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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 242
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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
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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.
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