news from kintespace.com ::: Monday, April 23, 2007
Contents:
- ::: Sonia Sanchez: right on: white america
- ::: Ezrah Aharone: Voting for White Multimillionaires
- ::: Johann Christoph Arnold: Will the Virginia Tech Tragedy Change Us?#### ::: Sonia Sanchez: right on: white america
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_sonia_sanchez0.html
This is what Sonia Sanchez, our superstar of poetry, wrote for her bibliography for Orde Coombs, his book, We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets—An Anthology back in 1970:
“blk/woman/mother/poet/teacher/barely surviving in wite/assed/amurica.”
As you can see, she stays in character. Decades later, here in this electronic information age, her energy produces a racial compression algorithm that is a super-cool hack of the style of e.e. cummings.
You may wonder why there are not more “big-name” poets here in the kinté space. Well, we want to add to the Internet presence of African and indigenous voices—we do not want to be redundant. This classic Sonia Sanchez poem, “right on: white america,” is a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the wired world.
::: Ezrah Aharone: Voting for White Multimillionaires
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/kp_aharone2.html
To rousing applause, Bill Clinton remarked at Ossie Davis’ funeral that Davis: “Would have been a very good President of the United States.” Although he “would have,” the question is “could he have” been president? Despite this worthy praise of Davis, the record shows Black men are routinely shutout from winning high-elected offices of governors and senators— So forget about “president.” Just ask Jesse Jackson or Kweisi Mfume or Al Sharpton or Lynn Swann or Michael Steele to name a few. If 50 of the most prominent Black people were glued together, they wouldn’t comprise a candidate worthy enough for Euro-Americans to elect to the White House.
::: Johann Christoph Arnold: Will the Virginia Tech Tragedy Change Us?
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/kp_johanna4.html
In the aftermath of Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech, the news media are doing an excellent job. Newspapers are printing lengthy stories on the lives of the dead and their beloved families. NBC has immortalized the shooter by airing his own video clips, photographs, and statements. Eyewitness accounts are being pieced together to tell us, minute-by-minute, how, when, and where each victim was gunned down. While some of this information may be useful, it mostly serves to sensationalize violence.