This interview with Saul Williams is a great snapshot of how he infuses his poetry with politics.
Simultaneously, when you get something like that happening all of the nonsense comes out of the woodwork, like the tea party, Donald Trump, and white-power type of shit. I think people witnessing the tea party found that crazy, but at the same time they couldn’t find it so crazy because we were in the middle of a fascist uprising across Europe as well. Fuckshit’s happening everywhere.