Living Room: New Poems, 1980-1984 (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1985), 45-46, 104-106, 127, 132-134. I didnt know and nobody told me and what could I do or say anyway. For Arab feminists of my generation, June Jordan brought us out of our invisibility. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Her books and poems were a place where these roles could merge together or be non-existent altogether. If you have an Apple TV subscription, you can download the Free Speech TV app for Apple TV free in the app store. She reminded us back in the early 1980s that it wasn’t just Lebanon that was engaged in a so-called “Civil War”, but that there was a deep history and ongoing White/Black confrontation in our own country that looked a lot like civil war. defuse and deform the motivating truth of critical human response to pain” (179). Apologies To All The People In Lebanon Poem by June Jordan - Poem Hunter. She is co-editor of Gender, Politics and Islam (2002) and Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women’s Novels (2002). They said they were victims. I went because I believe that to be Muslim and Arab is to be a people subject to the most uninhibited, lethal bullying possible.” Yes, I did know it was the money I earned as a poet that paid for the bombs and the planes and the tanks that they used to massacre your family But I am not an evil person The people of my country aren‘t so bad You can expect but so much from those of us who have to pay taxes and watch American TV You see my point; I’m sorry. The LF Show airs on CUNY TV at the following times. . One hundred and thirty-five thousand Palestinians in Beirut and why didn’t you take the hint? To watch The LF Show on YOU TUBE Click here , you need an YOU TUBE subscription and an device. See All Poems by this Author They told you to go. June Jordan, “Poem About My Rights” from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). “Eye Witness in Lebanon,” The Progressive (August 1996), 13. It is in large measure for this price she paid so willingly that we today owe a debt to Jordan and her insistent voice, clearing the way for those who followed. Nor do I wish to speak about. July 4, 1974. Apple devices include: The LF Show streams on the Free Speech TV channel of Apple TV. She saw the silencing of debate as an affront to the intellectual and moral life of our country. She recognized “At the end of this century massacre/remains invisible unless the victim/skin reads white” (1985, 127). They said you were Arabs. Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? She critiques how “the courtesies of order. . Once you have installed the Free Speech TV app, search for The Laura Flanders Show. In this process of becoming other, the lines between I/Palestinian, my/our merge in collective grief, moving toward a kind of home in the world. . Jordan concludes with her now famous lines: Jordan elides her marginalization as a Black woman and her identification with the Palestinians, then highlights her privileged connection to those making “our” way home, while others’ lives and homes have been destroyed. She insisted on drawing clear analogies between anti-Arab racism and the resonant history of anti-Black racism that Americans more readily comprehend. Jordan reminded us that those silences must be spoken or exploded, despite censorship, bullying, endangered friendships. By June Jordan. Subscribe to The LF Show newsletter and get news, updates and commentary right to your inbox every week. By June Jordan. . Check your local listings to find out what channel Link TV is for you. Significantly, Jordan uses a negative construct to expose the mechanisms of silencing, even as she bears witness to these “unspeakable events.” The poem turns from these silencings to impugning the logic of genocidal exclusion and the sanitized discourse that attempts to cover over the horrific violence that assaults our collective humanity. I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? “Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before." I’m sorry. Aja Monet celebrated iconic poet June Jordan, in a reading of a poem dedicated to the 600,000 Palestinian men, children, and women who lived in Lebanon from 1948 to 1943. For Arab feminists of my generation, June Jordan brought us out of our invisibility. She called us family. This is my song to June Jordan, who did not die, for as she wrote, “My life seems to be an increasing revelation of the intimate face of universal struggle” (1981, xi). For Jordan, those silences centered on her “gay rights” or bisexuality, and on Palestine—issues she saw as the most silenced in US society (A Place of Rage, 1991). Jordan also understood that to speak of Palestine was “the ultimate taboo, a taboo behind which the fate of entire people, the Palestinians, might be erased” (2002, 193). Her essays have appeared in Arab & Arab American Feminisms, Arabs in America, Food for Our Grandmothers, and other collections and journals. . 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