Text 1
Monday in B-Flat
Amiri Baraka
I can pray
all day
& God
wont come.
But if I call
911
The Devil
Be here
in a minute!
Text 2
We are slaves now because we do not yet want to be free badly enough to take freedom. We are slaves now, niggers and slaves, because we do not yet want to be anything else badly enough to force the issue. We are controlled by white power because we do not yet want to work hard enough to fight long enough to break white power's hold on us."
BARAKA, Amiri. Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965. New York: Random House, 1971.
Analyze the sentences below about Amiri Baraka’s Moinday in B-Flat poem:
I. The devil mentioned in the second stanza refers to evil as more human trait than anything else.
II. There is a lack of believe in God and oppression on blacks, who also suffer from white authority and culture.
III. Although blacks pray to God for help, Gods wishes are given only to whites, even though they want it too.
IV. Cops are evil and they are not black men friends.
It is correct only what is said in: