Amiri Baraka "Somebody Blew Up America"

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 retiringIt wasn’t The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet
diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of
humanity, as they pleasesThey 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 BucksWho got fat from plantations Who genocided Indians Tried to waste the
Black nationWho live on Wall Street The first plantation Who cut your nuts off
Who rape your ma Who lynched your paWho 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 resembleWho 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 amp; 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 ReichstagFire
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 ar
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is
Who want he world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror
violence, and hunger and poverty.
Who is the ruler of ell?
Who is the most powerful
Who you know ever Seen od? ut everybody seen The
DevilLike 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 ike the acid vomit of he fire of Hell
Who and Who and WHO who who Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!