Congresswoman Barbara Lee will share remarks at the Dr Cornel West and Marvin X in Conversation at Geoffrey's Inner Circle December 7 at

Congresswoman Barbara Lee will share opening remarks at the Dr Cornel West and Marvin X in Conversation at Geoffrey's Inner Circle December 7, 6PM. Her office is a co-sponsor of the event.

I Miss My Real Niggas

I ride through the streets

Looking for my real niggas

Where you at real niggas

Huey Bobby Eldridge

Alonzo Batin

Ali Sheriff Bey

I cannot find you in Acorn

Fillmore

Where are you

Why you not at home

Why do I drive the streets alone

You are not in the Tenderloin

On Jones Ellis McAllister

Turk 

Not in Bodecker Park

6th Street where I lived

Every alley doorway

Cardboard box house

Cracked out with Crack ho

Sucking on me and pipe

We recited Al Fatihah

Sucking and fucking

Where are you JB

We tried to save you

But TL was your lover

Hindu Hilton your love bed

Funky room incense

Crack smoke drowned the incense

Crack smoke made flies

Crawl on the floor

Cracked out like you

Miss you JB

Huey in the Acorn projects

Eldridge too

We smoked

Revolution gone

In smoke

Outsmarted ourselves

My daddy said

I ride looking

No revolutionaries I see

Streets dark empty

Men in hoodies command corners.

No KKK needed

KKK killed for hatred.

We kill for nothing

Where are you Huey

Lil Bobby Eldridge

Sam Napier

Kiilu

Dessy X

Have you been by her street

Rashida Muhammad off 20th/

Tom Berkley Way

Where are you Dessy X

I want to hold your hand

As you killed that white man who raped you in dirty south

Oakland know you as midwife

Rashida Muhammad

Don't know Killer Dessy X

Lover of Marvin X 

Where are you tonight

Streets of Oakland need you

Can't find your street

I drive on deep east

Streets bleak

Where are you Huey Bobby Eldridge

Kathleen Erika Tarika Elaine

The Lupen sit on corners

Want answers solutions programs

In our first meeting Huey said

Jackmon

What is your program?

Who has program for International Blvd?

Child ho's tricking with policemen

Homeless

Garbage tents every block

Wretched of the earth crowd liquor stores

Medication for the night

Kill pain trauma grief

Jesus saves

Jesus saves

Jesus and liquor stores

I ride I ride

No bothers at home

Sisters gone too

What shall I do?

--Marvin X

11/8/19

Parable of the man hated

His family wondered why he spent all his lifetime trying to save people who hated him for trying to save them. They wanted him to come be with his family sometimes, but he told his family they hated him more than the people he was trying to save. His family denied they hated him but he knew they did not want to hear any of his radical thoughts. They wanted him to sing Silent Night when he came around. Don't criticize them for drowning in their negrocities, conspicuous consumption, the world of make believe!
--MARVIN X

Yo soy Mo Negro El

Yo soy Mo Negro
General Tarik Jabaltarik
Crossed into Spain
Across the rock
Jabals's rock
Gibraltar
Stepping stone
Africa wake up savage Europeans
Dark Ages gone now
Moors arrive
Timbuktu University
Mo's
Africa studies alive
University of Sankore
Mali
Scholars of myriad genres
Philosophy
Logic
Astronomy
Mythology
Chemistry
Ethics
Politics
Europeans caving
Dog best friend
Syphilis from woman dog
Woman dog missing.
Reward for dog!
White man philosophy.
Othello tragic Moor
Moor blackness
Europeans walk in the light!
Take a bath funky savage!
This is a tooth brush!
This is a camisa shirt
Shatika
These pants
Limon
Musiq
Guitar
Latuka lettuce
Umm Mama
Abu father
Ukhi sister
Akhi brother.....
Shatain devil!
Oh Europeans
White yet black
Yr God is Black
Saviour Jesus
Isis and child Black!
Virgin Mary Black
Hindu Khrishna
Blue Black
Hail Khrishna
Blue Black God!

Spain
711
1492
Columbus destroyed Moorish Spain
Discovered Moorish America!
I was here
Before Ghana Mali Shonghy
Empires
I was here
Africans in the Americas
Vera Cruz
Merida
Yanga came
Yanga so bad
Spanish gave him town
San Lorenzos de Los Negroes
Vera Cruz
See my Olmec lips nose
I'm Joe Louis in Chetumal
Joe Louis in Alcapulco! Oxaca, Guatemala, Honduras, Choco Columbia,
Panama.

I discovered you! You damn sure didn't discovere me.
Threw me out of Moorish Spain
Shit ain't been the same!
--Marvin X

Endgame of Homelessness

Imagine, the billions spent to solve the homeless problem that continues to festor like a sore. Is the solution the shelter, transitional housing, tiny houses, bunk beds for the homeless techies, what?

Without any doubt, many if not most of the homeless suffer the dual diagnosis of drug abuse and
mental illness. I have been among them, sleeping in cardboard boxes, allies, doorways, East Bay Terminal, BART trains and stations. Yes, I was drug addicted and mentally ill. I took myself to the mental hospital four times but they threw me out, said there was nothing wrong with me except drugs. They said my presence was the waste of a bed the tax payers money of Alameda County. They threw out of the nut house! (See my docudrama One Day in the Life).

But let's get to the final solution. The correct first thing a drug addict needs is a place to rest. The first thing the mentally ill person needs is a place to rest. Rather than force them into a shelter, or mental health facility, or a transitional housing situation, take them to the end game: give them a life estate to a
tiny house, dog house, SRO room with the life estate, with said property under a land trust so their life estate is no subject to gentrification and eminent domain.
Their life estate cannot be sold rented, subleased or transferred but upon their demise said property shall revert to the landtrust.

Said owner of the life estate shall not be forced to seek treatment for their addiction and/or mental illness until ready. The Harm Reduction Model shall by employed, but not said persons shall not be subjected to any search of their body and property to enter their life estate abode. When they are ready for case management and drug recovery, such services shall be available.

To conclude, I repeat, the life estate is the final solution rather than the myriad of solutions costing billions of dollars.
--MARVIN X
Community Planner
Co-founder, National Black Arts Movement, Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District
11/12/19

Have you ever

Have you ever shot
A nigga's brains out
with the power of yr mind
Splattered his brains on sidewalk
with power of yr thoughts
No need kill nigga with guns
Mind power enuf
Fidel Castro said
The weapon of today is
Consciousness
Not guns
Kill with beauty and truth
Beauty and truth
Set you free of
Ugliness lies
Shootllp nigga's eyes out with beauty truth
His ugly ass fall dead
He dead before yr thoughts hit his fake ass mind
Full of make believe
Fake news
Fake politricks
Fake religion
Fake history
Fake women
Addicted to world of make believe
Ungrateful bastard children
Addicted to same world of
Nothingness dread
Cell phone addicts
Worse than Crack heads of old
Running through ghetto streets
Fist balled with crack
At least Crack heads stopped for cars
Cell phone addicts no stop
Keep walking talk loud saying nothing
James Brown said
Thank you God Father
Two thousand pounds of steel and plastic coming at cell phone addicts
Keep walking talking
Talking loud saying nothing
Bsm Bam Bam!
Steel and plastic hit they stupid asses
Talking loud saying nothing
Zombie driver hit zombie walker
When blind hit blind
Both fall into ditch together
So why kill nigga
Even with yr mind
Nigga already dead
Why kill dead fly
Already dead
Friend said ok
Let dead bury dead
Jesus said
Al Qur'an say
Dead in this life
Dead in hereafter
Al Qur'an say
It matters not
Whether you warn them
Or warn them not
They shall not believe.
Allah has sealed their hearts
Their hearing
Deaf dumb blind
Qur'an say
If theyppp flee from darkness into light
They would find many places of escape and abundant resources. Yet they linger
In Jerusalem til' the fire
Consumes them
They are fuel for the fire
Men women and stones
Al Qur'an say
If your wives chicken
Wealth you acquire
Dearer to you than Allah
Wait til His command comes to pass
And He guides not the unjust!
--Marvin X, El Muhajir
11/2/29