I Support Amiri Baraka and the New Jersey Poet Laureate Post

"Perhaps you would prefer the luke warm dissertations of a Billy Collins, a Kunitz, a Pinsky as our Poet Laureate. New Jersey is too dirty a state to settle for that sort of ilk. Best Wishes, Amiri."

"Your position against Amiri Baraka is simply wrong. Voters will remember."

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"It's sad how the "powers that be" always try to squash the voice of those who speak the truth about America's often ugly history....what hypocrisy!"

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"I Love Baraka!!!"

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"I support Amiri Baraka 100%! I support him on the basis that the poem is not anti-semitic. It clearly condemns the murder and oppression of all life. The poem speaks out against government systems that thrive off the oppression of people. I call the legis"

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"Poetry is in the eyes of the beholder. Governor McGreevey needs to open his."

"it's a terrible to see America's talented artists and intellectuals be struck down by ignorance, fear, and corrupt political agenda"

"A donation to the KKK and JDL has been made"

"Just listen to Amiri Baraka's poetry on the Roswell Rudd recording "Live in New York" and experience what a great poet he is."

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"In a more just society, we wouldn't even need to sign such a petition... there would be no need for Brother Baraka to pose the questions that he did in his poem, in a just society. There would be no need for him to have to fight for his Poet Laureate posi"

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"Please don't denigrate the freedoms Americans celebrate by resorting to censorship"

"Free Speech, Teaches us to be tolerant of others which allows us time to understand."

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