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JUNE JORDAN POLITICAL ESSAYS Affirmative Acts ALSO BY JUNE JORDAN Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 A JuneJordan's Poetryfor the People: Revolutionary Blueprint I Was Looking at the Ceilingand Then ISaw the Sky HarukolLove Poetry ofJuneJordan TechnicalDifficulties: New PoliticalEssays Naming Our Destiny: New andSelectedPoems Moving Towards Home: SelectedPoliticalEssays Lyrical Campaigns: SelectedPoliticalEssays On Call: New PoliticalEssays Living Room, New Poems 1980-1984 Civil Wars, SelectedEssays 1963-1980 Things That IDo In The Dark, SelectedPoems 1954-1977 Kimako's Story Passion, New Poems 1977-1980 New New Room Life: New Days, Poems ofExile andReturn Fannie Lou Hamer Dry Victories His Own Where The Voice ofthe Children V Soubcript Who Look AtMe Affirmative Acts Political Essays June Jordan ® ANCHOR BOOKS DOUBLEDAY NewYork London Toronto Sydney Auckland AN ANCHOR BOOK PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY t a division ofBantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Anchor Books, Doubleday, and the portrayal ofan anchor are trademarks ofDoubleday, a division ofBantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Some essays were previously published as follows: "Mandela and the Kingdom Come" (April 1990), "Intifada, USA" (December 1990), "Thomas Was Not the Point" (November 1991), "The Big-Time Coward" (April 1991), "On the Night ofNovember 3, 1992" (January 1993), "Valentine's Day" (February 1992), "The Light ofthe Fire" (June 1992), "Willing and Able" (August 1992), "I Am Seeking an Attitude" (May 1993), "Islam and the USA Today" (February 1993), "The Truth ofRodney King" (June 1993), "Bosnia Betrayed" (September 1993), "Freedom Time" (November 1993), "A Good Fight" (December 1993), "Give Me Two Reasons" (March 1994), "A Powerful Hatred" (May 1994), "We Are All Refugees" (July 1994), "Innocent ofWhat?" (September 1994), "Where I Live Now" (January 1995), "Where I Live Now, Part Two" (March 1995), "In the Land ofWhite Supremacy" (June 1995), "My Mess, and Ours" (October 1995), "Eyewitness in Lebanon" (August 1996), originally published in The Progressive, Madison, Wisconsin. "Root Canal to the Future ofWomen" appeared in Out ofthe Garden: Women Writers on the Bible, C. Biichmann and C. Spiegel, eds. (New York: Fawcett Columbine), 1994. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jordan, June, 1936- Aifirmative acts / June Jordan, — p. cm. — 1. Afro-Americans Civil rights. 2—. Affirmative actio—n programs United States. 3. —Afro-Americans Social condit—ions 1975- —. 4. Women's rights United Stat—es. 5. Women United—States Social conditions. 6—. United States P—olitics and government 1989- . 7. United States Social conditions 1980- 8. Jordan, June, 1936- . I. Tide. E185.615.J668 1998 305.896'073—dc21 98-37023 CIP ISBN 0-385-49225-1 © Copyright 1998 byJune Jordan ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FIRST ANCHpR BOOKS EDITION: NOVEMBER 1998 BOOK DESIGN BY RICHARD ORIOLO 13579 8642 10 DEDICATED TO Maria Poblet and all the goodstuff thatproduced the revolutionarypoem ofher life and all thegoodstuff the revolutionarypoem ofher life inspires Tanka Para Los Nmos quiero aprender dime dame sonidos tus conocidos libros y lenguas nuestras estas son las respuestas mariapoblet ^Copyright © 1998: Maria Poblet, printed by permission ofthe poet In memory of Dr. Elizabeth Ann Karlin 3/3/44-7/27/98 RJ.P. Iam indebted to Laura Flanders for the inspiration and the challenge ofall that intelligence all that love. 1 am indebted to Christopher David Meyer: My best sense ofdirection my steady good news my son.
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