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BAYO ADEBOWALE’S LATEST HOT POETRY BOOK IS OUT! -THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A POETRY BOOK LIKE THIS ON AFRICA BEFORE! -GET YOUR COPY NOW!

February 24, 2012

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Friday, February 24, 2012
BAYO ADEBOWALE’S LATEST GREAT POETRY BOOK IS OUT ! -“AFRICAN MELODY: A POETIC EXPOSITION OF THE AFRICAN ESSENCE” ! – GET YOUR COPY NOW ! -IT’S HISTORIC AND THERE HAS NEVER HAS BEEN ANY POETRY BOOK LIKE THIS BEFORE ON AFRICA!


Friday, February 24, 2012
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>"SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA" BY AMIRI BARAKA-A TRULY BLACK REVOLUTIONARY POEM ABOUT 9/11!

June 19, 2010

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Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems

Black radical enigma.(The Essence of Reparations, Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual, … Review): An article from: Monthly Review

Somebody Blew Up America.

Somebody Blew Up America

Amiri Baraka

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      SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA

         (All thinking people   oppose terrorism   both domestic   & international…   But one should not    be used   To cover the other)
      They say its some terrorist, some         barbaric                          A Rab, in   AfghanistanIt wasn’t our American terroristsIt wasn’t the Klan or the Skin headsOr the them that blows up niggerChurches, or reincarnates us on Death RowIt wasn’t Trent LottOr David Duke or GiulianiOr Schundler, Helms retiring
      It wasn’tthe gonorrhea in costumethe white sheet diseasesThat have murdered black peopleTerrorized reason and sanityMost of  humanity, as they pleases
      They say (who say? Who do the sayingWho is them payingWho tell the liesWho in disguiseWho had the slavesWho got the bux out the Bucks
      Who got fat from plantationsWho genocided IndiansTried to waste the  Black nation
      Who live on Wall Street   The first plantationWho cut your nuts offWho rape your maWho lynched your pa
      Who got the tar, who got the feathersWho had the match, who set the firesWho killed and hiredWho say they God & still be  the Devil
      Who the biggest onlyWho the  most goodestWho do Jesus resemble
      Who created everythingWho  the smartestWho  the greatestWho  the richestWho say you ugly and they  the goodlookingest
      Who define artWho define science
      Who made the bombsWho made the guns
      Who bought the  slaves, who sold them
      Who called you them namesWho say Dahmer wasn’t insane        Who/  Who /  Who/
      Who stole Puerto RicoWho stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan   Australia & The HebridesWho forced opium on the Chinese
      Who own them buildingsWho got the moneyWho think you funnyWho locked you upWho own the papers
      Who owned the slave shipWho run the army
      Who  the  fake presidentWho  the rulerWho  the banker                  Who/ Who/ Who/
      Who own the mineWho twist your mindWho  got breadWho need peaceWho you think need war
      Who own the oilWho do no toilWho own the soilWho is not a niggerWho is so great ain’t nobody bigger
      Who own  this city
      Who own the airWho own the water
      Who own your cribWho rob and steal and cheat and murder       and make lies the truthWho call you uncouth
      Who live in the biggest houseWho do the biggest crimeWho go on vacation anytime
      Who killed the most niggersWho killed the most JewsWho killed the most ItaliansWho killed the most IrishWho killed the most AfricansWho killed the most JapaneseWho killed the most Latinos
       Who/Who/Who
      Who own the ocean
      Who own the airplanesWho own the mallsWho own  televisionWho own  radio
      Who own what ain’t even known to be ownedWho own the owners that ain’t the real owners
      Who own the suburbsWho suck the citiesWho make the laws
      Who  made  Bush  presidentWho believe the confederate flag need to be flyingWho talk about democracy and be lying    WHO/ WHO/ WHOWHO/
      Who  the Beast in RevelationsWho  666Who decide   Jesus get crucified
      Who  the Devil on the real sideWho got rich from Armenian genocide
      Who  the biggest terroristWho change the bibleWho killed the most peopleWho do the most evilWho don’t worry about survival
      Who have the coloniesWho stole the most landWho rule the worldWho say they good but only do evilWho  the biggest executioner
         Who/Who/Who     ^^^
      Who own the oilWho want more oilWho told you what you think that later you find out a lieWho/ Who/ ???
      Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they SatanWho pay the CIA,Who knew the bomb was gonna blowWho 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 cardsWho get the biggest tax cutWho walked out of the Conference   Against RacismWho killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his BrotherWho killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?   Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
      Who invaded GrenadaWho made money from apartheidWho keep the Irish a colonyWho 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, Princess Margaret, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby
      Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,Assata, Mumia,Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
      Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,    MedgarEvers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,Was it the ones who tried to poison FidelWho 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 itWho said “America First”        and ok’d  the yellow stars                                                WHO/WHO/ ^^ Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, LiebnecktWho 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 CongoWho invented Aids Who put the germs   In the Indians’ blanketsWho thought up “The Trail of Tears”
      Who blew up the Maine& started the Spanish American WarWho got Sharon back in PowerWho backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,      Chiang kai Chek                       who WHO   W H O/
      Who decided Affirmative Action had to go  Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New  Frontier, The Great Society,
      Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work forWho doo doo come out the Colon’s mouthWho know what kind of Skeeza is a CondoleezaWho pay Connelly to be a wooden negroWho give Genius Awards to Homo Locus       Subsidere
      Who overthrew Nkrumah,  Bishop,Who poison Robeson,        who try to put DuBois in JailWho 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 bombedWho told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers   To stay home that dayWhy did Sharon stay away                    ?                                          /Who,Who, Who/                         explosion of Owl the newspaper saythe devil face cd be seen       Who  WHO     Who WHO
      Who make money from warWho make  dough from fear and liesWho want the world like it isWho 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 everSeen God?
      But everybody seenThe Devil 
      Like an Owl explodingIn your life in your brain in your selfLike an Owl who know the devilAll night, all day if you listen, Like an OwlExploding in fire. We hear the questions riseIn terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
      Like the acid vomit of the fire of HellWho and Who and WHO (+) who who ^    Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo! 
                                   AMIRI B  10/01

© Amiri Baraka

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Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones

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>BLACK POETS (IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA)-TO BE CONSTANTLY UPDATED AND NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER YET

May 26, 2010

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 AMIRI BARAKA-MY CHOICE FOR THE GREATEST BLACK POET IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA!)

 PHYLLIS WHEATLY (1753-1784)-thought to be the first Black poet in the U.S.A.

LANGSTON HUGHES

 SONIA SANCHEZ( MY MENTOR!)

BLACK POETS(IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA)

SANCHEZ,SONIA

GIOVANNI,NIKKI

ROGERS,CAROLYN

OLADE,YEYE AKILIMALI FUNUA

DUNBAR,PAUL LAWRENCE

HUGHES,LANGSTON

BROOKS,GWENDOLYN

BARAKA,AMIRI

MADHUBUTI,HAKI

CULLEN,COURTEE

JOHNSON,JAMES WELDON

YOUNG,AL

HARPER,MICHAEL S.

JORDAN,JUNE

GARVEY,MARCUS

THE LAST POETS

WALCOTT,DEREK

FAUSET,JESSIE REDMON

TROUPE,QUINCY

WALKER,ALICE

SPENSER,ANNE

GLIMKE,ANGELINA W.

HARPER,TRANCIS E.W.

PHYLLIS WHEATLEY (1753-1784)-thought to be the first Black poet in the U.S.A.

MADGETT,NAOMI LONG

CLIFTON,LUCILLE

RANDALL,DUDLEY

KOMANYAKAA,YUSEF

DOVE,RITA

BONTEMPTS,ARNA

MCKAY,CLAUDE