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Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1994 the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used with permission.
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27 novembre 2006 - 16:11
Rixe mortelle à Bienne: le Procureur réclame l'internement
BIENNE - Le Procureur a requis 16 ans de réclusion contre le principal accusé du double meurtre perpétré fin août 2004 à Bienne et réclamé son internement. Pour le ministère public, le jeune Suisse, qui continue de nier, est l'auteur des coups de couteau mortels.
Les circonstances dans lesquelles l'auteur présumé a poignardé ses deux victimes, un Espagnol de 28 ans et un Suisse de 27 ans, et la violence dont il a fait montre confinent à l'absence de scrupules, a conclu Me Peter Bohnenblust après plus de deux heures de réquisitoire. Les conditions de l'assassinat sont pratiquement remplies, selon lui.
Il a aussi souligné l'indifférence du prévenu à la douleur des familles en deuil et sa totale absence de remord. Seule circonstance atténuante, son jeune âge: l'accusé n'était âgé que de 20 ans lors des faits.
Frustration, vengeance, sadisme: le mobile du jeune homme reste opaque et le danger de récidive est grand, a poursuivi Me Bohnenblust. Il a donc recommandé de suspendre au profit d'un internement la peine de 16 ans de réclusion requise par ses actes.
Le jour de la tragédie, l'assassin s'était muni d'un couteau de cuisine de 22 centimètres de long pour sortir en ville. Profitant de la confusion d'une rixe généralisée, il a choisi ses victimes au hasard, les frappant successivement de la main gauche, de haut en bas, et de la main droite, de droite à gauche, a démontré le procureur devant le Tribunal le Tribunal de Bienne-Nidau.
Dans l'impossibilité d'établir les faits, le procureur a recoupé la mosaïque des dépositions de la quarantaine de personnes entendues durant l'instruction. Si l'obscurité trouble les perceptions, personne n'a vu quelqu'un d'autre que l'auteur présumé, qui dépassait de dix bons centimètres le reste de la foule, frapper les deux victimes, a-t-il dit.
Confronté aux déclarations des proches, en début d'audience, le jeune homme n'en a pas moins continué de protester de son innoncence. Il avait bien un couteau, mais il l'a jeté avant d'arriver devant le bar où a éclaté la rixe. Les traces de son ADN sur le manche du couteau? L'objet est tombé à terre à l'endroit où il avait saigné après avoir été blessé.
17:36 27.05.2007
Enorme bagarre devant la Coupole à Bienne
Une bagarre a impliqué près de 150 personnes vers 3h30 devant la coupole du Centre autonome de jeunesse à Bienne (BE). Personne n'a été blessé. Neuf personnes ont été interpellées, dont cinq ont été dénoncées au juge.
[ats] - Il s'agit d'un adolescent de 17 ans et de quatre hommes de 18 à 20 ans, précise la police cantonale bernoise dans un communiqué. Les agents dépêchés sur place en raison de la bagarre ont été accueillis par des jets de bouteilles et de pierres. Ils ont aussi été menacés verbalement.
Dans un premier temps, la police n'est pas intervenue afin d'éviter que la situation ne s'envenime, ajoute la police bernoise. Elle a procédé aux interpellations par la suite.
Et TOI t'es de quel gang ???????????????
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WICH GANG YOU BELONG TO ??????
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HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE THE FIRST
"That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained."
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Suicide or State-sanctioned Murder? MOVE's Battle with GuinnessBy Philly IMC | 11.07.2007
"If you look close enough you can see history altered before your eyes. Pick up the latest Guinness Book of World Records, flip to page 123 and you will see what I mean. Under the section 'Cults, Fans and Followers' the police bombing of the MOVE Organization in 1985 is listed as the sixth most deadly mass suiide in recent history…. Yes, you did read that correctly. A deliberate massacre, in which police dropped a bomb on a house, intentionally allowed the fire to burn and shot at those that dared attempt an escape, was labeled as mass suicide," writes MOVE supporter Kevin Price in his recent essay "MOVE's Battle With Guinness."
Price's essay follows a recent Philadelphia Inquirer interview with Ramona Africa, the sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 police assault. MOVE has confronted Guinness and is asking people to sign a petition in protest. Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has also recently written an audio essay on the topic.
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In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon. The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian decent and their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC. According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star which is invisible to the human eye. This companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy. It also rotates on its axis.This legend might be of little interest to anybody but the two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen, who recorded it from four Dogon priests in the 1930's. Of little interest except that it is exactly true.