Ode to Obama: Amiri Baraka

Former New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka is among several poets who used the election of Barack Obama as inspiration to write. (Jan. 13)

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[agapeiron]

@brno22504 Yeah? You've read Leaves of Grass?

[Melaku85]

@horsie111 This is not a message of victimhood, although African Americans have been victims of political oppression since 1619, as well as today. Neither Democrats with their history of KKK affiliation and abortions of predominately black communities, or Republicans with their negligence of empowerment zones in black communities (better schools, better jobs), have served the interests of African Americans. We need more than just a black president. We need more blacks and minorities in congress.

[TheCreamysteve]

@horsie111 "The law never made man a whit more just" --Henry David Thoreau

[brno22504]

@noirtriptyline i know leaves of grass and every other white male written book is a homosexual manual to life

[noirtriptyline]

@brno22504 He probably did...he was gay after all.

[brno22504]

@sumsucsidxermus00 walt whitman can suck a dick

[theinfamouspolkadot]

ignorance is abundant....why does everyone attack African American leaders....listen before you sad something ignorant.

[2blakandbold]

The sheep are asleep and cannot awake from their slumber!

[itsturbotimeyall]

@WarezDaBeef lets see your poetry redneck

[itsturbotimeyall]

@horsie111 we dont have anything close to equality under the law. the civil rights movement brought an end to legal segragation but thats it. integration and assimilation does not mean equality. not that im a segregationist but there were more problems than that, these problems were neglected and continue to this day