Who Are The Who?

If a picture says a thousand words, than a poem paints a thousand pictures. Each time a poem is read, a new picture appears. Such is a poem I posted some time ago, yet few were able to see the pictures.

I would like to paint the pictures here though not quite with a thousand words. One major tool of poetry is the brush strokes of sound. In English classes we learn of the rhythmic beats of poetry. The other way sounds are created is by using certain words, e.g. words contain the sound make by the letter “S” The poem I am referring to, used the sound made by the word “who.” Thus the title of this article and an explanation of the use of the word “who” and who are the “who” in this particular poem and to make them visual.

The poem was first sent to me by my daughter along with links to its explanation. I went on to do further research.

The poem asks who at the same time by using the word “who”, it is making a statement. Instead of asking the poem is telling that the “who” did these things. One must understand who the “who” are before being able to understand the poem and appreciate its message. It is a message brought to its reader using the sound of the word “who.”

America's Wars Coming Home to Roost

Wars always Come Home to Roost.  It can be in the form of war products like DDT, drones, or security complex treating citizens as the enemy.  It can be suffering from the debt of war.  It can be helping soldier physically, emotionally and economically scarred.  It can be the divisiveness and hatred drummed up by those promoting the war.  It can be the pain families of soldiers suffer.  It can be future conflicts in the world.  It is coming home to roost in America to the benefit of the war industries. 

"Somebody Blew Up America" - By Poet & Activist Amiri Baraka

It is the question of "Who" that moves one when listening to this poem. It reminds me of the days of the Beatniks. It makes me want to snap my fingers as my mind views his words. It is a question that does not need a formal response. The answers are in the Mr. Amiri Baraka's questions of "Who?" It is similar to the question asked by some post September 11, 2001. What did you do to them? The "Who" was already known. It was the details of what the "Who" had done to these people to make them so angry to fly planes into buildings and kill Americans. I asked neither question as I knew the answers. I just needed the specifics of the details of the "What." So I wrote that that history would tell the "What" as it told the "What" that made Native Americans so angry as to attack the settlers. Thus for me my titled writing "Savages and Militants and Terrorist - The War Against Those Who Fight Back. That is those who fight back against the "Who."

Is the “Who” those who divide and conquer us for their own personal gains? All weapons do not go boom yet are as destructive i.e. racism, sexism, poverty, homelessness… What cultural insensitivity or, as my friend Aunk more correctly calls it cultural poisoning, caused September 11, 2001? Mr. Amiri Baraka speaks of many examples of silent weapons and their destructive nature.

There are still many unanswered question around September 11, 2001. Mr. Baraka asks some of my questions which already contain the answer. Most Mr. Baraka questions tell and show us why we should question and not let other think for us. His questions warn of a mind that only houses sound bites full of propaganda and the self-interest of others. As they say“free your mind” and to that one must question.

Somebody blew up America and it was just not what happened on September 11, 2001.  Who?

Let Mr. Baraka move you. Close your eyes if needed. Snap your fingers if needed. Listen again and again if needed and tell me at the end under comments what you feel and think about the "Who." We all at some time can be victimized by Mr. Baraka's "Who."

To read more of what my friend Aunk says on cultural health versus cultural poisoning, please visit his site by clicking the link below. 
http://culturalhealth.blogspot.com/

More on Mr. Baraka's poem
http://seekingjusticeamerica.blogspot.com/2013/05/who-are-who.html

Additional Links:

http://enwr77.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/08/12622542-somebody-blew-up-america-by-poet-activist-amiri-baraka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw&feature=g-hist

A Thank you to my daughter for sending me this poem.  Your children do listen to you, learn from you and get to know you.

The Affordable Care Act That America Cannot Afford

I do not agree with mandated payments to insurance companies who have nothing to do with healthcare.  Future GOP administrations will gut this bill and keep the mandate while not the health care.  This bill has helped the financial market which; insurance companies are part of and not the American people.  One of the most unaffordable consequences of the act is the loss of health care providers.  I wish to address that loss here. 

I just had lunch with my two sons and shared my concerns.  They both shared stories which demonstrate concern over the Affordable Care Act, its mandate and ties to the profits of insurance companies. I wish to share those stories along with a link below to an article of one physician's story in dealing with health insurance companies. 

Happy Father's Day to All My Brothers - The One Bull

Happy Father's Day to all of my brothers, the sons of Africa.  Happy Father's Day to the men that make us their princesses so as adults we are queens.  Happy Father's Day to the men who even through their abuse raise strong powerful Mustafas.  Happy Father's Day to the first fathers of the world.