Marvin X and Baba Lumumba (Donald Freeman), brother of ancestor Mamadou
Lumumba (Kenny Freeman). Playthell falsely claims he sent Mamadou to recruit
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale into the RAM Black Panther Party, which did briefly
exist before the Newton/Seale version, but Playthell's involvement is highly suspect,
certainly Baba has no knowledge of him. Marvin X introduced Eldridge Cleaver to
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton after Cleaver and Marvin X founded the Black House,
political/cultural center in San Francisco, 1967.
There are some negroes who think a black hangman is better than a white hangman, just as some negroes used to think a white man's ice was colder than a black man's ice. Yet we know a hangman is a hangman and ice is ice no matter who sells it. It is only a mental delusion that makes us imagine a black hangman is softer, gentler, just as it is delusional to think the white man's ice is colder.
If find it quite interesting the comments made by Playthell, a Negro of the first order, although I love the term Negro so perhaps Playthell deserves a lower rating on the scale of negrocities and thus should simply be referred to as a nigguh of the worse kind. Long ago I wrote a poem called Did You Vote Nigguh?
Did you vote nigguh
because you feel like an American?
Well that's what you are
an American nigguh
bought/sold in America....
Or something like that since I can hardly remember a poem written in 1968. But I find it interesting that Playthell got a "Bravo" for his Open Letter to Marvin X from Ishmael Reed, a mutual friend who reviewed my Wisdom of Plato Negro and said, "If it wasn't for Black Nationalism, black culture would be extinct!" And we must ask what or who was out to destroy Black culture except white supremacy America. But understand that it was also Black integrationists who would and did help destroy Black culture with their anti-Black agenda of assimilation that continues today with their warped concept of multiculturalism, described by Dr. Julia Hare as another term for failed integration. Didn't Malcolm X talk about integrating into a burning house?
Playthell, perhaps you are one of the privileged few Negroes who feel good about America. Perhaps you are indeed listed in the 1%, although the supreme irony might be that you once proclaimed yourself in the 99%, even informing me you are a founding member of RAM or Revolutionary Action Movement, under the leadership of Ancestor Robert Williams (Negroes with Guns). Ancestor Robert Williams must be turning over in his grave to see the pitiful Negro American sycophant you have turned out to be.
And then you have the nerve to question my knowledge of history. FYI, at this hour I am being hosted in Washington DC by the brother of Mamadou Lumumba (Kenny Freeman) the man you listed as sent to Oakland to recruit members for RAM, and who established the first Black Panther Party under the leadership of RAM. Baba Lumumba (Donald Freeman) and I constantly discuss RAM's role it forming the Black Panther Party. Again, FYI, I shared the stage yesterday with Max Stanford, aka Muhammad Ahmed, the leader of RAM. I suggest you check your dip stick and take a reading of your past, present and future. You may need an oil change.
As per history, Max or Muhammad Ahmed, Baba Lumumba and others are presently discussing writing an accurate history of the Black Panther Party in particular and the Black movement in general, specifically to correct the lies and distortions of revisionists and reactionaries such as yourself, although you are not alone in fabricating distortions of Black liberation history and our present condition that is perilous. You are the type of Negro similar to the captain of the Titanic who will sing the happy blues while the ship is sinking. You are convinced America can be saved while we have clear evidence that other nations and empires have fell into the dustbin of history, e.g., Egypt, Greece. Rome, Great Britain, USSR, et al.
Sadly, you submit Obama as our savior or the change we need, an imperialist in black face. And yes, 99% of Black people will vote for him again, as if they have a real choice. In reality, whether he wins or loses will not fundamentally change the condition of North American Africans. Only we can change our condition. Revolution is the only solution, not reform or some Miller Lite pseudo solution as fabricated by muddle headed right wing Vichy intellectuals.
--Marvin X
11/3/12
Howard University
Washington DC
An Open Letter to Marvin X
by Playthell Benjamin on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 6:28am ·
Yo Marvin!!!!! Since I am seriously trying to get our President reelected I would prefer not to be bothered with distractions like the revolutionary fantasies of silly old men who refuse to learn even the most obvious lessons of history. Since you persist in putting such pretentious mumbo jumbo on my wall alas, I can’t resist responding. The laundry list of President Obama’s failings that you posted on my page exposes you as a pretentious dullard who does not began to comprehend the complexities of the Job he is tasked with performing by the American people who voted him into office.
You say “We must not be emotional but rather employ logic. I was guilty of emotionalism during Obama’s first run. My revolutionary friends told me not to be fooled by a black face.” If a man of your years and experience admits that he voted for a president of the United States – the most powerful office in the world – without employing logic, then why should we listen to anything you have to say now? I see no evidence that you are any less a fool now than you were four years ago. You say that your “Revolutionary friends” enlightened you?
Well, given your history of selecting “revolutionary” comrades, before I can even consider what you say as a serious statement from a serious man I have a question for you: What became of the last "Revolutionary" organization you were involved with? Well let's look at the leadership. Bobby Seales became an expert on Texas Barbecue "Barbecuing with Bobby," Eldridge Cleaver became a right-wing religious fanatic whose big project was designing pants that emphasized the size of one's penis (putting yo stuff out front" was his stated objective.
And "The Servant" Huey Newton became a paranoid crack head who was killed by a crack dealer too young to be intimidated by the fact that he was a "great revolutionary leader." The fact that you have apparently learned nothing from that folly, and mistake the former Hip Hop DJ Glen Ford for a wise man, strikes me as irrefutable evidence that you are hopelessly deluded - a mad poet who cannot distinguish fact from fancy. It's a good thing that nobody is listening to the black left and yhall just talk to each other in the intellectual equivalent of a public jerk-off circle! Grow tha fuck up already Marvin!!!! NO RAGTAG BAND OF DELUDED LEFTIST IS GOING TO OVERTHROW THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!
In your youth you could be forgiven for believing in such folly, BUT YOU ARE AN OLD ASS MAN NOW DOG...AND THERE IS NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL! Since you are a literary man and not a serious student of history, let me acquaint you with a fact that has evidently escaped your fevered imagination: THERE ARE NO VIOLENT REVOLUTIONS IN COUNTRIES WHERE PEOPLE CAN VOTE THEIR GOVERNMENT OUT OF POWER!!!!!!! I DOUBLE DARE YOU LIKE A DOG TO CITE JUST ONE INSTANCE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE A VIOLENT REVOLUTION HAS OCCURRED IN A COUNTRY WITH A PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY LIKE OURS…JUST ONE MARVIN!!!!!! EVEN ADOLPH HITLER, WHO INTRODUCED A REVOLUTION FROM THE RIGHT, WAS ELECTED!!!!!!!!
A revolution is only possible when the overwhelming majority of the people of a nation want a revolution. People in the US want to make money. They want to buy houses and cars and fine clothes, smoke high grad herb and drink fine liquors hey want to enjoy the fruits of the richest society in the world! So please identify the constituency from which you intend to recruit your revolutionary forces. Perhaps you can tell us how you intend to recruit and train such forces, especially since the power of the government to counter any such attempt is infinitely greater than it was in the Sixties.
I was a gun totin revolutionary when you were probably in high-school. I was a co-founder of the Revolutionary Action Movement, which created the Black Panther Party of Oakland, when we dispatched our cadre Mamadou Dia – whom bobby Seales refers to by his slave name “Kenny Freeman”- out to Oakland to teach at Merritt Junior College. His assignment was to identify militant students on campus and recruit those with “revolutionary” potential. His first two recruits was Bobby Seales and Huey Newton. I bet you don’t know shit about this history. I hear that you have written a lot about the Black Panther experience, would you please refer us to your writings on the founding of the part where you recount the history I am relating here?
I am carefully reading Elaine Brown’s recollections of her experience in the BPP, “A Taste of Power.” I will be writing an extended essay on it after the election and I finish the final section of my forthcoming book “Witnessing the Motion of History: Notes on the Obama Phenomenon.” My next book will be a collection of essays “On the Burden of History: Reflections on the Crisis of Black Leftist and Nationalist Intellectuals, in which the critical essay on Elaine’s book will be prominently featured. I invite everyone to read this revealing book and ask themselves if they think this country would be better off if Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party was in charge, rather than under the leadership of Barack Obama and the Democrats! I sure as hell don’t!!!!
Barack is superior in intelligence and character to Huey Newton…furthermore he understands the political realities in the US and Huey was clueless. That’s why he is president and Huey is the dead victim of a street fight over dope!!! The portrait of Huey Newton that emerges clearly from Elaine’s book is of a paranoid, megalomanical thug given to violent outburst about trivial matters like all street thugs; a dreamer who was terrified of standing before the people and explaining his ideas. So he spent his days isolated in a luxury penthouse on Lake Merritt, paid for by rich white admirers, snorting coke and drinking cognac conjuring up crazy ass ideas for the underlings in the Panther Party to carry out without question.
It was a fiasco that got some serious people killed for nothing! That’s your legacy Marvin, and now you want to do it all again? You may not be smoking crack anymore, but whatever you are smoking these days must contain hallucinogens, because you are having a hard time distinguishing reality from illusions. Please answer the questions I have posed about how you intend to make this “revolution” you give lip service to. Give us your plan of action. Otherwise please go away, shut tha fuck up about “revolution” and stop posting dumbass shit on my wall!!!!!!
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