SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA
by Amiri BarakaAnd they say it's some terrorist, an inhuman 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 retiring.It wasn't the gonorrhea in costume
The white sheet diseases
That have murdered black people
Terrorized reason and sanity
Most of humanity, as they pleases.They 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 [money]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 [mother]
Who lynched your pa [father]Who got the tar, who got the feathers
Who had the match, who set the fires
Who killed and hired
Who say they're God & still be [are]the DevilWho [is] the biggest only
Who is most goodest [best]
Who do[es] Jesus resemble
Who created everything
Who [is] the smartest
Who [is] the greatest
Who [is] the richest
Who say [says] you['re] ugly and they['re] the goodlookingest [best looking]Who define[s] art
Who define[s] scienceWho made the bombs
Who made the guns
Who was[were] slaves serving
Who called you them [those]names
Who say[says] Dahmer wasn't insaneWho stole Puerto Rico
Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
Australia & The Hebrides
Who forced opium on the ChineseWho own[s] them [those]buildings
Who got the money
Who thinks you['re] funny
Who locked you up
Who own[s] the papersWho owned the slave ship
Who run[ran] the armyWho['s] the fake president
Who [is] the ruler
Who [is] the bankerWho own[s] the mine
Who twist[s] your mind
Who got bread
Who need[s] peace
Who [do] you think need[s] warWho own[s] the oil
Who do[es] no toil
Who own[s] the soil
Who is not a nigger
Who is so great ain't nobody biggerWho own[s] this city
Who own[s] the air
Who own[s] the waterWho own[s] your crib
Who rob[s] and steal[s] and cheat[s] and murder[s]
And make lies the truth
Who call[s] you uncouthWho live[s] in the biggest house
Who do[es] the biggest crime
Who go on vacation anytimeWho 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 LatinosWho own[s] the ocean
Who own[s] the airplanes
Who own[s] the malls
Who own[s] television
Who own[s] radioWho own[s] what ain't even known to be owned
Who own[s] the owners that aint the real ownersWho own[s] the suburbs
Who suck[s] the cities
Who make[s] the lawsWho made Bush president
Who believe the confederate flag need[s] to be flying
Who talk[s] about democracy and be [is] lyingWho [is[ the Beast in Revelations
Who Ý[is] 666
Who know[knew] who decide [decided]
Jesus get crucifiedWho the Devil on the real side
Who got rich from Armenian genocideWho [is] the biggest terrorist
Who change[d] the bible
Who killed the most people
Who do [did] the most evil
Who don't[doesn't] worry about survivalWho had the colonies
Who stole the most land
Who rule[s] the world
Who say[s] they['re] good but only do evil
Who [is] the biggest executionerWho own[s] the oil
Who want more oil
Who told you what you think that later you find[found] out [was]a lieWho found Bin Laden, maybe they['re] Satan
Who pay[s] the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna[going to] blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida
Who know[knew] why Five Israelis was[were] filming the explosion
And cracking their sides at the notion
Who need[s] fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin[g] nowhere [anywhere]Who make[s] the credit cards
Who get[s] the biggest tax cut
Who walked out of the Conference on Racism
Who killed Lumumba? 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[s] the Irish a colony
Who overthrow [overthrew]Chile and Nicaragua?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,
Princess Diana, Ralph Featherstone, Little BobbyWho locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus HuttonWho killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
Who tried to keep the Vietnamese OppressedWho 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 Ýthe yellow stars
Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
Who murdered the Rosenbergs
And all the good people murdered,
Tortured , assassinated, vanishedWho got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
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
And started the Spanish American War
Who got Sharon back in Power
Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
Chiang Kai ChekWho decided Affirmative Action had to go
Or Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New
Frontier, The Great Society,Who do[es] Tom Ass Clarence Work for
Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
Who know[s] what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
Who pay[paid] Connelly to be a wooden negro
Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
SubsidereWho overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
Who poison[ed] Robeson,
Who try [tried]to put DuBois in Jail
Who frame[d] Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame[d] the Rosenbergs, Garvey, Alger Hiss
Who set the Reichstag Fire
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna [going to] get bombed
Who let Jim Jones kill them[those] negroes in GuyanaWho , Who, Who explosion of Owl the newspaper say the devil face cd be [is]seen
Who make[s] money from war
Who mAke dough[money] from fear and lies
Who want[s] the world like it is
Who want[s] the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and
Terror
Violence, and hunger, and poverty.Who is the ruler of Hell?
Who is the most powerfulWho [do]you know [who has]ever
Seen God?But everybody [has] seen
The DevilLike an Owl exploding
In your life in your brain in your self
Like an Owl who know[s] 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 dogLike the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
Who and Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!