• Somebody Blew Up America – by Amiri Baraka

    Date posted: April 28, 2006 Author: jolanta

    They say its some terrorist, some barbaric …

    Somebody Blew Up America

    by Amiri Baraka

    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 the Beast in Revelations

    Who 666

    Who know 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?

    Who found 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, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone,

    Little Bobby

    Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,

    Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton

    Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,

    Medgar Evers, 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 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 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 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!

    Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved.

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