Amiri Baraka was New Jersey’s poet laureate, before he was forced to resign. He wrote the "poem" "Someone Blew Up America," a "poem" that includes the lines:Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away? I would never wish ill on him just because of his misinformed anti-Semitism. So it is sad to read this:The 31-year-old daughter of Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and civil rights activist, and a friend were found murdered late Tuesday night in the home of another of Mr. Baraka’s children in Piscataway, N.J., the authorities said yesterday.
The victims, Shani Baraka, and Rayshon Holmes, 30, were shot several times and were found in the family room of the house owned by Ms. Baraka’s older sister, Wanda Pasha, the Middlesex County prosecutor, Bruce Kaplan, said.
He said detectives are searching for Ms. Pasha’s estranged husband, James Coleman, for questioning in the double murder. |