when he was finished, while the other half was either clapping quietly, or sitting with arms crossed, scowling. [Amiri] Baraka hadn't changed the poem, and the line that outraged so many people in 2002 was still there: "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?""What a difference eight years makes, huh?" Dr. Clement Price, Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, said to him after the reading.
"Well if you dribble long enough, you eventually make a basket," Baraka said.
from Capital New York: In Newark, Amiri Baraka recites infamous poem again, this time to applause
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