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Ron Radosh

His early work, learned critics tell us, had merit. But radicalized first by Fidel Castro and later by Malcolm X, the poet first known as Leroi Jones changed his name to Amiri Baraka, left his white Jewish wife and children, and started his rapid descent into madness. The Times goes on to tell us that once he became a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, he renounced anti-Semitism. This judgment, of course, is a charade, as the 9/11 poem makes quite clear.

Thanks to the writer John-Paul Pagano, who concentrates on the issues of totalitarianism and antisemitic reactions to Israel and modernity, we have a complete recent list of his various tweets and comments about Jews. Here are some of the choice ones from Mr. Pagano’s compilation:

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew…I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured”

… a nigger wants to put down the Zionist and the Zionists control the radio, the television, the movies, the education…

“[the Jewish radicals] get niggers to fight harder for them than they fight for niggers… to die to see Jews get … power”

“Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head…” -

“The Fag’s Death / [the Jews] give us on a cross. To Worship… a dead jew… mad chains of dead jews…”

“…not even the courage to kill myself… Just be herded off like a common jew, and roasted in my teary denunciations.”

So where did the great poet and writer go for treatment, hoping to fend off death and get the best doctors? Thankfully, as the Times’ obituary informs us, “his death, at Beth Israel Medical Center, was confirmed by his son Ras Baraka, a member of the Newark Municipal Council.”

I hope Mr. Baraka does not rest in peace.

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My mother always told me to say only good things about the dead so I will. He's dead. Good.
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The liberal adulation of monsters like Baraka leads to only one conclusion: Liberalism is evil. Inherently evil.
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"Controvertial" = wannabe murderous antisemite.
"Hater" = says something mildly critical about Islam and/or homosexuals.
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I can only wish Mr. Baraka a version of the fate of Prometheus, who was doomed to have his liver continually eaten away by vultures, only to have it grow back again and again. In Mr. Baraka's version of this hell, his foreskin is continually cut away (without anethesia) by a Jewish mohel, only to grow back again and again...
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OK, but when you mentioned Chomsky I thought you were just reaching for the old joke about the "cunning linguist".
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Leroi Jones worked hard to scour all humanity from his soul and wallow in the cloaca maxima of anti-Semitism - leave it to NPR, achingly sensitive, to try to put back all that he left off , long ago.
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Oh, come on, Ron. Sure he was a psychotic totalitarian, racist and anti-Semite, but he hated America, too, so he can't be all bad.
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Speaking of homosexuals, leroi had a big issue with "fa@@ots" and simply could not shut up about the issue, and simply relished the word; everything non-violent, civilized or refined was "fa@@ot." It was always fa@@ot this and fa@@ot that with leroi, and that brings me to an unpleasant observation I have made over the years: black men are not only the biggest racists here in the US, but their recognition of homosexuality is so generally tinged with contempt and fear as to border on farce; homophobia is really a good term for it. As a rule, you can feel free to talk disparagingly of gay men around most black men, and you will get heads nodding in agreement--and leroi was exactly this kind of bigot, and said so again and again in print; he was much worse at the local barbershop, I'm sure.

His views on homosexuality do not appear to be the "live and let live" variety, but strike me as venomous, much like his position toward his other great hatreds: Jews and whites. I guess the lowest of the low would be a Jewish homosexual.

And aside from the delicious irony of dying in a Jewish hospital, here's the clincher: with a lunatic like leroi saying the things he did on a regular basis not just about whites and Jews, permitted targets in any liberal world-view, but against gays, why didn't anybody in the elite halls of PC liberalism say much of anything about it except that he could be "controversial?" Does anyone think an cultural icon of conservatism get away with any of the rot that leroi talked on a regular basis and hold chairs and honors at universities at the same time?

Because, as was the case of J. Wright, blacks who espouse racism, Jew-hatred, gay-baiting, and xenophobia, are given a complete pass by the cognoscenti--even though the liberal elite know full-well what is being said by these radical haters, they simply look the other way for political purposes, not an intellectual conscience in the bunch.

Leroi jones was no friend of the homosexual, make sure we add them to the long irrational list of groups of people he would have murdered, exiled or imprisoned if someone like him ever came near the levers of power he so deeply desired.
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Roses are red violets are blue
I'm glad he's dead and his poem is poo.
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During Jesse Jackson Jr's 1988 run for the presidency Jackson was scheduled to appear at SUNY at Stony Brook. I was there holding up half of a bed sheet banner saying "welcome to Hymietown". Candidate Jackson was unable to make his appearance. Amiri Baraka personally threatened us from the podium, saying that we should remember that his side was better at breaking heads than we were and that we were outnumbered.

That day we were outnumbered, College Republicans and Tagar banding together in a merry band of pranksters monkeywrenching with glee and no doubt annoying Amiri Baraka. For his personal threat to me, I forgive him and hope that God does not trouble him on my account. For the rest, it's not for me to say other than I do my best as a christian to wish all the dead rest in peace.
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Funny how the party of peace and tolerance often becomes what they behold.
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Compare another (nearly) simultaneous death: Ariel Sharon z"l. I was floored by the following:

When he got death threats in the guise of "Lily [his deceased wife] is waiting for you", his only reaction was a smile and "she is a wonderful woman and I'd love to be reunited with her, but it looks like we'll all have to wait a bit". Whatever drove this daring, ruthless warrior for his country, it wasn't hatred.
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If history is any guide it will take a generation before the truth about race-baiting con men like this slug can be told. To do otherwise opens the Lefg and Progressive graduates of the pomo tranzi nazi thought police process thst academia has fossilized into over the last decade to criticism and mockery of their foolishness which of corse is the equivalent of suicide to those who have created the near religious belief system that they are superior to us all and we need their community organizing and takes a village leadership in order to get by raising our kids, what to think, global climate engjneering you name it.
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I remember very well the riots in Newark, I was working in downtown (first job after graduation)

My comment is my he rot in H... maybe take along his friends from SDS. Yes Tom Haydon and his buddies stirred much trouble in Newark

They blamed the problems on as they called it "White Flight" because whites moved to the suburbs
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