James Copes and Marvin X, Organizers of Black Vendors at Lake Merritt, rap on DO 4 SELF

This interview was videoed by Ken Johnson of the Black Vendors Association, a project partially supported by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We also acknowledge the assistance of the Berkeley Juneteenth Foundation, the BAMBD or Black Arts Movement Business District, CDC and the City of Oakland, especially Council Members Nikki Bass and Carol Fife. 

FYI, on January 19, 2016, the BAMBD was established by the Oakland City Council and extends from the Lower Bottom of 14th Street to Lake Merritt. The BAMBD is part of the City of Oakland's Downtown Plan for the Next 25 to 50 Years, and it includes a North American African presence at Lake Merritt.

Marvin X, Co-Founder of the National Black Arts Movement and Mayor Libby Schaaf at Laney College on the 50th Anniversary Celebration of BAM at Laney College, 2015.

photo Jahahara Alkebulan Ma'at

Community Planner, Organizer Marvin X and Lynette McElhaney, President of the Oakland City Council.

Marvin X, Paul Cobb, Conway Jones, Jr., Margaret Gordon and numerous Black Artists were critical and persistent  in urging then President McElhaney to push through legislation to establish BAMBD, Oakland's Black Cultural District that includes Lake Merritt. See map above.

photo Adam Turner

During the month of Black August, the BAMBD presents BAMBDFEST, a celebration of Oakland's Black Cultural District, with major support from the California Arts Council. For information about this year's BAMBDFEST throughout the month of Black August, please go to www.bambdfest.com or www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

Stay tuned for Black Street, Official Magazine of the Black Vendors Association. Publisher/Editor Marvin X can be reached at jmarvinx@yahoo.com or 510-575-7148.

 

Oakland's Lake Merritt White Die Hards and Black Resistance

 

Marvin X, Director, Adama Mosley, Secretary, Ken Johnson, Videographer/photographer, editor, driver. Ken has made his limo available to the BVA for special events. Ken is a retired SF Muni bus driver but has been the videographer for Marvin X over 30 years. They are currently working on a documentary The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience. We are also doing a video documentary of Black street vendors at Lake Merritt and throughout Oakland. 

"When James Copes told me the urgent need to promote the Black vendor narrative to counter and negate the white supremacist Lake Merritt narrative, it was clear to me that a Black Vendor Magazine is urgently needed to tell our story and history of being denied a presence at Lake Merritt, as occurred when I grew up in West Oakland, 7th and Campbell.

We are supposed to accept the denial of a presence at Lake Merritt in 2021. WTF, the current residents and business persons adjacent the lake are of the same white racist personality as those who kept us from the lake in the 50s, though the current version of Oakland KKK frame their narrative in pseudo liberal linguistics while the truth is that after WWII, German Nazis arrived in Oakland, e.g. Kaiser, Bechtel, et al. Google the history of Nazis in Oakland and the political families who emerged from them. You shall be utterly shocked at the fascist history of Oakland.

Back to Lake Merritt

Oh, the Blacks are destroying the green, the water polluted with black garbage, their music too loud for white sensibility and civility, we can't take the smell of weed, bar-b-que and the drunken behavior of the Blacks from purchasing those distilled spirits of alcohol merchants. Thank God somebody snitched the other day that the black alcohol vendors were armed. What if they had gotten into another shootout as they did on their newfound holiday called Juneteenth! Can you believe the blacks didn't know they were freed from slavery until nearly two years later. What happened to their grapevine? Why didn't they beat their fuckin drums to let them know Lincoln freed their black asses. And they actually thought they were going to get 40 acres and a Gov. mule? WTF. Forty acres in a lot of land. Thank God they killed Lincoln an stopped that 40 acre shit.

But whenever white folks party at the lake, they party in full blown white supremacy culture, no matter left or right. Can you believe the lake residents have the same mentality as the pig who denied George Floyd the right to breathe as he begged and called his Mama. Do the Lake Merritt whites really want the black vendors out of sight forever and ever, no matter where they go, Pittsburg, Antioch, Stockton, Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, Hanford, Bakersfield, anywhere but Lakeshore. What right do the Blacks have to be at the lake, we pay taxes and vote with corrupt politicians to have the lake for us only. Why can't the blacks understand this. Why do they persist? WTF.

Yeah, they the same in West Oakland: white gentrifiers called police saying there was too much noise coming from the rehearsal  of the black church choir. WTF.  Church been there 50 years, whites got there yesterday, close to West Oakland BART so they can get to the financial district in San Francisco to rob and steal the world don't you know? And they come home from global pyramid schemes demanding the Blacks only sing Silent Night, so they can go to bed and dream of more wretched schemes like how to unite with the Chinese and spread germ warfare in the breeze. It's called the Big Payback, James Brown said. My brother told me his task in Vietnam was to paint poison on the trees. And you think what goes around don't come around? Better learn to speak Chinese.

You white haters of Blacks at the lake, you heartless, soulless capitalist swine, bloodsuckers of the poor, don't give a damn about the green or garbage in the lake. If you cared for Mother Nature, why is the earth on fire? If you cared about the rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, why is there an island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean three times the size of Texas? If you cared about the universe and multiverse, why is outta space filled with junk flying and floating everywhere? You should be banned from planet earth and outta space too because your record of destruction is clear: you fuck up everywhere. See Dr. E. Franklin Frazier’s little known classic Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World. Imagine as we experience the Covid 19 Pandemic, Frazier told us long ago the diseases of the white man were more lethal than his guns upon the native populations. Covid 19 is the Eugenicists dream, down from Margaret Sanger, Hitler, Rockefeller, Bill Gates mama and daddy who fused Eugenics and technology (IBM that morphed into Microsoft), emerging in the present era with Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci and the Hunan lab receiving Covid 19 virology, claiming it came from a bat, Globalist/Chinese People’s Revolutionary Army mythology. If you believe Covid 19 came from a bat, you also believe the two million Uyghur Muslims are happy in concentration camps as the Jews were under Hitler’s Nazism and Africans kidnapped into the American slave system, where 2.5 million languish today as Constitutional slaves under the 13th Amendment allowing involuntary servitude for crimes, the convenient way America reinstituted its full blown addiction to free labor as the backbone of capitalism.

And the Black presence at Lake Merritt is your despair? Go somewhere and comb your hair. Love your woman, have a baby, stop wearing women's clothes like you crazy. Bring the Taliban to Oakland, they'll make you stand up like a man. After all you sins against Blacks, you still continue your attacks, only because you can, because you pay politicians and police to carry out your despicable, diabolical plans under the pseudo guise of clean green, Holy Mother Earth, whom you curse. Then have the nerve to chant Green while you continue the theft and robbery of aboriginal lands and peoples in Africa, Asia and Latin America of their precious metals to further your dastardly satanic schemes. I say take your dog, yes, your best friend, this will insure your immediate end. For you and dog are one, made for each other, you are father, dog is son. Your woman is nowhere in this equation, you know the saying: woman and dog missing, reward for dog! Take your dog, you be praying Oh holy god on North winds, sky, return my dog so we can fly over heavens hills again, I miss my dog, without my dog I cannot win. Women are fine and we love them too, but without dog we men are not true. For we are dogs too. 

 

With its grant from the Silicon Valley Foundation, Marvin X and the BVA will give support to the Oakland Black Vendors Association, under the direction of James Copes. "Since I am a recluse (solitude is critical to my creative personality), I have no problem supporting Mr. Copes who is a people's person. He is more diplomatic than I, so let me plan and structure the vendors into a solid economic institution, maybe on the model of the Pullman Porters Union. We are aware of how the 30,000 mostly Latinx street vendors united to win passage of SB946, the State Law on Street Vending. We North American African street vendors can unite to do for self, to advocate for equity and social justice.

 

 

BVA Director Marvin X and Secretary Adama working in their mobile office

photo Ken Johnson

 

I know James and I are in accord on such matters, including providing basic educational and  business skills for entrepreneurs, especially brothers and sisters in the hood who are marginalized from achieving economic parity in the marketplace. Far too often we are not allowed employment as stop sign holders at the plethora of development sites in Oakland and across America for that matter." The Black Street Vendors Association can teach economic independence for brothers and sisters who may never occupy retail shop space. Although it is the vision of Mr. Copes, many vendors and myself that with unity we can acquire retail space as we advance. Again, look at the Latinx as a model, e.g., they start with a cart, then taco truck, then a market and restaurant. Elijah Muhammad said see what others do and emulate them whether they are white, brown or yellow. Don't sit around hating and being jealous of them, do what they do and come up as they do.

Don't they imitate you in all that you do, didn't they learn rap from you, jazz from you, blues, swagger from you, how to dress from you? Flip the script and learn from them to come up, yes, to the Upper Room of your Father's and Mother's house!" Sell Black, Buy Black, Die Black!

 

 

Marvin X says, "Black Vendors, are you ready to ride into the sunrise of do 4 self economics? Elijah Muhammad told you the day shall come when you shall not be wanted by your master, you shall be forced to do 4 self. That day has arrived. Do 4 self or die, or shall you cry to some god up in the sky? Did Bezos see god on his rocket ride? I have only one message for you: You are in God and God is in you. I'm through! Do 4 self or dodo. When you ready to do 4 self, even the white man will help you. This is true. Better ax somebody as they in the Big H, Houston, TX."

photo Ken Johnson

White supremacy continues at Oakland's Lake Merritt

Marvin X at his Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland

photo Adam Turner

"If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."

--Ishmael Reed, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

"Marvin X is Socrates teaching in the African hood!"

--Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University

Today the Oakland Parks and Rec Commission held a Zoom meeting that ended with the last agenda item: a discussion on Black Vendors at Lake Merritt. As usual white folks were against the presence of North American African vendors at Lake Merritt. Black vendors have been banned from vending on Lakeshore Ave. and Grand Ave. They are officially restricted to a block long strip on Embarcadero. Unofficial vendors still vend on Lakeshore during the week and on Grand Ave. weekends, although the OPD has been coming down on those vendors selling marijuana and alcohol, and playing loud music. On weekends parking is not allowed on Lakeshore or Grand Ave. on lakeside. The mostly white residents and businesses object to the presence of the official vendors under the Oakland Black Vendors Association, headed by James Copes, a longtime Oakland businessman and entrepreneur. Copes is a dedicated community activist and advocate of economic equity. Organizing the Lake Merritt Black Vendors is his attempt to teach entrepreneurship to people marginalized from the job market. He has tried diplomacy to make the white residents and business community realize they need to stop objecting to the Black presence at Lake Merritt. At today's Zoom meeting, a white person reminded the commissioners that in the not so recent Oakland history, Blacks were banned from Lake Merritt, as this writer remembers as a child growing up in West Oakland. 

White speakers, in their language of subterfuge and circumlocution, told tales of the Blacks destroying the green of the lake, the pounds of garbage being found in the lake and around the lake. How terrible this is to have Lake Merritt, the pride and joy of Oakland, turned into a Black commercial entity. Surely the Blacks can find other places to play their loud music, cook bar-b-que, smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, as if whites don't do the same at the numerous parks and recreational spaces they occupy throughout Oakland. 

No matter Blacks have been removed from vending on Lakeshore and the same is rapidly coming to Grand Ave.,  it was suggested the Oakland Black Vendors Association be limited to one day, though the final vote continues Black vending on Saturdays and Sundays until funds for this pilot project are depleted in November, just as the holiday season begins. Depending on the progress or regress of the germ warfare inflicted on America and the world to reset the geopolitical New World Order, we expect to see the official Black vendors at the lake, and most certainly the unofficial ones, especially the more economically desperate vendors who have the choice of selling or killing, let the pseudo liberal white residents and businesses decide. We suggest they retreat from their insistence on ultimately removing Black vendors from Lake Merritt. No matter what the residents proclaim in their pseudo desires for peace and quiet, while they sing Silent Night about the $700 billion US defense budget to make noise around the world as they bomb mostly poor non-white countries so they are made to suffer in silence the exploitation of lands for cheap labor and precious metals so they can talk on cell phones, as James Brown said, talking loud but saying nothing. 

The neighborhood whites decry the supposed black destruction of Lake Merritt but say nothing about Black neighborhoods suffering toxic air, water, food, resulting in toxic physical and mental health. The whites only desire and feel they deserve to come home from their robber tech jobs on wall street and banker pyramid schemes to a pristine lake devoid of the black menace so upsetting to their white state of minds, whether pseudo progressive or fascist conservative, and often as per behavior and actions upon Blacks and other non-whites, the ideological difference is minimal.

As per this discussion, two things are glaringly absent. Firstly, on January 19, 2016, the Oakland City Council passed a resolution establishing the Black Arts Movement Business District, along the 14th Street corridor from the lower bottom to Lake Merritt. So North American Africans have a City mandated presence at Lake Merritt, no matter what residents think along with their avaricious petit bourgeoisie capitalist swine businesspersons.  

And let me inform the ignorant Park and Rec Commissioners and the white supremacist residents of Lakeshore and Grand Ave., as per the request for a long term plan for the Oakland Black Vendors Association at Lake Merritt, the BAMBD that extends to Lake Merritt is part of the City of Oakland's Downtown Plan for the next 25 to 50 Years. Park and Rec Commissioners, is this plan long enough for you? Have you heard of the plan that only included Blacks when the final report was almost complete?

Secondly, we suggest the residents, businesspersons and commissioners, peruse SB946, the State Law on Street Vending that states vending must not be restricted from parks and lakes no matter community animus; that vendors are not to be cited and given excessive fines, nor shall their goods be confiscated; they shall not be asked for immigration papers, etc.

Additionally, before leaving office Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the establishment of Cultural Districts throughout California. For certified cultural districts, Gov. Jerry Brown suggested a moratorium on taxation. As per equity in the City of Oakland, we suggest a five year moratorium on North American African Vendors paying permit fees, County and City license fees, Franchise Tax Board fees and IRS taxation, yes, without representation.  

In closing, I call upon North American African vendors, in particular those associated with the Oakland Vendors Association, under the Honorable James Copes, to do what we used to chant at high school football games, when diehard racists under the progressive or conservative persona make their moves to block Black forward movement, we say in unity, "Push 'em back, way back, push 'em back way back." Mao used to say, "The reactionaries will never put down their butcher knives, they will never turn into Buddha heads!" In the words of Oakland's Black Panther Party, "Power to the People!"

--Marvin X

8/12/21

Co-Founder, National Black Arts Movement

Co-Founder, Black Arts Movement Business District, Oakland CA

Co-Founder, Black Vendors Association working in association with James Copes, Founder of OBVA

Publisher/Editor, Black Bird Press News and Review

Publisher/Editor, Black Street, a publication of the Black Vendors Association

Marvin X was awarded a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to organize the Black Vendors Association. He supports James Copes and his Oakland Black Vendors Association. 

From the archives: Black Vendors at Lake Merritt, by Clifford L. Williams, Oakland Post Newspaper

 

Black Vendor Group Flourishes on Oakland’s Lake Merritt

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 August 13, 2020

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 Clifford L Williams

Entrepreneur James Copes and Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas discussing the Lake Merritt Black Vendors Group activities. Photo by Jordan Long Copes.

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What started out to be a protest against a purportedly racial-bias incident on the shores of Lake Merritt near the Cleveland Cascades in April 2018, has turned into a weekly, weekend gathering where vendors can showcase their products and services to the public.

The incident was sparked by an individual known as ‘BBQ Becky.’ Becky called police on a Black family who were peacefully having a picnic at the Lake. At first, there was a protest staged by members of the victimized family that brought out musicians, poets dancers and other entertainment as well as vendors selling crafts, clothing, wares and food. Every weekend since that incident, Black folks have been gathering at the same area, barbequing and staging community activities.

In the past few months, Black entrepreneurs (mostly micro-businesses) have been pitching their tents, displaying their products and selling everything from ice cream, to T-shirts, to hair products at the Lake. The enterprise is thriving full-force, which includes dozens of entrepreneurs and first –time sellers that have bolstered the area’s Black economy.

While City officials aren’t completely supportive of the event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black vendors have met and have implemented plans to ensure health and safety codes are not being violated by the vendors.

Spokesperson James Copes of ‘Old School Copes’ noted that precautions to ensure health and safety guidelines are in place and being practiced. “Each vendor booth participating at our event is supplied with free face masks and hand sanitizers for our customers when they visit our booths,” Copes noted.  “Additionally, all vendors along Lakeshore are encouraging people to social distance while browsing among the booths.”

“We don’t have the ability to force people to follow certain safety rules, but we make it a point to inform them that when entering any booth, they must adhere to the regulations we have set in place.”

Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, whose district covers the Lake Merritt area, has been supportive of what the Black vendors are doing.  “This marketing enterprise is encouraging and brings a much-needed boost to the economy of the Black community,” said Bas.

“Especially during COVID, we have to follow the rules and policies set forth by the County and City and to work with the City Administration to ensure the public’s safety. Oakland’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission will be meeting on August 12th on how the public can use the parks, including the Lake Merritt.”

“The vendors will continue to serve customers on the Lake,” said Copes.  “It’s important to them economically. People are wondering how they’re going to make it and pay their bills.  This has been one way to help people subsidize their income and develop and grow their business.

“But it’s not just about selling products; we are bringing people together and having conversations about our daily lives and how we can work collectively. We are creating community.”

“We are buying and spending monies with each other.  This is helping people to become self-reliant.  That’s how Black enterprises should work.  Additionally, non-profit groups have joined the vendors to do fundraising projects.”

“We will continue to be respectful of the people who live in the neighborhood.   We will remind people not to park in people’s driveways, and we will shut down at 8:00 p.m. and clean up the areas around each booth.”

For more information on the Black vendors’ group, email oldschoolcopes@gmail.com.

Coming Soon: Black Street Magazine, A Publication of the Black Vendors Association, Black Bird Press

Marvin X at his Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, where he made himself accessible to the masses of Oakland's citizens, white, black, brown, yellow, for decades. He was at his Academy of Da Corner during the Sit in of the 99%, the Oscar Grant rebellion when police shot a US Marine veteran in the head. Marvin suffered tear gas after seeking refuge in Burger King, tear gas came through the door. Oakland Police harassed him for years because he occupied 14th and Broadway giving out conscious literature and counseling Oakland's broken hearted, traumatized and those suffering grief at the OPD murder of their loved ones and the internecine black on black violence that most often doesn't make the headlines. The oppressed used to make him look at them eyeball to eyeball to make sure he was listening to their trauma and unresolved grief. The people informed him that many times the OPD would not visit them to make a report on the death of the loved one. For many, unlike Oscar Grant, there were no rallies, protests, lawsuits, only the silent suffering of family and friends.

For those of you who thought Marvin X was just a nigga on the corner, read up! But before you read, you need to know that because of his presence on that corner, the people told him he made a difference. And as a result, he can't go anywhere in Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco without people recognizing him. "Maybe I'm famous, but when people know you and you don't know them, it means you gotta be on the up and up because you don't know who's watching you. When I went to Santa Rita Jail for failure to show on traffic tickets, when I finally got to my cell called "The Hole" and occupied by senior citizens, one told me, "I know who you are. My wife and I used to pass your stand at 14th and Broadway. We agreed, "That nigga's books sho is high, $20.00!" My books are $19.95 or twenty dollars because during my Crack addiction I only did twenty dollar rocks, didn't have enough game to buy a quarter or eight ball. 2020 all night long. Til the 20s were gone. So as per all the 2020s I bought, $20.00 dollars for a book ain't shit. Imagine all the twenty dollars we spent that went into hot air, literally, because often the dope was fake Crack, i.e., nothing but hot air!

Who was that Nigga on the corner?

Yes, that nigga who just received a $100,000 grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to organize the Black Vendors Association of Oakland. Por favor, Marvin X has ben trying to get Black vendors on the streets of Oakland since the regime of Oakland's first Black Mayor, the Honorable Lionel Wilson. The proposal to teach entrepreneurship to "at risk youth" was diverted to fund entrepreneurial projects for black bourgeoisie youth. Alas, the "at risk youth" joined the line to the brotherhood of mass incarceration as devotees in the California Department of Corrections where they were told by a correctional officer (member of the most powerful union in the state), "Just keep coming back. I got me a yacht, now I want to get one for my son, so nigga keep coming back!"

Comments on the Personality known as Marvin X

Ishmael Reed, Author, Emeritus Professor at UC Berkeley, said, "His play One Day in the Life is the most powerful drama I've seen.... If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland!" Dr. Cornel West of Harvard University said, "Marvin X is the African Socrates teaching in the hood!" Marvin's dear friend James W. Sweeney RIP, said, "He walked through the muck and mire of hell and came out clean as white fish and black as coal!"

James G. Spady, the great Black Arts Movement and Hip Hop critic said, "When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too Short, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, think of Marvin X! He laid the foundation and gave us the language to express black male urban experiences in a lyrical way...."

As per example of Marvin X's Black Arts Movement linguistics, Hip Hop Chuck D and NWA said, "Fuck the police!" But in his classic poem (some say it is his greatest poem) on the 1965 Watt's rebellion, Burn Baby Burn, Marvin X said,

"Motherfuck the police

and Chief Parker's sister too

Burn Baby Burn....

Fineburgs Wineburgs

Safeway Noway

Burn Baby Burn

in time they will learn...."

(FYI, this is a total corruption of my poem by myself off the top of my head, see the original published in Soulbook Magazine)

Bob Holman of New York's Bowery Poetry Club told us, "Marvin X is the USA's Rumi...the ecstasy of Hafiz, the wisdom of Saadi...." Por favor, imagine how it feels for a black nigga poet to be named after the greatest poets in Sufi and Persian literature? I am overwhelmed but thankful I am critiqued in another literary paradigm that transcends the essential thematic narrative of North American African literature, i.e., how I got ovah, how I survived the American death blows!

Now Black Street Magazine

Black Street is the quarterly publication of the Black Vendors Association, Oakland CA. The BVA's purpose is to support, educate, train and advocate for Black Street Vendors. Black Street Magazine is our vehicle to communicate our mission to the community. BVA membership will be promoted and advertised at discount rates. Feature stories about BVA vendors will appear in each issue. Ad sales persons please contact us.

The first issue is planned for early September. Tentative contents include:

1. A message from BVA Founder Marvin X

2. Interview with James Copes on Vending at Lake Merritt

3.Photo essay of Lake Merritt vendors.

4.Deconstruction of SB946, State Law on Street Vendors

5 Update on the Black Arts Movement Business District

6. Survey, What are the needs and wants of Black Street Vendors?

7. BVA Calendar of Events

September

Street Vendors Townhall: What do Black Street Vendors want and need?

October

BVA Social

November

BVA Video Series on Vending and Entrepreneurship

December

Pan African Market Place

January

Membership Drive

For more information about the BVA or Black Street Magazine, call 510-575-7148 or email jmarvinx@yahoo.com

This project is partially supported by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

A Poetic Letter to the Taliban

 

The white Taliban flag flying above a Coca-Cola advertisement at a roundabout in Kabul on Sunday.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times

Marvin X reading at the University of Chicago, 2015

photo Burrell Sunrise

Western savages and mountain men of Afghanistan

twenty year battle royal of nothingness dread

Western savages  departed repeat drama of Vietnam

Taliban victors now 

Didn't "Viet Cong" say, "The spirit of the people

greater than enemy technology."

Afghanistan mountain men no history of defeat

Alexander the Great's fled down mountains

Like Sisyphus,British, Russians, American crusaders 

flee mountain land with dicks in hand

can't defeat mountain men 

20 years trillion  dollars down for nothing burgers no victory

We ain't mad at you Taliban

kicked white man ass for fun

Now time for collaborators sycophants translators 

please spare women girls

mountain caves

Allah gave women girls brains too

Didn't Prophet Muhammad marry working woman

rich intelligent Khadijah

didn't he cry on bosom of Khadijah when revelation came

He liberated women justice fairness 

even in polygamy he said

If you can't treat them equal

and you can't 

leave polygamy alone

Oh Taliban why you want ignorant women half your nation

You are not in Prophet's time never shall be

Come from mental caves 

Muhammad raised you from Ya'um Jahiliyyah, days of ignorance

you return like hog to slop

The Prophet commanded Iqra bismillahi

la jahiliyyah 

iqra iqra 

read in the name of your Lord recite

Qur'an Hadith Sharia not end of knowledge

Iqra Ayat Al Kursi, The Verse of Knowledge

Prophet said Seek knowledge from Spain to China

heard of Moorish Spain

oldest mosque in China

Muslim science ruled world beyond Qur'an Hadith Sharia

where your numbers come from cave man of Europe

Moorish Spain taught you to bathe shower brush your teeth 

gave you knowledge to escape from Dark Ages

into Renaissance

No dark ages in Africa Egypt Timbuktu 

Golden Age of scholars scientists 

heard of Ahmad Baba

Mansa Musa richest man in the world

put Gates Bezos to shame

Oh Taliban and niggas in the hood too

Yeah, you Taliban low information vibration negroes

Pull up your minds and your asses shall follow

Oh Taliban you come from womb with AK47

Plenty guns from Americans, Russians Pakistanis

tanks, trucks, bombs bullets

Shall you turn victory into loss

Do not slay your brothers in the name of dogmatic religiosity

sectarian mythology shall not prevail

only sirata al mustaqim

straight path

Shall you behead brothers sisters fathers mothers who don't agree 

reject your interpretation 

Are you in league with Nigerian barbarians Boku Haram

Oh Taliban you murder in the of Allah

The world is tired of bloody streets  burning villages roadside bombs

farmers can't grow crops animals can't graze in grass

wars for broken bones hearts minds consume too many lands

give peace a chance

Oh Taliban you marched into Kabul today

don't turn victory into loss

Look at your women children in their eyes

exhausted from war death destruction misery

American depart for other wars other lands

Al humdulilah you stopped the opium

Abyad Shaitan made it flow

Now Abyad Shaitan go

who shall fill vacuum 

Iran  

Chinese People's Army 

Call Loya Jirga assemble tribes ethic groups 

Share land with brothers sisters or destroy victory

Hubris makes men of victory men of tragedy

Prophet Muhammad man of destiny

walk in footsteps of Prophet Muhammad

Did Muhammad enslave or set free

Didn't he free Bilal, first Muezzin

cried Al Ahad Al Ahad Al Ahad

Allah the One 

Oh Taliban 

Does Qur'an Hadith Sharia say make love to little boys in madrassas

Haram

shall you marry girls not yet women

Haram

This not Qur'an Hadith Sharia

Ya'm Jahiliyah 

Light  Darkness don't mix

men walk in dark claim they in light

actions reveal darkness of souls

Afghanistan woman said father raped her

then went to Juma'ah salat on front row

father daughter fucker

wretched customs in your land 

like tribalism everywhere

beyond civility humanity 

below beasts 

Oh, Taliban, so right you wrong, so holy you ugly dirty funky

we applaud you defeating crusaders

Allahu Akhbar Allahu Akhbar Allahu Akhbar

Oh Taliban 

don't be devoid of Allah's mercy Rahim

Oh, Taliban make your people happy

let peace love freedom justice 

flow through your precious land

mountains valleys streams

Let Afghanistan live her dreams

 --Marvin X/El Muhajir

8/6/21

Revised 8/15/21

God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, No More Water, Fire Next Time!

God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, No More Water, Fire Next Time

by Marvin X

Marvin X, poet, planner, playwright, publisher, editor, essayist, philosopher, organizer, educator

photo Alicia Mayo

The smarter than God people say God is dead

Words of prophets poppycock

fishing tales of old men

too old to sin

What does God know

Babylon not falling

no haven of every filthy unclean bird

What did Isa Ibn Mar-yam know

about beginning of sorrows

earthquakes in diverse places

famine, drought fire and water

consuming the wicked and righteous who hang around

Those who worship the beast shall be destroyed with the beast

What Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver say

You part of the problem or part of solution

Like Malcolm X said you house negroes more loyal to the beast

than he is to himself

Boss we sick?

You bitch ass foot warmer nigga neo slave pseudo African American

good loyal democratic party votin' nigga

boss we sick nigga

no nigga you sick bitch

better get a healin'

go talk with trees breeze rivers seas

Yemonja help dis sick nigga think he smarter than God

bathe him in your river of love

Yemonja make this zombe come to his natural self 

Master Sun Ra said worship Nature's God

Creator God

Guru Bawa said you in God God in you

what part you don't understand fool

Oh, you cling to god of dead crucified resurrected ascended

You mean Osirus and the 16 Crucified Saviors before Jesus

(read Kersey Graves book)

Smarter than God people say

as they spout pseudo wisdom

Kill all babies 

or eat them at satanic parties

with nuns priests imams 

preachers coaches billionaires

princes and madams of the night

what a glorious affair

smarter than God people without care

We can sin without end

no retribution in global nation

New world order of fools

claim something new

Dismiss Solomon's wisdom of the sun

Smarter than God people just want to have fun

kill babies in womb

Or let them grow for cannon fodder

eternal wars just for fun

make generals happy 

arms makers too

700 billion annual arms to destroy poor nations

Democrats Republicans no hesitation

they all vote what lobbyists say

mindless sycophants

smarter than God they chant

Ever heard of a democratic scientist

Republican scientist

Scientists of two truths or two lies

85% deaf dumb blind

sing along with Mitch

robots of Fox CNN 

take your choice

fake news all

truth trampled under foot

smarter than God people pay piper

the tune is Silent Night

can't imagine germ warfare in their midst

Smarter than God people wouldn't do such a thing

but eat babies drink their blood

why not spread germs reset global order

why would they do this you say

Smarter than God people need to play

bored with money 

billions trillions

let's eliminate the poor

taking up space

let them eat germs devour toxic air water food

let's make them obese around the world

Let them drink Coke

seven grams sugar per can

no matter diabetes 

cut off his toe foot leg

Drink Coke be Cool

walk with swagger 

what do poor matter

we are smarter than God people

we rule the world

10% blood suckers of the poor

living on $1.00 per day

Imagine working from can't see to can't see

$1.00 per day

most of the world you didn't know

we had live in maid in mexico city

paid her $30.00 month

cleaned house

cooked

went to mercado para comida

limpio ropas

$1.00 day por favor

you wonder why they run across border like roaches

they running from roaches dirt floor catholic saints on mantel

candles burning Virgin Mary Black Saint Martin De Porres

running from drug cartels filthy drinking water

we drank no water didn't have iodine pill

didn't eat food from street vendors

only ate out in Zona Rosa (white folks zone)

On way to Zona Rosa via Paseo de la Reforma

pass US Embassy

long lines of Mexicanos para Ustados Unidos Norte Americano

mucho mucho Mexicanos

no quiero dirt floors washing bathing cooking in filthy river water

Black USA Negroes in Mexico say

We never going back to USA. Fuck USA. Any Black want to stay in USA

let them stay enjoy slavery in the new era

imagine fighting for voting rights forever

13th Amendment slavery

2.5 Constitutional slaves in USA prisons today

Elders tell me today is worse than slavery 2021

And 1619 is a lie

Yes it is because the shit started in 1441 when Portuguese hit West Africa

Is Thomas Jefferson raping child Sally Hemming a lie

Her six kids by him a lie

She lived in a room next to his bedroom without light a lie

1619 a lie

Critical race theory a lie

what the fuck is the motherfuckin' goddamn truth

Sun Ra said we want the low down dirty truth

no miller lite funky white full blown denial truth

white christian democratic jim crow lynching denial truth

dem niggas hung themselves

we would never do such a thing

we had civil war because we just wanted them to work forever

while we sipped mint juleps and miss ann slipped out back door with buck

same time massa eased out front door to fuck same buck

when civil war broke out miss ann had buck to herself

whipped him when he didn't serve her right

buck slipped off plantation to be with 200,000 African warriors

disarmed after critical winning civil war

languished in neo slavery from civil war to 2021

jim crow no fun lynching no fun 

coming home from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan no fun

fighting for theAmerican lie no fun

come home to nothing life no fun

nigga life ghetto prison like Gaza

We Palestinians too 

ghetto hood open prison some never leave

never leave Harlem go downtown never visit Bronx Brooklyn

Chicago Blacks never travel train Northside

Southside stop no more blacks going north

Newark blacks never got to New York

Red cap said Newark baraka told me

Blacks thought red cap said New York jumped off train

been in Newark ever since

Blacks in Hunters Point San Francisco

never been on Third Street bus now trolly to Fisherman's Wharf never

Some San Francisco blacks never been to Oakland

Berkeley blacks never been to Emeryville Marina

Nancy Willson say I been to Paris, Rome, Spain

but never been to me never been to me

James Brown said you got to get to funky D funky D

Michael say look at man in mirror

who dat man

then he say

Remember the Time

But you can't remember

Maafa took your mind

beyond amnesia 

nothing

blank

except dance gods 

yams rice

no name no tribe

pay ancestor.com for name tribe

nigga please

You tribe of Shabazz now

Black Nigga Tribe, or Negus

African American ain't you

They from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana

Ethiopia Jamaica Haiti Trinidad

Barbados Negroes

You North American African

Aboriginal the Moors say

no come on slaver ships

here before Columbus

Guided Columbus overhere

He saw Moorish mosques on the way inj

We Moors

same Moors conquered Spain 711AD

When Black African General Tarik

landed on Rock of Gibraltar, Arabic, Rock of Tarik

African/Arab Moors ruled Spain 711-1492

Grandeur of Moorish Spain is African/Arab

Better ax somebody

Oh, smarter than God people

Jesus said it best for all times in John 8:44

You are liars murderers

Now you profess you smarter than God

with lies murders across the planet earth

God is Love Truth Beauty not lies murder

not killing for joy a nut

murderers get addicted to killing for joy

even in the ghetto whole families kill for joy

families who murder for joy

whitey spends 700 billion annually to kill around the world

for joy

what war has he won since WWII

he didn't win WWII

Russians sacrificed 50 million to win WWII

You won't give them credit for their sacrifice

How can you lie about the lost of so many souls and bodies

yet you lie and persist 1619 project is a lie

don't want it taught in your schools

You can allow the truth of WWII taught in your schools

the sacrifice of millions of other nations than Americans you lie lie lie

As planet earth burns from sea to sea continent to continent you dumbfounded

where is your science of Mother Earth as if she needs your punk ass to save her

When she's been here trillions and billions of years

and your punk bitch fake Green revolution is going to save Mother Earth

you can't save your own bitch ass

Your fake green revolution

after polluting the planet

imagine a sea of plastic three times the size of Texas

And you want cell phone of precious metals from Africa, China, Latin America

gold, silver copper platinum palladium

for your electric cars to drive you nowhere but somewhere to profess

you are smarter than God

you have no other reason for being

you have all the money guns religions slaves and souls of men, women and children.

Still you want more and have no plans of sharing your ill gotten gain

surplus capital from empires of genocidal love and kindness

Alas, after you conquer and destroy cultures civilizations

your democratic and republican scientists, i.e., cultural anthropologists

dig up remains and display them in your grand European museums

Oh, smarter than God people

did the prophets lie 

Isaiah Solomon David Jeremiah Jesus

Noah told you

No more water 

The Fire Next Time!

Lot told the men to take his daughters

but they wanted the men

Such was Sodom and Gomorrah at the end

And Sarah turned back into a pillar of salt

addicted by negative attraction

salt lady

Smarter than God people deny truth in their supreme arrogance

Dumbest motherfuckers ever lived on planet earth

And now they going to outer space

to do what but fuck it up

what else they do with planet earth

fuck it up

fuck it up

fuck it up

smarter than God people

let them all take a trip to outer space

one way ticket please please 

don't come back

Bezos and your fellow blood suckers of the poor to follow

Bezos you said your slaves made your masturbation to space possible.

So you gave that CNN nigga $100 million

I ain't hatin' on the nigga

nigga from Oakland

but I will do more with one penny

I will save the world with one penny

Or leave it to my grandson who told me a three years old,

"Grandfather you can't save the world

but I can."

That boy don't know how much pressure he took off me.

I can get drunk and party 'cause I know he got this shit covered."

--Marvin X

8/5/21