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    {"id":6410,"date":"2014-10-02T20:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T02:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2014-10-02T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T03:27:48","slug":"blew-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/blew-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Blew Up America | Amiri Baraka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA ! (from 500 yrs. later)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwSOhqf9zp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Remembering<span class=\"st\"> one of the most respected and widely published African-American writer and poet<\/span> Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 \u2013 January 9, 2014)<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title  \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Amiri Baraka &quot;Somebody Blew Up America&quot;\">\u00a0&#8220;Somebody Blew Up America&#8221; Live by Amiri Baraka<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"Amiri Baraka &quot;Somebody Blew Up America&quot;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KUEu-pG1HWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>They say its some terrorist,<br \/>\nsome barbaric<br \/>\nArab,<br \/>\nin Afghanistan<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t our American terrorists<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t the Klan or the Skin heads<br \/>\nOr the them that blows up nigger<br \/>\nChurches, or reincarnates us on Death Row<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t Trent Lott<br \/>\nOr David Duke or Giuliani<br \/>\nOr Schundler, Helms retiring<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nThe gonorrhea in costume<br \/>\nThe white sheet diseases<br \/>\nThat have murdered black people<br \/>\nTerrorized reason and sanity<br \/>\nMost of humanity, as they pleases<\/p>\n<p>They say (who say?)<br \/>\nWho do the saying<br \/>\nWho is them paying<br \/>\nWho tell the lies<br \/>\nWho in disguise<br \/>\nWho had the slaves<br \/>\nWho got the bux out the Bucks<\/p>\n<p>Who got fat from plantations<br \/>\nWho genocided Indians<br \/>\nTried to waste the Black nation<\/p>\n<p>Who live on Wall Street<br \/>\nThe first plantation<br \/>\nWho cut your nuts off<br \/>\nWho rape your ma<br \/>\nWho lynched your pa<\/p>\n<p>Who got the tar, who got the feathers<br \/>\nWho had the match, who set the fires<br \/>\nWho killed and hired<br \/>\nWho say they God &amp; still be the Devil<\/p>\n<p>Who the biggest only<br \/>\nWho the most goodest<br \/>\nWho do Jesus resemble<\/p>\n<p>Who created everything<br \/>\nWho the smartest<br \/>\nWho the greatest<br \/>\nWho the richest<br \/>\nWho say you ugly and they the goodlookingest<\/p>\n<p>Who define art<br \/>\nWho define science<\/p>\n<p>Who made the bombs<br \/>\nWho made the guns<\/p>\n<p>Who bought the slaves, who sold them<\/p>\n<p>Who called you them names<br \/>\nWho say Dahmer wasn&#8217;t insane<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Who stole Puerto Rico<br \/>\nWho stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan<br \/>\nAustralia &amp; The Hebrides<br \/>\nWho forced opium on the Chinese<\/p>\n<p>Who own them buildings<br \/>\nWho got the money<br \/>\nWho think you funny<br \/>\nWho locked you up<br \/>\nWho own the papers<\/p>\n<p>Who owned the slave ship<\/p>\n<p>Who run the army<\/p>\n<p>Who the fake president<br \/>\nWho the ruler<br \/>\nWho the banker<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Who own the mine<br \/>\nWho twist your mind<br \/>\nWho got bread<br \/>\nWho need peace<br \/>\nWho you think need war<\/p>\n<p>Who own the oil<br \/>\nWho do no toil<br \/>\nWho own the soil<br \/>\nWho is not a nigger<br \/>\nWho is so great ain&#8217;t nobody bigger<\/p>\n<p>Who own this city<\/p>\n<p>Who own the air<br \/>\nWho own the water<\/p>\n<p>Who own your crib<br \/>\nWho rob and steal and cheat and murder<br \/>\nand make lies the truth<br \/>\nWho call you uncouth<\/p>\n<p>Who live in the biggest house<br \/>\nWho do the biggest crime<br \/>\nWho go on vacation anytime<\/p>\n<p>Who killed the most niggers<br \/>\nWho killed the most Jews<br \/>\nWho killed the most Italians<br \/>\nWho killed the most Irish<br \/>\nWho killed the most Africans<br \/>\nWho killed the most Japanese<br \/>\nWho killed the most Latinos<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Who own the ocean<br \/>\nWho own the airplanes<br \/>\nWho own the malls<br \/>\nWho own television<br \/>\nWho own radio<\/p>\n<p>Who own what ain&#8217;t even known to be owned<br \/>\nWho own the owners that ain&#8217;t the real owners<\/p>\n<p>Who own the suburbs<br \/>\nWho suck the cities<br \/>\nWho make the laws<\/p>\n<p>Who made Bush president<br \/>\nWho believe the confederate flag need to be flying<br \/>\nWho talk about democracy and be lying<\/p>\n<p>Who the Beast in Revelations<br \/>\nWho 666<br \/>\nWho know who decide<br \/>\nJesus get crucified<\/p>\n<p>Who the Devil on the real side<br \/>\nWho got rich from Armenian genocide<\/p>\n<p>Who the biggest terrorist<br \/>\nWho change the bible<br \/>\nWho killed the most people<br \/>\nWho do the most evil<br \/>\nWho don&#8217;t worry about survival<\/p>\n<p>Who have the colonies<br \/>\nWho stole the most land<br \/>\nWho rule the world<br \/>\nWho say they good but only do evil<br \/>\nWho the biggest executioner<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Who own the oil<br \/>\nWho want more oil<br \/>\nWho told you what you think that later you find out a lie<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Who found Bin Laden, maybe they Satan<br \/>\nWho pay the CIA,<br \/>\nWho knew the bomb was gonna blow<br \/>\nWho know why the terrorists<br \/>\nLearned to fly in Florida, San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion<br \/>\nAnd cracking they sides at the notion<\/p>\n<p>Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain&#8217;t goin&#8217; nowhere<\/p>\n<p>Who make the credit cards<br \/>\nWho get the biggest tax cut<br \/>\nWho walked out of the Conference<br \/>\nAgainst Racism<br \/>\nWho killed Malcolm, Kennedy &amp; his Brother<br \/>\nWho killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?<br \/>\nAre they linked to the murder of Lincoln?<\/p>\n<p>Who invaded Grenada<br \/>\nWho made money from apartheid<br \/>\nWho keep the Irish a colony<br \/>\nWho overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later<\/p>\n<p>Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,<br \/>\nthe same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,<br \/>\nNeruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,<\/p>\n<p>Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane,<br \/>\nBetty Shabazz, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone,<br \/>\nLittle Bobby<\/p>\n<p>Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,<br \/>\nAssata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton<\/p>\n<p>Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,<br \/>\nMedgar Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,<br \/>\nWas it the ones who tried to poison Fidel<br \/>\nWho tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed<\/p>\n<p>Who put a price on Lenin&#8217;s head<\/p>\n<p>Who put the Jews in ovens,<br \/>\nand who helped them do it<br \/>\nWho said &#8220;America First&#8221;<br \/>\nand ok&#8217;d the yellow stars<\/p>\n<p>Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt<br \/>\nWho murdered the Rosenbergs<br \/>\nAnd all the good people iced,<br \/>\ntortured, assassinated, vanished<\/p>\n<p>Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,<br \/>\nIran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,<br \/>\nSyria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,<\/p>\n<p>Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo<br \/>\nWho invented Aids<br \/>\nWho put the germs<br \/>\nIn the Indians&#8217; blankets<br \/>\nWho thought up &#8220;The Trail of Tears&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who blew up the Maine<br \/>\n&amp; started the Spanish American War<br \/>\nWho got Sharon back in Power<br \/>\nWho backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,<br \/>\nChiang kai Chek<\/p>\n<p>Who decided Affirmative Action had to go<br \/>\nReconstruction, The New Deal,<br \/>\nThe New Frontier, The Great Society,<\/p>\n<p>Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for<br \/>\nWho doo doo come out the Colon&#8217;s mouth<br \/>\nWho know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza<br \/>\nWho pay Connelly to be a wooden negro<br \/>\nWho give Genius Awards to Homo Locus<br \/>\nSubsidere<\/p>\n<p>Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,<br \/>\nWho poison Robeson,<br \/>\nwho try to put DuBois in Jail<br \/>\nWho frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs,<br \/>\nGarvey,<br \/>\nThe Scottsboro Boys,<br \/>\nThe Hollywood Ten<\/p>\n<p>Who set the Reichstag Fire<\/p>\n<p>Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed<br \/>\nWho told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers<br \/>\nTo stay home that day<br \/>\nWhy did Sharon stay away?<\/p>\n<p>Who? Who? Who?<\/p>\n<p>Explosion of Owl the newspaper say<br \/>\nThe devil face cd be seen<\/p>\n<p>Who make money from war<br \/>\nWho make dough from fear and lies<br \/>\nWho want the world like it is<br \/>\nWho want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national<br \/>\noppression and terror violence, and hunger and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the ruler of Hell?<br \/>\nWho is the most powerful<\/p>\n<p>Who you know ever<br \/>\nSeen God?<\/p>\n<p>But everybody seen<br \/>\nThe Devil<\/p>\n<p>Like an Owl exploding<br \/>\nIn your life in your brain in your self<br \/>\nLike an Owl who know the devil<br \/>\nAll night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl<br \/>\nExploding in fire. We hear the questions rise<br \/>\nIn terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog<\/p>\n<p>Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell<br \/>\nWho and Who and WHO who who<br \/>\nWhoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bk9\">Copyright (c) 2001 Amiri Baraka. All Rights Reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6415\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri.jpg\" alt=\"amiri baraka\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6416\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/BARAKA-2-obit-articleLarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6416\" class=\"wp-image-6416 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/BARAKA-2-obit-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"BARAKA-2-obit-articleLarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Baraka 1968 photo by Neal Boenzi\/The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/baraka-vdrsvp-comp-enhanced560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6417\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/baraka-vdrsvp-comp-enhanced560.jpg\" alt=\"baraka-vdrsvp-comp-enhanced560\" width=\"560\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri_baraka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6412\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri_baraka.jpg\" alt=\"amiri_baraka\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri_baraka.jpg 400w, https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/amiri_baraka-340x213.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering one of the most respected and widely published African-American writer and poet Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 \u2013 January 9, 2014) \u00a0&#8220;Somebody Blew Up<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/blew-america\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-conscious-music"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/baraka-vdrsvp-comp-enhanced560.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}