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“Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day?” “Why did Sharon stay away?” Pretty sick stuff, huh?"

Where was Mr. Abaduto when Baraka was spewing his anti-white hatred?? Like most Demcorats, he probably was not too concerned. Only when his rhetoric turned anti-Semitic was there a problem with him. McGreevey was well aware of this black racist's attitudes, as were most New Jerseyites.

"He was what some call a racial provocateur long before Al Sharpton was out of diapers. Baraka talked a lot about Black Nationalism and separating from whites. Both in his poems and his political rhetoric (often one and the same) he has been anti-government and anti-white. But like I said, Amiri Baraka has every right to say what he believes."

Baraka may be protected under the Constitution, but the same protection is not available to whites like Lott and Marge Shott - remember her?? Abaduto would be in the forefront of supporting penalties against them, because like liberal DemocRATs, he is a hypocrite.

"however, there is one catch. A while back Baraka was appointed by the New Jersey Council for Humanities and the Council on the Arts to be the state’s “Poet Laureate.” This is a government post paying Baraka a $10,000 stipend for him to perform a couple of public readings a year and promote poetry in the schools."

Why does Abaduto have a problem with this all of a sudden?? As a college freshmen at Red Rutgers, I and a church full of students were FORCED to listen to an exhaustive display of this vicious, racist's scatological descriptions of white folks and what he would like to do to them.

"obviously, after Baraka’s inflammatory, insensitive and unsubstantiated charges that Jewish employees at the World Trade Center (as well as President Bush and other world leaders Baraka says are anti-Arab) knew about the September 11 attacks before they happened, lots of people reacted. Several Jewish leaders called for his immediate resignation as the state’s Poet Laureate."

Where was the outrage when Baraka was spewing anti-White venom?? Was that O.K.???

"to date, Baraka remains the state’s Poet Laureate because state law doesn’t allow him to be removed by any elected official, including the governor."

??????? Well than, cut his pay to $0.50 per year.

"but the plot thickens. Back in Newark, the school board has now named Baraka the Poet Laureate of the Newark Public Schools. It was a unanimous vote. In addition, numerous political leaders in Newark, including Councilman Donald Bradley, hailed the school board’s decision saying this was a great opportunity to bring Baraka’s “expansive body of work” to the city’s beleaguered public schools through poetry workshops and readings."

This demonstrates the selective nature of anti-racist opinion among some members of the Black Community. Newark is mainly a black city.

"Amiri Baraka is a very talented writer and poet who is considered one of the great poets of the 20th Century."

By WHO???? Is dubato suddenly a poetic critic?? Adubato would probably have thought Hitler was a great painter.

"..the problem is the sick and terribly divisive things he has said in his poem “Somebody Blew Up America,” especially at a time when our country needs to be united, clearly disqualify him from holding any government post. Having a right to say anything you want as a poet is not the same as being able to say anything you want when you are getting paid with tax payer dollars."

Again - the selective outrage. Where was Abaduto when Baraka was intially appointed??? Didn't he have a problem with his anti-white racism, or was that O.K.???? Since he knew him so well from their common days back in Newark, he should have been well aware of this guy's racism from the start.

"consider what happened to Trent Lott after he made those asinine comments at Strom Thurman’s 100th birthday party. He had to resign his top post in the Senate. Interestingly, some of the same black political leaders and others who called for Trent Lott’s hide are demanding that Baraka be left alone."

Not surprising. Black racists have long maintained that only whites are capable of racism.

"Further, consider this hypothetical scenario. In New York City some white supremacist poet who writes that blacks are less patriotic than whites and sympathize with Osama Bin Laden gets named Poet Laureate for either the city or the city’s public schools."

Only in your lying dreams Abaduto and you know it. Whites are held to a different standard from other ethnic groups in this country. They are not allowed to express any sentiments of racial pride or even respond to racists of other ethnicities without being persecuted.

Its DemocRATs like Abaduto who originated the concept of "protected classes", which allow people like LeRoy Jones (a.k.a Baraka) receive praise for being a "poet".

"If Trent Lott and the white supremacist poet should pay the price, so should Amiri Baraka, even though he has a right to his opinion."

There is no comparison between the blatant, scatological venom and anti-white hate and rhetoric of Baraka and the poor choice of words employed by Trent Lott - NONE AT ALL - Adubato - a very poor, but typical craven white liberal analogy.

"...my fear is that Baraka won’t be able to get past his commentary about certain whites, particularly Jews, having advanced knowledge of the Trade Center bombings."

HUH???? Adubato is concerned that Baraka won't be able to get past something??? What kind of craven rhtetoric is that. Baraka is a blatant racist who has no business being endorsed by any politician and no business being paid by tax dollars - period. I don't give a rat's ass whether or not Baraka gets past anything and neither should Adubato if he had any testacles or self-dignity.

"How is he going to explain that to kids? And how does a 16-year-old student make sense of all that? That’s not simply a controversial point of view, it is downright sick and an unacceptable part of any public school curriculum. Remember, we are talking a public school system in which a disgraceful percentage of kids fail the High School Proficiency Test. We’re talking a city where way too few high school kids go to college and way too many are lost to drugs and gang violence because their opportunities seem so limited. "

NOTHING HERE CONDEMNING BARAKA STRAIGHT OUT FOR BEING A BLACK RACIST!!

"Like I said, Amiri Baraka has a right to write or say anything he wants, but not while he is holding an official post in the government he has so long railed against and advocated the overthrow of. "

And like I said, where was DemocRAT Abaduto when his buddy McGreevey first appointed a man whom he KNEW was an anti-white black racist to this position?? Nowhere. Not until Barak made the error of making some anti-Semitic statements.

"Steve Adubato, Ph.D. is a four-time Emmy Award-winning anchor for Channel 13/WNET (PBS). He is also a political analyst for ABC/7 in New York and the author of the soon-to-be-published book Speak from the Heart: Be Yourself and Get Results (Simon & Schuster). Steve’s company, Stand & Deliver, provides training and executive coaching on communication and leadership issues for corporations and organizations. Check out Steve’s Web Site at www.stand-deliver.com or e-mail him at sadubato@aol.com."

He's also a former Democratic member of the New Jersey State Legislature and the son of an Essex County Democratic Party Boss (Essex County has long been one of the nation's most politically corrupt, Democratically run Counties).

He attempts to pass himself off as kind of impartial commentator on any number of issues, but the liberal, DemocRATic bias is there for anyone intelligent enough to uncover it.

"As a fan of poetry, I have read some of LeRoi Jones/Baraka's work. I would agree that he is talented,.."

Have you seen any of Hitler's potcards??? I understand Stalin may have enjoyed sculpting. Praising Baraka's poetic talents is simply idiotic. And I HEARD Baraka personally. The only way I can adequately express my assessment of his "talents" is to employ the type of scatological terms with which he is so familiar, but which would be entirely unaccepted in a civilized forum like this one.