Amiri Baraka

Not A White Shadow But Black People Will Be Victorious

Blues walk weeps ragtime Painting slavery women laid around working feverishly for slave master romeos as if in ragtime they spill their origins like chillers (lost chillen in the streets to be telephoned to by Huggie Bear from channel 7, for the White Shadow gives advice on how to hold our homes together, tu tambien, Chicano Hermano). Genius bennygoodman headmaster philanthropist romeos– but must coach cannot shoot– hey coah-ch hey coah-ch trembling fate wrapped in flags hey coah-ch you can hug this while you at it coah-ch Women become goils gals grinning in the face of his no light Men become boys & slimy roosters crowing negros in love with dressed up pimp stupidity death hey coah-ch you wanna outlaw the dunk, cannot deal with sky man Darrell or double dipping hip doctors deadly in flight cannot deal with Magic or Kareem ... hey coah-ch, coah-ch bench yourself in the garbagecan of history o new colonial dog denying with lying images our strength & African Funky Beauty nomatter the three networks idiot chatter Arthur Blythe Says it! in the tradition Tradition of Douglas of David Walker Garnett Turner Tubman, of ragers yeh ragers, (of Kings, & Counts, & Dukes of Satchelmouths & Sun Ra's of Bessies & Billies & Sassys & Ma's Musical screaming Niggers yeh tradition of Brown Welles & Brown Sterling and Brown Clifford of H Rap & H Box Black baltimore sister blues antislavery singers countless funky blind folks & one leg country beboppers bottleneck in the guitarneck dudes whispering thrashing cakewalking raging ladies & gents getdown folks, elegant as skywriting tradition of DuBois Baby Dodds & Lovie Austin, Sojourner I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say you terrible you awful, Lester, why do you want to be the president of all this of the blues and slow sideways horn. tradition of blue presidents locked up in the brig for wearing zoot suit army pants tradition of monks and outside dudes of marylous and notes hung vibrating blue just beyond just after just before just faster just slowly twilight crazier than europe or its racist children bee-doo dee dee-dee dee dee-dee (Arthur tradition of shooters &silver fast dribblers of real fancy motherfuckers fancy as birds flight, sunward/high highhigh sunward arcs/swoops/spirals in the tradition ¼ notes eighth notes 16th notes 3nds, 64ths, 128ths, silver blue presidents of Langston & Langston Manifestos Tell us again about the negro artists &the racial mountain so we would not be negro artists, McKay Banjoes and Homes In Harlem, Blue Black Boys & Little Richard Writes. Tradition of For My People Margaret Walker & David Walker & Jr Walker & Walker Smith Sweet Ray Leonard Rockin In Rhythm w/ Musical Dukes What is this tradition Basied on, we blue Black Wards struggling against a Big White Fog, Africa people, our fingerprints are everywhere on you america, our fingerprints are everywhere, Cesaire told you that, our family strewn around the world has made more parts of that world blue and funky, cooler, flashier, hotter, afro-cuban james brownie a wide panafrican world Tho we are afro-americans, african americans let the geographic history of our flaming hatchet motion hot ax motion hammer & hatchet our cotton history our rum & indigo sugarcane

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