"The truth, always the truth--at all costs"
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| 8977 05/30/2010 Ka' Ba AMIRI BARAKA |
Ka'Ba "A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and Black people call across or scream across or walk across defying physics in the stream of their will. Our world is full of sound Our world is more lovely than anyone's tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air. We are beautiful people With African imaginations full of masks and dances and swelling chants with African eyes, and noses, and arms tho we sprawl in gray chains in a place full of winters, when what we want is sun. We have been captured, and we labor to make our getaway, into the ancient image; into a new Correspondence with ourselves and our Black family. We need magic now we need the spells, to raise up return, destroy,and create. What will be the sacred word? C: AMIRI BARAKA, MAY 30, 2010 AND BEFORE Amiri Baraka is one of the world's finest poets. His poems, plays, essays and music are all recognized throughout the world, he, like Ishmael Reed, are voices of truth, courage, vision and humanity, that cut through the hypocrisy of our times and the American myths of "equality" and "fairness." Baraka was Poet Laureat of New Jersey until that title was taken from him by cowardly politicians who didn't want to hear the truth of his poem, "Who Blew Up America." The truth about what Baraka was saying in that poem has now become more public as more facts about 9/11 and racism are more evident in this time. Long may Barak's life and poetry reign. Comments by Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com |
