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according to google it's on page 178.

Posted by chris | January 24, 2007 5:00 PM
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Are you sure you're not thinking of H. Rap Brown?

Posted by Fnarf | January 24, 2007 5:19 PM
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I am sure I'm not thinking of H. Rap Brown.
He was not capable of writing such a beautiful poem.

-Not Down with H. Rap Brown

Posted by Josh Feit | January 24, 2007 5:24 PM
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Amiri Baraka Boxer

Posted by LH | January 24, 2007 5:29 PM
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who is...as you said before! i'm confused about what the confusion is.

Posted by LH | January 24, 2007 5:32 PM
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cutting and pasting will make one look like an idiot...Amiri Baraka (drop the Boxer - duh)

Posted by LH | January 24, 2007 5:38 PM
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Well, it's not very beautiful, but H. Rap Brown did write a poem, or something, called "Note to America". That's why I asked. It's not about Muhammad Ali, though. Ali is mentioned in the book it appears in, Die Nigger Die (subtlety was not Brown's strong suit).

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/dnd.html

Posted by Fnarf | January 24, 2007 6:23 PM
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I found a guy on a blog who thinks the quote is from Langston Hughes, and another guy on another blog (from a year ago) who says Baraka. The phrase does not otherwise appear in google.

Posted by Fnarf | January 24, 2007 6:32 PM
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Fnarf, you do realize it's pretty damned insulting to suggest Josh didn't try Google, don't you?


And it ought to be embarrassing for you, too, as you've just revealed yourself as one of those internet know-it-alls who's no better than his first set of search results (or the relevant Wikipedia article, whichever comes first). If I were you, I'd be particularly ashamed in this case, since the very first commenter in this thread managed to dig up the cite you couldn't find, and using Google, to boot.

Posted by robotslave | January 24, 2007 7:26 PM
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Chris @ #1,

Hilarious. So, I get home and flip to page One Hundred and Seventy Eig..... Oh look! It goes 174, 175, 176, ...179.

There's a remnant of page 177/178, but it's just a leftover scrap in the binding where a page was obviously torn out years ago (by me) and tacked onto some wall in some previous apartment of dorm.

And the poems on page 176 and the facing page 179 are not too good.

Posted by Josh Feit | January 24, 2007 7:45 PM
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Ah, I figured out what chris knows, and Fnarf doesn't.


Chris knows how to use Google Books.

Posted by robotslave | January 24, 2007 7:49 PM

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