blame it on marvin x

BLAME IT ON MARVIN X!!!

Have you seen it?

When is the last time you’ve walked downtown

Can’t believe what they’ve done

But, i know this, for sure

Gwon. Go ahead.

Hope the streets don’t call me out on this

But, i BLAME Marvin X!

He started it!

He and Immamu

The great Baraka

Elombe, Kwame, Maya, Abubadika, Ed Bullins, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure’

Bobby, Huey, Emory, Karenga, COBRA in Chi-town, Ishmael...

Yebo! They should all be held responsible!

Damn right, i blame Marvin X and ‘nem

For being the main instigators that has brought the world

More than 50 years

Five loooong decades-plus

Of terrifying White terrorists, including Reagan

While shaking up liberals

The nerve of him, the never of them

Waking up “Negroes”

When they’re trying to keep sleeping

Don’t know bout ya

But, i still blame Marvin X and ‘nem

Not just these miserable social conditions

Of vicious European and American global imperialist monopoly capitalist white terrorism

For causing all this

Particular unruly and unauthorized behavior

Firing up folks

Coast to coast

From the Atlantic to the Gulf to the Great Lakes to the Pacific and beyond

To the continent and around our diaspora

Especially among these brave youngsters

Who have no idea

What they’re up against

Or, how to be scared!

Ya can say what ya want

But, i’m calling him out

The truth is Marvin X and ‘nem are to blame.

He has to be completely out of his mind

For outrageously envisioning a safe, secure, valued CommUNITY of

Self-Determined African people with homes, banks, stores, theaters, cafes, galleries, vendors

And, no poo-poo. Ooops, typo. i meant no po-po

Calling it the “Black Arts Movement taking care of Our Business District”

In the Spirit of our Kemetic-like destroyed Greenwood-Archer-Pine “GAP” area in Tulsa, Never

In the center of Indigenous OHLONE-land

Renamed “oakland” by the European and American killer and raper

Raiders and 49’er gold diggers

Who else ya gonna blame, but Marvin X and ‘nem?

For confronting the City officials

To first recognize this Black Arts Movement District

Then demanding they put up some street signs and posters

To loudly declaring our sacred Red, Black and Green colors of Liberation!

So, it is, indeed, Marvin X and ‘nem

Who WE have to blame

Cause he has now taken the damn thang

To an even higher level

Without any prior notification

Or, “official” Invitation

Have you seen this outburst?

Witnessed all this dangerous art?

On every block! Every street! Even in some alleys.

And, to my amazement…

Not one broken window.

Go ahead

Let’s blame Marvin X and ‘nem

There they go again inspiring so many creative Spirits

And, Bold, Brave Amazing Souls

Who seem to have been set Free

And, given this precious Sacred Space

While confronting the deadly military armor, tear gas, hidden cameras, threats of arrests and jailings

And, drive-by shootings and murder

From Euro-American “white” military-trained terrorists

Along with this deadly virus from who knows where (at the moment)

i’m for blaming Marvin X and ‘nem

For issuing this Call to Create

With nothing to fight with

But their weapons of Warriors’ vigor

Unfiltered imagination and unabashed creativity

Nothing but pray cans, paint brushes, magic markers, sharpies

Plywood, concrete and asphalt

Or, the walls of the J.P. Morgan Chase bank robbers and their ilk

These newer versions of the Splash Sis-Stars and Brothers

With profound messaging

Representing the real World Champions GIANTS WE all be

Yebo. This dude, Baba Marvin X

Always stirring Up Trouble!

Among the Blacks! The Browns! The Yellows! The Reds!

Lighting matches with words

That have sparked the creation of these new and old Black and Beautiful images

Of Truth and Black Genius!

Fully expressing our global Black experience, echoing Baba ImHotep Byrd!

Shouting and Exercising Our Mighty and Unstoppable Black Power!

And, futuristic Black Life!

Yebo, ya damn right it’s his fault

So, please join and help me

In putting the blame right where it belongs

And, while WE are at it

Sharing our utmost Gratitude to...

Baba Marvin X!

And, his many Black Artist

And, especially MOVEMENT-building co-horts

Past, present and after he, and WE

Are Long Gone!

Ase`. Ase`. Ase’-O!

by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at

June 2020

comment by marvin x

ache', im humbled by yr praise poem. why u put me on front street lol i got enough haters wt daggers. one told me the other day to watch my step.

peace n love jahahara

mx