: About Me

Majadi Baruti-

Husband, Father, Activist, Historian, Storyteller, Public Speaker, Poet.

"The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed" Steve Biko

This statement has helped me to define what it is I feel I have been called to do with my life. All of my life I have been told of the gifts I have been given; the ability to speak, and write effectively. What are they for if not for the upliftment of my people and humanity in general?

I feel the need daily to write and speak on issues that face oppressed and downtrodden people on this enormous lopsided ball we call the earth. I have written and spoken on issues such as Afrikan children's issues; famine, poverty, abuse. I have protested for Afrikan/Afrikan-American Studies programs. I have valued and spoken on the issues of abuse and mistreatment of women in music, politics and the economic arenas. I have fought against police brutality and harrassment. My work has included a 3 year stint in talk radio granting me access to the innerworkings of media. During this time I also assisted in an excellent Mayoral campaign.

I am finishing a children's fictional work covering issues like deforestation, human rights, and respect for indigenous cultures. It is the first in a series called The Popota Chronicles. I have finished a work called Noni's Gift, which is a book of poems I have written on my relationship with my wife. This work is unique in as much as it is my position on how I have affected her negatively and positively, making it intensely personal.

My writing can cover a gambit of issues including the environment, human rights and women's issues. Issues affecting Afrikan children particularly interest me as I am passionate about the Sudan/Darfur situation.

I am a writer of deep conviction and a charismatic speaker. Let me help you get your message out!

My passion is ...

Afrikan History and Culture!

I know too much about ...

A whole lot of useles facts that are only relevant for Jeopardy!

My parents always told me ...

I would be a Preacher?!?

My childhood ambition ...

Not to be a Preacher?!?

My favorite memory ...

My Wedding?

Why I write ...

Because writiing is an effective tool for progressive and challenging thought!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: Marcus Garvey/Watching:Spiderman 3/Listening: John Coltrane's "Naima"

My first job ...

Selling the Chicago Defender newspaper on the "L" in my hometown, Chicago

My best moment ...

Marrying my Queen/Wife, I see the beautiful me in the beautiful She!

My inspiration ...

My children, My wife, My people!

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Racism

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Juke Joint Now liquor stores form choirs, choirs of Black Men singing solo, so high they had been reminiscing on great migrations on the Mississippi, here they had been promised food, shelter, clothing, money] and friends in all walks of life leaving the church they became this, not all but some have stop signs on their heads staring at cars seeking the Saviour that will take them from all this... Black Women in their daily routine bend time and are inspired to self damnation, Viacom via B.E.T. promising a new type of blues which they exchange their souls for as did the men they forgot dow...

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