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I went because I believe that to be Muslim and Arab is to be a people subject to the most uninhibited, lethal bullying possible.” 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? By June Jordan. Hence they were and they are only Arabs, or terrorists, or animals. In “Civil Wars” (1981) Jordan recounts how the activist community gathers in the wake of yet another crisis and enacts rituals of polite behavior. Today a video circulates, When I see them, I see us—a montage of poetry and images juxtaposing the anti-Black violence and the violence of Israel occupation, with statements of Black-Palestinian Solidarity—this is one of Jordan’s legacies. . This bold Black woman, this brilliant poet, never retreated from speaking unspeakable truths. She saw the silencing of debate as an affront to the intellectual and moral life of our country. Her essays have appeared in Arab & Arab American Feminisms, Arabs in America, Food for Our Grandmothers, and other collections and journals. Enter your information in the form and a representative will contact you shortly. Jordan’s words and activism were visionary; in speaking unapologetic, piercing truths and drawing connections across struggles, she was ahead of her time. She critiques how “the courtesies of order.

(Click here to get it now.) All Rights Reserved, June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice, The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them, Generations of white women’s violence stop here: On watching the Amy Cooper video with my 5-year-old white daughter, Our Letter of Camaraderie to Black Women and WOC: A promise from (some) white women after watching Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us”, The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé. Jordan came to believe that it was not misinformation that perpetuated the slaughter in Lebanon, but rather racist dehumanization: “The problem was that the Lebanese people, in general, and the Palestinian people, in particular, are not whitemen: They never have been whitemen. See All Poems by this Author Enter your zip code and select your provider to see where The Laura Flanders Show is playing near you. Apologies To All The People In Lebanon Poem by June Jordan - Poem Hunter. “Life After Lebanon” in Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (New York: Basic/Civitas Books, 2002), 187-195. She affirmed our collective struggle, our resistance and resilience with a resounding “I think we can” (1985, 45-6). The poem turns again on “[her] need to speak about living room” and her “need to talk about home.” Here, Jordan insists on a need for normalcy, as represented by the living room—this need for room to live—with its bitterly ironic implications of the German Lebensraum left as an indictment. I didnt know and nobody told me and what could I do or say anyway. . If you live in the New York area, you can watch The Laura Flanders Show on CUNY TV. Beginning each line with “I do not wish to speak about . I’m sorry. . As feminists, we have all felt these explosive spaces, the exchanges “requiring acrobatics of self-denial” (1981, 182).

You can then watch episodes at your leisure. She returned to Lebanon after Israel’s massacre of refugees at a UN camp at Qana in 1996. They said you were Arabs. 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. I really am sorry. Saliba is on the advisory board of the online Brill Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and Gaza Mental Health Foundation, and works locally with the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice. Her books and poems were a place where these roles could merge together or be non-existent altogether. 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). pursued from a heart of rage or terror or grief.

By June Jordan. .” she then does speak of bulldozers burying the dead whose arms and legs stick out of red dirt, of “nightlong screams,” of families forced to watch the murder of children and spouses. Pingback: "Naming Our Destiny": Afterword to The Feminist Wire's Forum on June Jordan - The Feminist Wire, Pingback: June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon |, All Content ©2016 The Feminist Wire Jordan never shied away from naming the unspeakable and breaking the silences that fester between us. For this, Jordan—like so many others (Arabs, Jews and other allies)–experienced smears, censorship, and distortions of her words. .” (193). In “Apologies to All the People in Lebanon,” she lets her own complicity, as an American taxpayer, stand for the whole people: “I didn’t know and nobody told me and what/could I do or say, anyway?” After a litany of official excuses, and gruesome details of slaughter, she concludes, “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. If you have an Apple TV subscription, you can download the Free Speech TV app for Apple TV free in the app store.

Excerpt: Aja Monet Reads “Apologies to All The People in Lebanon” by... Resisting Authoritarianism One Co-op at a Time, Riane Eisler: Partnerships in the Post Industrial Economy, Special Report: Self Governance – The Southern Movements’ Way, A smart TV with the Apple TV app installed. “Eye Witness in Lebanon,” The Progressive (August 1996), 13. This bold Black woman, this brilliant poet, never retreated from speaking unspeakable truths. The Laura Flanders Show airs on the Free Speech TV channel at the following times: Check your local listing to see what channel number Free Speech TV is by you. Her piercing critique of American complicity, the security state under the guise of democracy, and her celebration of resistance resonate with her earlier writings. Certainly they were not men and women and children; certainly they were not human beings with rights remotely comparable to the rights of whitemen, the rights of a nation of whitemen” (2002, 191). One hundred and thirty-five thousand Palestinians in Beirut and why didn’t you take the hint? Nor do I wish to speak about. I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? June sat in our living rooms after the worst massacres, expressed those unspeakable atrocities, and the grief, terror and rage in our hearts. They said something about never again and then they made close to one million human beings homeless in less than three weeks and they killed or maimed 40,000 of your men and your women and your children But I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? They called the screaming devastation that they created the rubble. Visit Omss-Poem for poets biography, poem, article, Dictionary and more.. Check your local listings to find out what channel Link TV is for you. Devices include: You have entered an incorrect email address! Apologies To All The People In Lebanon poem by June Jordan. By June Jordan. Early on, Jordan identified “the seemingly irreconcilable” divisions within feminist and leftist communities, between “those for whom Israel remained a sacrosanct subject exempt from rational discussion and dispute,” and “those to whom Israel looked a whole lot like yet another country run by whitemen whose militarism tended to produce racist consequences. 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). I really am sorry” (1985, 106).

June Jordan, “Poem About My Rights” from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Check your local listings to find out what channel CUNY TV is for you. She found strength in the steadfastness of the Lebanese cedar, in Palestinian resistance. There you can find The Laura Flanders Show. If you have a Roku device, go to the channel store and add the Free Speech TV channel. “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.” says Monet. She visited Palestinian refugee camps after the massacre of Sabra and Shatilla in 1982. She never deformed our truths with niceties.

She shared Arabic coffee with those in mourning, bore witness to the strangulation of Israeli occupation and the US-sponsored arsenal of death, and through her writing tied our suffering to the terrors of anti-Black racism and police violence in the US. –June Jordan, “To Sing a Song of Palestine”. And her words were prophetic about the unabated, yet largely accepted violence against Arabs and Muslims that was to ensue under the guise of “The Global War on Terror.”.

There is no comment submitted by members.. © Poems are the property of their respective owners. This scathingly satirical piece exposes the excuses, the failure of recognition and solidarity, the emptiness of apology in the face of this brutally executed invasion. Are you interested in learning more about lauraflanders? Jordan’s subsequent travels to Lebanon allow her to probe this question of solidarity more deeply. Didn’t you read the leaflets that they dropped from their hotshot fighter jets? . She embodied transnational feminist solidarity long before it was in vogue. . “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." 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. July 4, 1974. . The Laura Flanders Show airs on Link TV at the following times. 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. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge... Recite this poem (upload your own video or voice file). In the wake of 9/11, and months before her own death, Jordan wrote the introduction to her final collection, Some of Us Did Not Die (2002). 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. Therese Saliba is faculty of Third World feminist studies at Evergreen State College, Washington, and former Fulbright scholar in Palestine.

She embodied transnational feminist solidarity long before it was in vogue. You can watch episodes at your leisure. Go!

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