Dr. Nathan Hare, Father of Black and Ethnic Studies, celebrated his 85th earth day

photo Johnnie Burrell

The San Francisco Bay Area humbly celebrated, in a private ceremony, the 85th B Day of our most esteemed scholar and African healer, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black and Ethnic Studies, the intellectual warrior who has been Black, or rather White listed, and confined to house arrest over half a century for simply thinking black, loving black and sacrificing his life for black in the world of white supremacy and multiculturalism that his wife, Dr. Julia Hare said, "Multiculturalism is but another term for failed integration." 

I say, "If multiculturalism is so great, why are we yet on the bottom rung of the multicultural ladder?" Further, what are we bringing to the multicultural table? The Latinos come with their agenda, Asians with theirs, whites with theirs, LGBT with theirs, so what is our agenda? A job, job, job? Whites are seizing land and property, Latinos, Asians, LGBT the same, so what is our priority agenda item beyond a motherfuckin, goddamn punk ass job that was described by one of our elders as an indirect welfare handout called JOB?

Meanwhile, we are gentrified into tents and out of town, state and country, yes, have you heard of Blaxit, the current move of North American Africans to Ghana? But with the recent US military agreement with Ghana, how can we be sure Ghana is the panacea for the psycho-social issues of North American Africans or even Continental Africans? 

Furthermore, we are told North American Africans are the cause of gentrification in Ghana! So we cannot be sure if and when tribalism resurfaces as it did in South Africa with Zimbabwean refugees, also in Guyana, South America, when North American Africans got jobs in key government ministries that caused jealousy and envy among the native population, especially when the opposition leader married a North American African woman. 

Minister Farrakhan said, "No matter where I traveled throughout the world, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Communist, Socialist or Capitalist country, the black man and woman were on the bottom!" 

I say check out America: blacks fill the jails, go to Israel, Africans fill the jails. Go to Brazil, a black woman politician was recently assassinated fighting for African Brazilian human rights. 

Oakland Poet Paradise Jah Love's poem is a classic, "They Love Everything About Me But Me!" 

They can call each other nigga around the world in hip hop culture but still hate niggas. And for sure, niggas still hate niggas, yet denounce the N word even though it is a billion dollar word we should capitalize on instead protest its usage. If we had a billion dollar word, wouldn't it be common sense for us to take advantage of it instead of protesting? 

With Black Panther, we have a billion dollar film, whether we got pimped as per usual, or totally agree with it or not,but shouldn't we want to examine how we as Africans and North American Africans can benefit from its success, even if we don't like it, including the fact that the only  North American Africans in the film were villains, a black man and woman, despite the overwhelming historical fact that Africans sold us to the Europeans and both Africans and Europeans enjoyed 400 years of surplus capital from the slave trade, minus the cost of human labor.  Thus, North American Africans have nothing to feel guilty about. For sure, we resisted and protested every day of our 400 year trauma, grief and genocide. See Negro Slave Revolts by Melville Herskovitts. See the Historical Channel's Slave Catchers and Resisters, the best documentary of African resistance to the American Slave System (Ed Howard term).

A segment of North American Africans identify with the socalled villain Killmonger, especially when he said before his death at the hands of the Wakandan's, "My ancestors are those who jumped off the slave ships rather than be victims of the eternal slave system in the Americas."
The Qur'an says, "Persecution is worse than slaughter." So many of us conscious North Americans departed the cinemas shouting Killmonger for Life!" Yes, no matter a majority of Africans, North American Africans and Africans in the Diaspora saluted the mythical kingdom of Wakanda in their romantic notion of the African kings and queens who benefited in their enslavement, just as the low information vibration celebrate the Obamas even though they were globalists and imperialists in black face, no different from the plethora black face neo-colonial African leaders on the continent and throughout the Pan African Diaspora.

Rainbow flag Racism and White Supremacy

Long ago,  the LBGT community informed me the rainbow flag does not represent them, that it is but another symbol of racism and white supremacy. Joe Hawkine s, founder of the Oakland LGBT Center has partnered with our forthcoming Teach-In and Testimonial: Racism and White Supremacy in the Bay Area. FYI, a brother traveled to Peru and told me the LGBT was stolen from Peru. White supremacists, no matter what gender, religion or political persuasion are still white supremacists and we suspect they, in the words of Mao, will never put down their butcher knives and turn into Buddha heads, unless they agree to go into long term recovery to address their severe condition of addiction to white supremacy.

As a straight man, after over a half century in the Black Arts Movement and the BAM coast to coast, I have "had no choice but to appreciate the genius and extraordinarily talent of artists beyond the socially acceptable heterosexual gender. Gay brothers have portrayed my son who was a straight man. Lesbian women have portrayed straight women in my dramas. Alas, if you are an actor, for sure, you must adapt, understand all personas in the human and sexual spectrum. Alas, as a writer, I must comprehend and appreciate the human dilemma no matter what sexual orientation. If I can't, it would be wise for me to give up the art of writing!

Yes, Dr. Nathan Hare was/is too black for the pseudo black conscious intellectuals in perpetual crisis (see Harold Cruse, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual) and academic negroes, including the Kemetic, Pan African Youtube scholars of today that he says live in the Kingdom of Afrikanna or shall we say Wakanda, the mythical kingdom of make believe, best described Sociologist Dr. E. Franklin Frazier in his classic Black Bourgeoisie. 

but especially those tenured niggas who obtained neo-colonial elite jobs for life from their vampiric sucking of his black intellectual and edrevolutionary blood. Dr. Nathan Hare shares the honored tradition of intellectual resistance fighters from David Walker, Henry Highland Garnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, et al, including women like Harriett Tubman, 

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Marvin X and his Master Teacher, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black and Ethnic Studies. He holds PhDs in Sociology and Clinical Psychology, founder of Black Scholar Magazine. Black academia, i.e., Howard University, and white academia, San Francisco State University, kicked him out because of his unapologetic Black revolutionary consciousness. He and his wife, Julia, were a formidable couple who preached Black Power/Black Love. A London, England newspaper called Julia the female Malcolm X! See her speech at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Nation, Youtube. See below Dr. Nathan Hare's Love Song to Julia: "She Stood By Me" that appeared in The Movement Newspaper, published by Marvin X. Nathan is Senior Writer. 

After spending 45 minutes stalled in traffic before we got to the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll gate and another 20 or 30 minutes at the light before the bridge, (an effort we pray never to repeat, which may mean we will never drive a car to San Francisco) we made it to San Francisco to the Russian Hill apartment building Drs. Julia and Nathan Hare have occupied since 1973. Only rent control saves them from the gentrified high rent prices. As I entered, our beloved African Queen Dr. Julia Hare was being taken from the living room to the bedroom. Apparently she had fallen asleep. Alzheimers has taken its toll on her but she came back from hospice a few years ago and has been under the tender loving care of her husband of sixty plus years. Many of us can't stay married sixty days!

This afternoon Dr. Nathan Hare celebrated his 85th B day early at his home with friends and relatives  who discovered him through DNA. Two relatives flew into San Francisco from Chicago and Florida. He was happy and honored his DNA relatives came to town. He said to me that other blood relatives never come or call! Such is the state of the loving black family. 

 

photo Johnnie Burrell

As you see in the pic above, women were the majority in attendance, but most were women of power and authority. One said she was the only Black on her block of Divisadero Street. A life long San Francisco resident, in her retirement as an educator, she has traveled the world. She was present at my 2004 SF Tenderloin Black Radical Book Fair and wanted to know when I was going to do another. I told her it takes grant funds but I'm not in the begging mood these days. 

Besides her, there were several San Francisco "Negroes" present. My own San Francisco days go back to 1964 when I enrolled at San Francisco State Collegey, now University, and even before, 1963, when I was a researcher at UC Berkeley's School of Criminology under the famed Chicago Sociologist Dean Lohman. I was still enrolled at Oakland's Merritt College, along with my comrades Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and a host of other Black Nationalists under the influence of the African American Association, headed by Attorney Donald Warden, aka, Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour, including the Los Angeles representative of the AAA, Ron Karenga, who, I was informed, got the Kwanza from Oakland's AAA, that also inspired the Black Panther Party and the West Coast or Northern California Black Arts Movement.

One was a low income housing advocate  who is part of a non-profit that has 35 buildings in San Francisco with subsidized housing available now. Another sister was a retired SF Police Officer (and she let me know that when people see her with her natural, they know what's she's about), but more importantly, she informed me she is in a group of women with disabilities who lost their homes after working to achieve the American dream of home ownership. She said many of her comrades are homeless and living on the street after not being able to maintain home ownership. Furthermore, she is a descendant of the first North American African who owned a barber shop in San Francisco and was the first Black bail bondsman in California. She wants to know why there is no historical monument or any mention to her ancestor. She said former Mayor Willie Brown could help her but hasn't. I told her to contact Mayor Willie Brown's best friend, Bentley  driving Charlie Walker, de facto Mayor of Hunters Point. 

Nothing happens in Hunters Point that Charlie doesn't know about. When youth are killed by each other or the police, families come to Charlie Walker for burial expenses. He once told me, "Marvin, I will help my people but these young brothers can't come in my house with pants hanging off their behinds. I have extra belts for them!"

Food was catered and there was so much left over, I took home enough for Easter dinner, including fried chicken, baked chicken, turkey, dressing, greens, Mac and cheese, cheesecake, banana pudding, peach cobbler.