Saturday, October 31, 2020
Friday, October 30, 2020
The Monkey Mind Media and Interlocking Directorates
The Monkey Mind Media and Interlocking Directorates
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
I love books
Lewis Michaux inside his African National Memorial Book Store,Harlem NY
I love books. I spent my youth and young adult years reading books on every subject. When I got to Harlem I spent my money on books, clothes and taxis. But books mattered to me the most. Now I devoured the Richardson's Marcus Garvey Books in San Francisco. Furthermore, Julian Richardson and his wife Raye mentored Bay Area Black radicals and printed our publications such as Black Dialogue Magazine, Journal of Black Poetry and our chapbooks of poetry as well as reprinting the works of Marcus Garvey and the classic by George M James Stolen Legacy. But once I hit Harlem NY, I was overwhelmed with Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Book Store. Of course I also fell in love at the Mosque#7 bookstore operated by Larry X Prescott, aka Akhbar Muhammad.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
They Say you from 'Orleans
photo Gene Hazzard
They Say You From 'Orleans
They say are you from 'Oleans
I say no no dirty south here
They say chit'lin's
I say no
No chit'lin circuit on my tour
Nigga laugh out this world
No chit'lin circuit on my tour
Cali negro true n true
mama born in central valley
maternal people valley pioneers
cotton pickers from Arkansas Oklahoma
farmers don't you hear
Came to central valley
busloads to pick cotton
more cotton in valley than mississippi
don't you know
tent cities in fresno
came up cant you see
tent city ain't always
when you don't want to be
families in tent cities
lovers for life
rise up from tents
soon husband wife
children go to school
play pro ball don't you know
strong country boys
represent the pro
Me
Central Cali nigga
Oaktown too
Central Cali nigga
city country boy through n through
Edison High basketball team
Oaktown too
Prescott Lowell Jr. High
7th Street nigga
true n true
Played basketball New Century Defermery Park
Bill Russell Pointer brothers, Jim Hadnot, Paul Silus, Aiken brothers too
Made Merritt College team
Mack niggas too tall fa me
Jim Toliver could dunk
guard
dunk like he 6'3''
Toliver hardly 5'6"
me 5'6" too
Toliver
jumped high into a tree
Toliver A.C Scott guards we
Lowell Jr. High
Joe Ellis on team
Warrior's Joe Ellis
what a dream what a dream
I won free throw contest
9 out of 10
pretty good ugh
9 of 10 free throw line
got a trophy for ma win
New Century nigga don't sin
Back to broder man
ain't no 'Orleans nigga
ain't from Lake Charles
ain't from Monroe LA like Huey Newton
My podna from Merritt
he like pig shootin'
Ain't from Grambling
Jackson State
Mississippi
Ain't from Texas Southern
down street from daughter's house
Wrote book bout Eldridge Cleaver
three weeks for My Friend the Devil
Funniest book of 2009
Jimmy Garett said
Didn't need no footnotes didn't tell no lies
People said Marvin
if Cleaver the devil
who are you
People said Marvin if Cleaver the devil
who are you
If you can't figure it out
i might be the devil too!
Dress like you from 'Orleans boy
where you from
be true to me
I might be from the river
Might be from the deep sea
Might be from the forest
might be from the woods
might be from the valley
might be from the hood
Don't matter where I'm from
valley or the sea
I'm a man
M.A.N
Main
Hustler
ain't no pimp
don't wait for mine
hustle sea to sea
See me in the mornin
'Orleans Bourbon Street
might want etouffee for breakfest
bananas french toast
what about eggs n rice
cali nigga you know
daddy from kentucky
rice country
mama central valley
no grits don't ya know
we ate rice breakfast lunch dinner
friends called me Moto
Chinese man don't you know
never saw a nigger eat rice
day and night
no grits
rice butter sugar n cream
daddy kentucky nigger
blue grass n white rice
nothin nice
Mama central valley girl
picked cotton cut grapes
her world
grandfather Murrill
99 when he died
1941
Fresno Bee Newspaper
gave him pride
Bee said respected negro
black and whites alike
What manner of man
Ephraim Murrill
Great grandfather
in his stride
North Carolina to Arkansas to Cali
pioneer was he not
I am his seed
DNA all the way
did not know him
but he knew me everyday
cotton grape fields
Ephraim general of the land
yes I'm his seed
great son of this man.
I stand on his shoulders
my grandpa too
no matter we rescued him drunk El Gato Negro
Grandpa still true.
Was it pain of cotton grape fields made him drink gamble all night
We sat outside El Gato Negro while Uncle Stan got grandpa from gambling drunk fight
We all lucky to be alive
Thank God for today
None of us would be here
if devil had his way.
Thank God he is Mighty
Thank God he is True
Thank God he protects fools and children
like me and you!
--Marvin X
10/21/20
Saturday, October 17, 2020
El Muhajir, The Migrant
El Muhajir/The Migrant
Marvin X at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner
We planned to leave for years
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Monday, October 12, 2020
I Am Marcus Garvey, a monologue by Marvin X
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018
I Am Marcus Garvey
I Am Marcus Garvey, A Monologue by Marvin XThe Most Honorable Marcus GarveyPoet, Playwright Marvin Xphoto Kamau Amen Ra (RIP)I am Marcus Garvey, Jamaican born African man. The winds of Jamaica blew my soul, body
spirit far and wide. I was a printer then took off to see the world, to unravel the riddles of the
Black man, African man, trapped deep down in the belly of the beast called colonialism.
I traveled the Americas, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras. I saw the suffering workers in these
lands, studied their condition and determined to free them. I went to England where I met Duse
Muhammad Ali, the Pan African who taught me One God, One Aim, One Destiny, Africa for the
Africans, those at home and those abroad. I wrote in Ali’s Oriental Times and Review, so did
Booker T. I wanted to meet Booker T so I went to the USA but Booker T. died before I could
meet him. I was heartbroken not to meet the man who wrote Up From Slavery, who founded
Tuskegee, who said do for self, you can accomplish what you will.I wanted to know what happened to the Black man’s land, how did it become the pleasure
of Europeans, the richest continent in the world. I wanted to make the Black man independent
standing tall in his own land, not under the boot of Europeans. Africa for the Africans, those at
home and those abroad.
Where is our flag? In my disgust at the white man’s song “Everybody
got a flag cept a coon,” God blessed me with the Red, Black and Green, Red for blood of one
hundred million, Black for all African people, Green for our Motherland. Fly the Red, Black and
Green, let the ancestors know you know them, honor and respect them, the living and yet unborn.
I am Marcus Garvey. Let our African legions march, let black nurses heal the wounds of our despair,
let the African poets sing songs of freedom, let the colonialists dred the sound of our valiant voices
singing in the winds of freedom, independence and joy.I am Marcus Garvey, let my newspaper The Negro World spread the truth of our Blackness,
African pride and glory. We shall spread the words of freedom throughout the Pan African world,
millions shall join the UNIA, United Negro Improvement Association, millions in the USA,
Caribbean, Europe and the Motherland.No matter those who oppose us, the winds of time shall oppose them in their wickedness,
sycophants of colonialism, yes, bootlickers who think they are smart but only outsmart themselves.
Their idea of freedom is yet slavery for independence is the dream of every true man and woman.
No man is free under the yoke of another. Yet some intellectual black fools hate the idea of true
freedom. They set traps for me at every turn, in league with the FBI and other agencies around the
world.The devil sent Negroes to sabotage my ships The Black Star Line. Black spies infiltrated our UNIA.
The FBI began with their spies in my midst, along with the jealous, envious Negroes who hated
Blackness. We call them Black men with white hearts. Somebody said these Negroes are white men
dipped in chocolate! In Spanish we call them coffee con leche!I am Marcus Garvey. What was the Harlem Renaissance without me? I published all the poets in my
newspaper. It was the spirit of Blackness that made the Renaissance possible, not white patronage
that made us exotic birds of paradise.I am Marcus Garvey. With the help of sell out Negroes, call ‘em niggas, the USA falsely charged me
with mail fraud and jailed me, then deported me. I passed away in London, never visiting Africa.
Yet today, the Red, Black and Green is the Universal African flag of liberation. Long live Black
Nationalism, long live Pan Africanism. One God, One Aim, One Destiny. Africa for Africans, those
at home and abroad. Up you mighty Race, you can accomplish what you will!Yes, look for me in the whirlwind, look for me in the storms, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes in
diverse places. Look for me in the eyes of our children who carry the torch of freedom in the morrow
of their bones!--Marvin X
10/7/18
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Marvin X Crazy Woman Blues
FYI, have you heard my Crazy Woman Blues?
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