Amiri Baraka

アミリ・バカラ　1934年10月7日～2014年1月9日　(Amiri Baraka October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014)

   

   On January 9, the person who led the whole life filled with passion left this world. So, I would like to look back upon the life filled of his ups and downs, and to consider it as mourning to him.

   He was born in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, and he went to Barringer High School. He won a scholarship to Rutgers University in 1951, but a continuing sense of cultural dislocation prompted him to transfer in 1952 to Howard University, which he left without obtaining a degree. When he moved to Greenwich Village working initially in a warehouse for music records in 1954, his interest in jazz began. And it continued up to now.

   He was a famous person in the United States as music critics about jazz, a poet, a writer, a radical black thinker, and an activist. He was a person who has so far considered the way of life which goes up to subject as something. He supported ardently Barack Obama who ran for the President, and threw the boos of the blame which went too far at the black left wing which takes an attitude critical of the candidate Obama, and became the center of attention. It is a problem which is worthy of this considering carefully why he who knows all about United States and the black problems of the United States has made a mistake in the judgment about Barack Obama. When U.S. carrying out armed attack to Libya, he announced the poetry make a charge against Obama.

   It just mourns over the heart by his too early death. May his soul rest in peace.

A list of reference: http://huzi.blog.ocn.ne.jp/darkness/2011/04/post_a08c.html

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