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FREEDOMWAYS   THIRD QUARTER 1969

What a white woman got
cept her white pussy
always sucking after blk/ness
what a white woman got
cept her straight hair
covering her fucked up mind...27

Or in Don L. Lee's "A Poem, for Black minds" which rather arrogantly (though for the times, understandably) states that Black and white just can't be mixed:

First. the color black/naturally
beautiful canNot be mixed with whi
teness ....................must not
it's
mine. ours. throughout black nights
with guns watch ..........them....28

The complete denunciation of the aesthetic qualities of poetry is summed up in LeRoi Jones' poem "Black Art":

Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a step. Or black ladies dying
of men leaving nickel hearts
beating them down. Fuck poems
and they are useful, they shoot
come at you,...
We want poems
like fists beating niggers out of Jocks
or dagger poems in the slimy bellies
of the owner-jews. Black poems to 
smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches ...
We want "poems that kill."
guns....
We want a black poem. And a
Black World.
Let the world be a Black Poem
And Let All Black People Speak This Poem
Silently
or LOUD29

Fortunately, not all of the new writings are entirely so blatantly propagandistic or didactic. LeRoi Jones is still able to produce beautiful

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Because it's poetry formatted purposefully, I've retained the splitting of words across lines and replicated unusual formatting as printed, but for searchability: blackness whiteness Half of the word "beautiful" is cut off at the end of the page - should be filled in on this page, and second half of word on next page, not included on that page, per instructions. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-14 22:29:15 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-14 22:38:07 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-15 11:24:12