The BSU Founders of the 1968 student strike at San Francisco State University have asked Marvin X to consider returning to writing The Untold Story of the Black Students and Third World Strike at SFSU. The BSU Strike founders released Marvin a few months ago but on Thanksgiving he got a call from their spokesperson, Bernard Stringer, asking him to resume writing their critical history of the American student revolution. San Francisco State University student strike was the longest in American academic history. It led to the first Black Studies and Ethnic Studies Department on the campus of a major university and college in America. Dr. Nathan Hare was the first chair and coined the terms black and ethnic studies. His retention was a source of contention in the strike.
The consensus is Marvin X is the Chosen One for this project because he was a member of the SFSU Negro Students Association that morphed into the Black Students Union. Marvin X is considered one of the visionary students that laid the ground for the BSU and Black and Ethnic Studies. Marvin has a degree of objectivity since he was underground in Harlem, NY, 1968, participating in the birth of the Black Arts Movement. In 1969, he was fighting to teach at Fresno State University but banned from stepping onto the campus on orders of Gov. Ronald Reagan, who also had Angela Davis removed from UCLA the same time. Gov. Reagan apparently feared Angela's Black Communism and Marvin's Black Islam!
BSU Strike Founders are confronted with a most difficult problem in assigning Marvin X to write their history: No one has been able to control his pen. Often, he is unable to control his pen. Attorney John Burris, whose career began with the Melvin Black Human Rights Conference, 1979, produced by Marvin X at the Oakland Auditorium, says, "Marvin X says some wild things in his books!"
He informed BSU Strike leaders he will not have anyone looking over his shoulder as he writes. The Founders are locked in the central committee paradigm so if a memorandum of understanding can be agreed upon by all parties, we may be able to produce the product: a people's narrative of black revolutionary student struggle on white colleges and universities in America.
Marvin's vision is perhaps larger than the BSU Founders who are primarily concerned with a truthful narrative of their strike. Marvin's desire is to incorporate the student struggle with the Black Arts Movement and the Black Power or National Liberation Movement, with the focus on Black students struggle nationally and internationally. Although underground, Marvin X attended the student strike at Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Canada, 1968. He arrived in Mexico City a few months after the student massacre. Repression was so brutal that when the parents arrived at the University to check on their children, the parents disappeared.
While exiled in Mexico City, Marvin was among many young revolutionaries from throughout the Americas who were given refuge by Mexico. I appreciate Mexico for giving refuge to all of us young men and women (my wife B. Hall, aka Hasani, enjoyed exile with me), although mostly young men from Dominican Republic, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala.
El Muhajir means migrant, refugee, pilgrim traveler. There is no way I cannot appreciate the desperation of those refugees at the borders of America seeking entry. Why doesn't the American "fake media" show us the conditions from which the migrants flee? Show us the dirt floor huts, some with electricity, most without. Show us the people in villages washing dishes, bathing, urinating and drinking from steams and rivers. Show us the people who are forced into drug cartel gangs to survive, especially their families, especially police and military men.
And do not overstay your visa in Mexico. Don't get stopped by the policia, mucho problemas. Yo creo no! In contrast, most of the illegals in the USA are visa violators, not those who slipped across the border. Of course the supreme irony and contradiction is both Democrats and Republicans benefit from migrant neo slave labor.
In Mexico City my contact was revolutionary artist Elizabeth Catlett Mora, a Black Communist from Washington, DC., who married Mexican muralist Poncho Mora. Communist Betty Mora had a maid, and after I shared an apartment with sister Beverley, associate from the Lafayette Theatre, partner of a Venezuelan revolutionary artist, we also had a live-in maid for $30.00 per month US.
Academy of da Corner Lakeshore Oakland Ca
Today, Sunday, 11/25/18, a white man walked by Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland, and said proudly and loudly, "I'm a proud racist, yes, I'm a white nationalist!" Marvin X replied, "I ain't mad at you, I'm a proud black nationalist!" Whites standing near his book stand were aghast! An oriental woman came over to say to the poet, "Did I hear what I think I heard him say?" Marvin said, "Yes. And I appreciate his honesty! Tell me what you are rather than be phony." We should be grateful President Trump acknowledged he is a white nationalist. I want the white man to enjoy the last days of his whiteness then report to Gitmo for long term recovery and reeducation, though the Big Book of AA speaks of those who are constitutionally unable to recover from addictions, and I add white supremacy as the most cunning and vile addiction in the modern world.
Marvin X Fan Club, Berkeley Flea Market
photo Kamau Amen Ra (RIP)
Marvin X at Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland
photo Adam Turner
True, white supremacists turned Africans and other colonized peoples into Europeans in black, brown and yellow faces. Dr. Hare calls us Black Anglo Saxons. Fanon wrote Black Skins, White Masks. In Mexico they say, "Coffee con leche!" In the Caribbean they say, "Black mon, white heart!" A few days ago on Lakeshore at the Academy, a young man said, "The black man is a white man dipped in chocolate!"
So let the white man stay white and let me stay black. I'm not trying to be white. To paraphrase Sly Stone, I thank God for lettin' me be myself again! Yes, after 400 years! My family is at least four generations from being niggas in consciousness. I am so thankful.
Reception in Harlem, New York for Marvin X at the home of Rashidah Ismaili. Marvin X was in New York to participate in memorial services for Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez at New York University, 2014
Believe it or not, I am not against interracial marriage or dating. I think every black person who desire a white person should fulfill their heart's desire, rather than be with a black person only to abuse them for not being of their desire for a white mate in black face. Don't destroy a black person because they are not white. Get with a real white man or woman so that you can be truly happy.
Marvin often recalls what Martin Luther King, Jr., said in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, "I'd rather be with the KKK than phony white liberals...." Did not a poll find that a high percentage of Millennials reveal they hold similar racist views except on sexual matters? "We hate niggers but we love their good black pussy and dicks!" Bay Area poet Paradise Jah Love has a classic poem They Love Everything About You but You!"
Marvin X told the oriental woman, "While teaching English at the University of Nevada, Reno, 1979, I was interviewed by a reporter from the Reno Gazette who informed me from the outset he was a Red Neck. I didn't give a damn, hell, I'm a Black Neck! But I felt sorry for my big, tall white student who didn't know the difference between to, too and two!"
Marvin X on Tour
Now booking coast to coast
Now booking coast to coast
Marvin X reading at University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference, 2015
photo Burrell Sunrise
photo Burrell Sunrise
December 4
San Francisco State University, Davey D's Hip Hop Class, 4pm
December 5
Reading at the Beat Museum, with other anti-capitalist poets from anthology by same name, Columbus and Broadway, North Beach, San Francisco
December 15
Reading from Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X, Charles Wright Museum, Detroit, Michigan
Saturday, 2-4pm.
January 2019
Brothers Network brings Marvin X to Philly for reading and book signing. Musical genius Elliott Bey will
provide sounds to accompany his beloved Master Teacher.
TBA
February 2019
BAMFEST Oakland, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga Producer
Marvin X, BAM Co-founder
Senior Consultant
In Concert: Marvin X reading from his dramatic works
TBA
Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam
Woman on Cell Phone
Fictional interview with President Obama
Driving Miss Libby
Parable of a Real Woman
Parable of the Heart
Parable of Black Man and Block Man
Parable of the Parrot
Parable of the Rat
Parable of Joy and Happiness
Note: Marvin X will exhibit his archives as a founding member of the National Black Arts Movement, the most
radical literary and artistic movement in American history.
Late 2019
Austin, Texas
Marvin X reading, accompanied by the Sun Ra Arkestra on the 400th Anniversary of Africans arriving in the Americas as captured Africans in the American Slave System (Ed Howard term, Oakland).
Now booking for lecture/dramatic readings coast to coast at colleges, conferences, festivals, workshops
Contact Marvin X:
send letter of invitation to:
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
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