Heathens By Amiri Baraka

HEATHENS

(Freedom Jazz Dance or Dr. Jackle)

1 They Ugly
on purpose!

2 They get high
off Air Raids!

3 They are the oldest
continuously functioning
Serial Killers!

4 They murder
to Explain
Themselves!

5 They think
Humans
are food.

6 They imitate
conversation
by lying

7 They are always naked
and always dirty
the shower & tuxedo
don't help

8 They go to the bathroom
to have a religious
experience

9 They believe everything is better
Dead. And that everything alive
is their enemy.

10 Plus Heathens is armed
and dangerous.

Heathens in Evolution

When their brains got
large enough
They created
Hell!

Heathen Bliss

To be Alive
& Ignorant

Devil Worship

is Heathen
Self Respect

Civil Rights Bill # 666

The Negro Heathen Enablement Act.

"Essentially, it allows more Negroes to become
Heathens."

Heathen Technology & Media

Seek to modernize
cannibalism

& make it
acceptable to

the food.

"Christ Was Never in Europe!"

(Kwame Toure)

AT LYNCHINGS
HEATHENS WEAR
WHITE TIE
IN FORMAL
HOOD & ROBE

IN THIS FRENZIED
RITUAL
THEY RECONFIRM
THE SUPERIORITY
OF THEIR CULTURE!

Heathens Think Fascism is Civilization

AND THAT THEY ARE SUPERIOR
TO HUMANS & THAT
HUMANITY IS METAPHYSICAL

To under stand that ...

can you? I mean really
really dig what that means ... It's like monsters roaming
the earth ... who sting to live, who know no better. Who, like
wild animals, might sing, or make a sound some way, that
might pretend, imitate, a human cry, the sweet rationality of
love.

That is the art of it, that it exists and carries with it, so many
complexities, even that craziness, but then aesthetics is con

nected to the real. The deadliness of that

ugliness, or uncomprehended smoothness. The technology of
predatory creatures who feed on flesh, who shit on the tender
aspirations of human evolution, because they have no concept
tion of humanity. Except as that natural yelp, which they can
see as somehow, a reflex of what that might be. It took that
kind of vision for them to understand the use of religion in the
changing world. To cloak themselves in the modest trappings
of early Christianity, having murdered its prophet for power and
profit. ##