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Posted on 01/17/2003 7:25:43 AM PST by Davis
It was an act of solidarity and defiance that seemed to make no sense: the Newark School Board last month voted unanimously to name Amiri Baraka as the district's official poet laureate. The move coincides with the New Jersey legislature's efforts to force Baraka out as the state's poet laureate -- even if it means abolishing the post -- after his September 20th performance of a poem called "Somebody Blew Up America" in which Baraka rehashes the imbecilic rumor that Jews were forewarned of the World Trade Center attack. Why would the nine-member school board, funded by the state, intentionally honor a hate-monger and stick its collective thumb in the legislature's eye?
The most palatable answer is that Baraka is a longtime Newark resident who's held many poetry workshops and readings in the city's public schools (in hindsight, a slightly alarming notion) and thus the gesture is the school board's way of saying, "We got your back, bro."
It's a partial explanation, but almost certainly not a full one...more
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