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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Why is We Americans

[Intro:]
Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, the legendary Amiri Baraka.

[Amiri Baraka:]
This is an excerpt from a poem called: Why is We Americans. But reality is an excerpt on Television.

Why is We Americans? Why is We Americans?

Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-do-do. Be-De-De-De-Bu-De-Bu-Bup-Boo-Boo.

What I want is me. For real. I want me and my self. And what that is is what I be and what I see and feel and who is me in the. What it is, is who it is, and when it me its what is be….I’m gone be here, if I want, like I said, self determination, but I ain’t come from a foolish tribe, we wants the mule the land, you can make it three hundred years of blue chip stock in the entire operation. We want to be paid, in a central bank the average worker farmer wage for all those years we gave it free. Plus we want damages, for all the killings and the fraud, the lynchings, the missing justice, the lies and frame-ups, the unwarranted jailings, the tar and featherings, the character and race assassinations. historical slander, ugly caricatures, for every sambo, step and fechit flick, we want to be paid, for every hurtful thing you did or said. For all the land you took, for all the rapes, all the rosewoods and black wall streets you destroyed. All the mis-education, jobs loss, segregated shacks we lived in, the disease that ate and killed us, for all the mad police that drilled us. For all the music and dances you stole. The styles. The language. The hip clothes you copped. The careers you stopped. All these are suits, specific litigation, as represent we be like we, for reparations for damages paid to the Afro-American nation.

Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa.

We want education for all of us and anyone else in the black belt hurt by slavery. For all the native peoples even them poor white people you show all the time as funny, all them abners and daisy maes, them Beverly Hill Billies who never got to no beverly hills. who never got to Harvard on they grandfathers wills. we want reparations for them, right on, for the Mexicans whose land you stole. For all of North Mexico you call Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado, all that, all that, all that, all that, Bu-de-daaaa do do bap bap bap baaa du de do.

All that you gotta give up, autonomy and reparations. To the Chicanos, and the Native Americans, who souls you ripped out with their land, give Self-Determination, Regional autonomy, that’s what my we is askin, and they gon do the same. when they demand it, like us again, in they own exploited name. Yeh the education that’s right two hundred…years. We want a central stash, a central bank, with democratically elected trustees, and a board elected by us all, to map out, from the referendum we set up, what we want to spend it on. To build that Malcolm sense Self-Determination as Self-Reliance and Self Respect and Self Defense, the will of what the good Dr. Du Bois beat on – true self consciousness. Simply the psychology of Freedom.

Bu-de-daaaa Bu-de-daaaa Pu de-daaaa Pu de-daaaa bap bap bap bap bu de bu de bu de bu bu.

Then we can talk about bein American. Then we can listen – then we can listen without the undercurrent of desire to first set your ass on fire. We will only talk of voluntary unity, of autonomy, as vective arms of self-determination. If there is democracy in you that is where it will be shown. this is the only way we is Americans. This is the only truth that can be told. OTHERWISE there is no future between us but war. And we is rather lovers and singers and dancers and poets and drummers and actors and runners and elegant heartbeats of the suns flame….but we is also to the end of our silence and sitdown. We is at the end of being under your ignorant smell your intentional hell. Either give us our lives or plan to forfeit your own.

16 comments:

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Can we get our $22 Trillion in welfare spending back?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Hey, at least the guy included poor whites in his reparations demand. Can't ask for more than that.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

So does the $22 Trillion welfare spending figure :P

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

(all money spent by the federal government on welfare since LBJ onwards)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Sounds like the payoffs demanded are being met.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Except I need reparations for my great great grandfather's legally owned farm equipment being "emancipated" without sue process.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

*due process

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Horse thieves? Mules requisitioned for the Mexican-American War?

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Chattel he paid property taxes on.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Imagine paying property taxes on items that the government turns around and takes from you.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Ah....... at least the British paid slave owners for their slaves. The US gov were always "cheapskates".

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

They had some squeamishness about admitting they seized "property."

Joe Conservative said...

They still haven't gotten over it.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

That's the thing, isn't it. Owning a slave wasn't exactly inexpensive and yet on top of the expenses of food, housing, clothing, and health care the government added taxation. The South was also held back economically by 100 year Reconstruction bonds that had to be repaid, saddling them with debts that really weren't cleared until the late 1970s early 1980s, perpetuating a zone toxic to industrial investment. Arguably Mississippi and Louisiana *still* haven't recovered. So you have people generations removed from the slave-owner class still held back economically (oh, wait white people can't be oppressed...) that thusly have no reason to let go of that grudge. Virtually no one in the South wants to have people own slaves again, but no one can rebuild from war either. I don't agree with the anger, but I grew up understanding it.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Only Germans get really pissed about shitty peace deals and blame an ethnic group ;)

L said...

Like they always are saying just follow the money!