On Returning through the Door of No Return

The reed eternally years to return to the reed bed. Rumi taught us, this is why the sound of the reed flute is the sound of mourning, of lost. And thus we come naked and return naked to the womb of life. All that we do while here is in anticipation of the return, for Mother gave us birth and to Mother we return.

We have no illusions we shall be here forever, for we understand we are here from a moment. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said live like we shall be here forever and like we shall die tomorrow morning.

It is not about years, didn't MKL, Jr. say he wished he could live a long life, and yet he went to the Mountaintop and saw us in the promised land. Even the very thought is enough to make reality, for are not thoughts things?

Just do the work, that is most important, the work, the time, the energy, the sacrifice, the selflessness. After which we are not full of dread but happiness and joy, for we have done the work and passed the baton to the next generation. There is nothing else to do but say As-Salaam-Alaikum!

The Africans say the only death is to be forgotten, to not continue in the communal memory as ancestor. But if you do the work, you shall be remembered. Your spirit in the communal memory shall survive.

There is clear evidence of this in your students, children and grandchildren. Do the work!

There is no retirement for the soldier if the battle is not won. He fights on until victory, no matter age, disability, memory. No "slave" dies a natural death. Elder Ed Howard teaches us we were never slaves but Africans caught in the "slave system." Thus we must never address ourselves as slaves but rather as persons caught in the American Slave System (ASS).

This reevaluation of the African psycho will lead us to a solution to the identity crisis, Am I Kunta Kinti or Toby?

How long would it take a Jew to declare whether he is a victim of Nazism or is he a citizen of the world, citizen in a country possessing nuclear weapons to defend itself?

The Pan African psyche is yet enduring the wretchedness of colonialism and neocolonialism. Witness the recent mass murder of miners in South Africa!

We should know by now a black face shall not save you. In Newark, New Jersey, every black mayor has been a sellout, according to Black Arts Movement Godfather Amiri Baraka. "They sold out before they took the oath of office!"

Amiri Baraka told this writer he personally gave out copies of How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy by Marvin X to the entire Newark City administration, including the mayor, Cory Booker.

And so here we are at the precipice, and yet only you can save you, have no illusions, the North American African must come from his root traditions, suffered in the swamps, bayous, creeks, rivers,
plantations and free towns, urban cities, hoods and turfs.

Stand up and call fourth that ineluctable energy to be successful and honor ancestors!

--MarvinX/El Muhajir

8/18/12