"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 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 own the oil Who want more oil Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is "
One Way of Reading 'Somebody Blew Up America by Selwyn Cudjoe
Ralph Ellison had cause to ask:
Why is it so often true that when critics confront the American as Negro they suddenly drop their advanced critical armament and revert with an air of confident superiority to quite primitive modes of analysis? Why is it that sociology-oriented critics seem to rate literature so far below politics and ideology that they would rather kill a novel [or a poem] than modify their presumptions concerning a given reality which it seeks in its own terms to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is? (Shadow and Act, p. 108)
"Again, Baraka is very specific in his intention. He says: "We cannot in good conscience, celebrate what seems to us an international crusade to set up a military dictatorship over the world, legitimized at base, by white supremacy, carried out, no matter the crude lies, as the most terrifying form of imperialism and its attendant national oppression. All of it designed to drain super profits bluntly from the colored peoples of the world, but as well, from the majority peoples of the world.!" Then he makes an important statement: "For all the frantic condemnations of Terror by Bush & co, as the single International Super Power, they are the most dangerous terrorists in the world!' There are many persons who would not/do not want to believe this, but some of us see Bush's terrorist campaign as a way to scuttle many of our civil liberties and the war directed against Iraq as a very dangerous undertaking." Professor Cudjoe Trinicenter.com
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