Baraka's Poem 'Somebody Blew Up America'

Baraka ______ started writing poems on the injustices that were occurring in the Black Communities around the world. His most controversial poem of all “Somebody blew up America” centered around the attack on the World Trade Center. He wrote about the media’s claims to Osmas Bin Laden being the mastermind behind the attack. Baraka showed the depths of systematic racism embed in the heart of America’s history. Each stanza in his poem explains racial terrorism being the main cause behind the 9/11 attack against America. Lines 1-11, of his poems the readers were introduced to Baraka’s views on the cause of the attack. He focused on racial terrorism, being the main cause of the 9/11 attack. Line 1-11 states “They say its
On the day of 9/11, no one had identified a single Israelis who worked in the WTC that received a phone call to stay home and not go to work that day. Still to this very day, not one Israeli employee at the World Trade Center has come forth about their whereabouts on the day of the terror attacked the World Trade Center. Additionally, 4000 Israelis had received notices to the planned attack, and not one told the other workers that they might spare their lives. The Israelis did not even report the terror attack to the U.S. government who could have put a stop to it. It is likewise ludicrous that the Israeli government would not caution its nearest and most capable partner of an assault on its way. Baraka goes on to ask the question “Why did Sharon stay away?”(Line__ ). Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was booked to come to New York to meet with the United Nations. Baraka believed that it was the United Nations that advised them to stay away because the administration knew beforehand that the disaster was going to occur. The word ‘who’ is echo throughout the poem. Lines __,