To: Sabertooth
Did he turn down the opportunity to replace Torricelli? He's about the only Democrat who didn't.
20 posted on
10/02/2002 9:20:00 AM PDT by
laconic
To: Sabertooth
You know, this Amiri Baraka is not even that good a poet. Great con man, though. He should be well received in New Jersey, wherever he goes there.
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42 posted on
10/02/2002 3:07:44 PM PDT by
Cindy
To: Sabertooth
Ooops. Formatting problems.
To: Sabertooth
New Jersey deserves this guy.
50 posted on
10/04/2002 9:04:00 AM PDT by
cinFLA
To: Sabertooth
Legislators may erase the post of state poet
Move comes after bid to fire Baraka from job
Thursday, December 05, 2002
BY JEFF WHELAN AND TOM HESTER
Star-Ledger Staff
Senate Democrats will try something new today in the effort to oust controversial poet Amiri Baraka as New Jersey's poet laureate: abolish the job altogether.
Senate Co-President Richard Codey (D-Essex) yesterday said he will propose scrapping the post of state poet laureate when a Senate committee takes up a bill that would give Gov. James E. McGreevey the power to dismiss Baraka.
Baraka is under fire for penning a post-Sept. 11 poem that critics contend is anti-Semitic, a charge he denies. McGreevey attempted to remove him from the post, but was told by Attorney General David Samson he did not have the authority under the 1999 law that created the position.
Codey is co-sponsor of a bill that would allow the removal of a poet laureate and change how the state picks one. He said the idea of amending the legislation to get rid of the job completely grew out of discussions between lawmakers and the McGreevey administration.
"In retrospect, do we need a state singer? Do we need a state dancer?" Codey said. "Where does it stop? Sometimes you have to Monday-morning quarterback."
McGreevey spokesman Kevin Davitt said, "We support any legislation that allows for the removal of the poet laureate. Abolishing the office in light of recent events might not be such a bad idea."
Jewish organizations have demanded Baraka's ouster since he read "Somebody Blew Up America" at a poets gathering at Waterloo Village during the summer. They have assailed the poem as anti-Semitic, citing in particular four of its 107 lines, which repeat discredited claims that 4,000 Israeli workers in the World Trade Center were told to stay home the day terrorists attacked and destroyed the towers.
Baraka has repeatedly said he is not anti-Semitic and insists the lines bolster the poem's central thesis that leaders of Israel and America knew the attacks were coming but allowed them to occur as a way to promote international warfare and restrictions on domestic freedoms.
When McGreevey stopped payment on the $10,000 state grant that Baraka was to have received as the state's honorary poet laureate, and lawmakers drafted bills to oust him in October, the poet threatened a court fight "to defend the rights of poets and the First Amendment."
One official familiar with the latest move said the state could better defend itself against such a suit if it got rid of the position rather than firing Baraka.
Baraka could not be reached for comment yesterday. Earlier this week, he told the Associated Press he would not attend today's Senate State Government Committee hearing because he was not personally invited to testify.
Both co-chairmen of the Senate committee said yesterday they were not sure there would be support for getting rid of the poet laureate's post.
"I have no idea whether or not there are enough votes for that from Republicans," said Sen. Garry J. Furnari (D-Essex). "At first blush, it seems it might be a shame that the way we have to handle this is the elimination of the office."
Sen. Walter J. Kavanaugh (R-Somerset), the panel's co-chairman, said he was surprised when McGreevey appointed Baraka poet laureate in May, but added: "I do not feel we should get rid of the position because concern has been expressed about someone's appointment."
Codey said that even if New Jersey has no poet laureate, legitimate poets would still be able to apply to the state for grants. "'Mr. Baraka is entitled, just like any other poet, to apply," he said.
http://www.nj.com/statehouse/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/103907307774520.xml52 posted on
12/05/2002 8:20:41 PM PST by
Coleus
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