#3 Off the Record, the political column of Marvin X

#3 Off the Record, the political column of Marvin X

Did not Iran through General Soleimani support the American defeat of Isis in Iraq? Did not his militias fight along side the Americans to halt ISIS as it marched to the gates of Bagdad? Did not the militias directed by General Soleimani join with the Americans when the weak-kneed Iraqi army was on the verge of defeat? How then can the Americans slaughter the General in broad daylight?

We do not need Middle Eastern historiography to inform us of American duplicity. Aboriginal American peoples noted the European Americans spoke with forked tongues! They sign agreements, then renege on them, thus their word means nothing, no matter in civilized conversation word is bond and bond is life and I will give my life before my word shall fail! 

Under President Obama, the US signed a deal with Iran and the Europeans that meant nothing to President Donald Trump and his white nationalists. Let's be clear, we are not opposed to white people who desire to remain white, to revel in their mythological white supremacy that is doomed to abject failure in the multi-cultural world of today and tomorrow. We do not wish whites to become black, we only want them to not think they can dominate and oppress blacks and other non-whites in the name of capitalism, wage slavery and free trade. Can they ever imagine fair trade? They seek such from the Chinese but what about fair trade in the ghetto? And fair trade in the ghetto has nothing to do with global fair trade Donald Trump is seeking. How can there be fair trade with China when half the corporations in China are in co-ownership with American corporations? 

Alas, the tariffs paid by Americans for goods imported from China benefit American corporations in league with Chinese capitalist/communist pigs. Let us not mention Black American athletes who are so integrated with Chinese corporations that they support the slaughter of freedom rights fighters in Honk Kong and say nothing about the 20 million Asian Muslims in Chinese concentration camps.

Need we reflect on African history and those royal kings and queens who benefited from the triangular trade, yes, those African royal families and politicians who still enjoy the surplus capital from 400 years of chattel slavery. Surely you know in every trade there is a buyer and a seller!

Even today, there are Africans and North American Africans who will buy us and sell us. I was riding in a taxi in Newark, New Jersey with a Haitian driver who said to me, "Broder, my African broders sold us once and it looks like they want to sell us again!" Alas, one of my Pan African Student Union brothers at my alma mater,  San Francisco State University, traveled to Africa only to come home totally disillusioned, he discovered anyone could be bought or sold in in Africa for $35.00. So much for his Pan African, Kemetic education. 

The Father of Black Studies, Dr. Nathan Hare, says the mission of black studies morphed into Africana Studies, Diaspora Studies, anything but the resurrection of the black man in America, and woman! Dr. Hare notes, "While we study the bones of King Tut, the bones of North American Africans languish in the strange fruit of popular trees, swamps, rivers, lakes of the dirty south!" Where is the forensic evidence of our torture and trauma in the dirty south? Why do we think the bones of King Tut are more glorious than the bones of Toby?

We so ignut we sing the Blues but don't have a clue of the source of the Blues. Mali musician Ali Farka, who played with BB King and the Rolling Stones, said, "Blues? WTF? My people have been playing the music you call Blues for ten thousand years!"

I wish somebody would help me, hep me!

--Marvin X

1/4/20

Sun Reporter Newspaper, San Francisco

Column #3