It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: Pandora on May 28, 2014, 10:19:31 AM
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Born Marguerite Johnson, she once wrote ....
... in a passage about boxing great Joe Louis's defeat in 1936 against German fighter Max Schmeling:
"My race groaned," she wrote. "It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. ... If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_MAYA_ANGELOU?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-28-10-09-16 (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_MAYA_ANGELOU?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-28-10-09-16)
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I really don't believe Black Pride exists on the Left. It is what they tell themselves to avoid the reality that they view their very existence through a lens of shame at being Black. They stamp themselves with a brand of Blackness, and in their minds, everything negative is because of that brand.
Break free of your self-imposed shackles, Black folk! Don't die a slave, like Maya Angelou!
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Having a hard time caring any more for any people who through willfull ignorance/idiocy choose to be slaves to a state or minions of organizations that perpetuate such individual liberty-sapping servitude!
::smallestviolin::
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I really don't believe Black Pride exists on the Left. It is what they tell themselves to avoid the reality that they view their very existence through a lens of shame at being Black. They stamp themselves with a brand of Blackness, and in their minds, everything negative is because of that brand.
Break free of your self-imposed shackles, Black folk! Don't die a slave, like Maya Angelou!
The only pride I've seen is how much can they fleece da white folk?
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The Decision That Changed My Life:
Keeping My Baby
by Maya Angelou (http://www.feministsforlife.org/remembering-maya-angelou/) from an interview in 2001
I’m telling you that the best decision I ever made was keeping that baby! Yes, absolutely.
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Well, hooray for him. So, afterward, was she a proponent of Planned Abortionhood?
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Well, hooray for him. So, afterward, was she a proponent of Planned Abortionhood?
I don't know. Didn't like her and thought she wrote garbage but I thought it was interesting.
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Well, I got a theory (everyone has one, just like *, this I stole but I share); it's only a random clump of cells until she decides she wants it. Then, it's okay.
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It is the rare "poet" who can by their craft and art stir the spirit and inspire the soul. Most of those who claim the title are talentless hacks who stand on the shoulders of the few with actual talent. Angelou was of the latter variety, in my opinion...she was just working the system as most of her ilk do, crafting crap that elites latch onto in an effort to raise their own social credibility. A self perpetuating cycle of literary BS.
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Her crap:
A Plagued Journey
There is no warning rattle at the door
nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer boards.
Safe in the dark prison, I know that
light slides over
the fingered work of a toothless
woman in Pakistan.
Happy prints of
an invisible time are illumined.
My mouth agape
rejects the solid air and
lungs hold. The invader takes
direction and
seeps through the plaster walls.
It is at my chamber, entering
the keyhole, pushing
through the padding of the door.
My retort...
A Tortured Reading
There was no talent present in her work
nor wisdom words to impart meaning there
Cheered in her affirmed action I know that
skin tone implies grandeur
the shabby work of an ignorant
woman of color.
Bitter poems of
a dysfunctional past are hoisted
My mouth agape
rejects the air of artistry and
noses held as her invasion takes
root in pseudo
manufactured culture
which seeps through welfare walls.
It is my opinion, rattling
an anal culture promoting
drivel through a crack in a sidewalk.
Please step over the weeds.
Read my doggerel and you’ll see;
My lofted muse? Audacity.
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Well done Pablo, well done!
::clapping::
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Well done Pablo, well done!
::clapping::
I'm impressed. I didn't realize we had a poet in our midst.
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Never understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
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Never understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
Me, neither. Evidently we're not "cultured" enough.
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Never understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
Me, neither. Evidently we're not "cultured" enough.
Not intelligent enuf to see the beautifully designed clothes which the emperor is wearing.
#TheEmperorHasNoClothes
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Never understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
[/quoteNever understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
Me, neither. Evidently we're not "cultured" enough.
Oh come on now, y'all know exactly why she was such a celebrated "artist"....
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Never understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
[/quoteNever understood the "appeal" of her weird "poetry".
Me, neither. Evidently we're not "cultured" enough.
Oh come on now, y'all know exactly why she was such a celebrated "artist"....
Yup.
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Well done Pablo, well done!
::clapping::
I'm impressed. I didn't realize we had a poet in our midst.
::clapping::
that's great