Che -Guevara Posted October 13, 2002 This is poem by Amir Baraka. I thought it is thought provoking!  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 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/ WHO/ WHOWHO/  Who the Beast in Revelations Who 666 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 fount 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, 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 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/WHO/ ^^  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 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 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 WHO Who WHO  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! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ariadne Posted October 14, 2002 that was a good poem very sixties. Your right it was thought provoking and at the same time it makes you bitter Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaaluut Posted October 18, 2002 che guavera, was one of the greatet idiologist and thinkers in the latino hemisphere. amiiri baraka was in a great contreversey about his claim of the 4000 yahuud that were absent from work on 9-11. new jersey tried to revoke his title(;;;idon't remember what it was) Â the hypocritical conservatives were fuming with anger because of this comment , go figure. Â hey cushitic cutie, aristotle also said if i phrapharase it" he who can't control his desires, can't participate in society..). interesting indeed. do you know about avecena,and avveros(ibn rushd)- the greatest islamic scientist and philosophers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thunder Posted October 18, 2002 It is a very racist poem with many flows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuune Posted October 18, 2002 it was a long poem,but well said peom. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Macalin Posted October 19, 2002 Jaaluut: Amiri Baraka is the poet laureate of the state of new jersey.  Hes one the best poets of the black world, a good muslim and strong black man he is!  Its not racist Thunder, its just he barely stated his opinion and not being anti-jweish as whoever said  This poem was abt the 4000 (reportedly) who didnt report to the world trade center on sept 11..thazz all he said,  None more none less. but as u all know anything against jews is termed "anti-semiticm"  peace, read some of his work and his biography, tells what kinda man he is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Che -Guevara Posted October 19, 2002 Thankx for you input..people I personally think the poem is factual but at sametime reactionary and somewhat racist! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StarGazer Posted November 11, 2002 What a vigorous poem! I've been meaning to get a hold of this poem that caused such controvercy in the States. I think they want to revoke his title as poet laureate all because of this poem. What ever happened to freedom of speech in America? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NZ DAD Posted December 17, 2002 i will blow up america :cool: :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abdulraheem Posted December 18, 2002 GUEVARA believe it or not this is my fav poem and i agree with every single line of it. come on brothers and sisters why do i believe you losing the whole plot here? you call him a racist? that's just an american crap coz once they see a person talk about the fact be it the past or the present they so quick to label him. every word of the poet is a fact wether you like it or not you agree or disagree. AMREICA and it's allies are evils while they make you believe to be the angels. let's be honest here and drop the hypocracy crap. AMERICA is responsible for everything that's happening in this world today civil war,femine, drought,poverty,racism,terrorism,aids, you name it so give the brother a credit instead of acting or should i say talking like BUSH clan whom are so good in manipulating the whole concept of the truth. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
