Oh Happy Day
Oh, Edwin
we rejoice your passage to the Upper Room
Oh, Happy Day
for all of us in the Bay, Oaktown
City of Resistance
Qur'an says After difficulty comes ease
Oh Happy Day
Sixteen Crucified Saviors walked
on water
peace be still
oh happy day
Jesus walked
Isa Ibn Mar'yam
Isa Ibn Yusef
Oh happy day
Frankie Beverly say
joy pain same
oh happy day
after difficulty comes ease
no cross no crown
sweat equity
Santa Rita jail
holding cell sleep head by toilet
strip butt naked time after time
hold nuts cough
top ramen money
no cigarettes
hungry hustle food day night
communal meal top ramen casserole doritoes bologna
everybody share
Oh happy day
down dungeon
If mind ain't in prison
you ain't in prison!
Oh happy day!
Some out here in the big yard in mental prison, lockdown. Wake up, stay woke!
Oh happy day!
Jesus walked
Oh happy day
washed my sins away
Isa Ibn Mar'yam
Isa Ibn Yusef.
--Marvin X
1/18/18
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Marvin X new poem, 2018: Divine Discontent
What make god and goddess happy?
Original man/woman
Aboriginal
everywhere find us traces
bones in sand
primitive art Picasso copy
copy cats plagiarists
original man
mad in babylon
generational
no post traumatic slave syndrome
traumatic in the now
slave now
tech brain only
no original mind
cell phone mind
where you at where you at
Google nigga
white woman tell you where she at
where you at is the question
where you at
2018 in the rain
scared of Trump
Rocket Man #1
you scared of little Kim Rocket Man #2
Who got most rockets
who's finger button always works
Rocket Man #1
Shithole man #1
Last hurrah
savage no civility
discipline Sun Ra said
Space is the Place
party ova here
emergency situation
run faya life
grab children, husband wife
If you resist he will flee from you
You flee in name of Allah
"You shall find many places of escape
abundant resources." Al Qur'an
Tribe of Shabazz Greater Taker
Allahu Akhbar
no more blues man woman
Allahu Akhbar
Flee to Upper Room
escape dungeon mind
be other side of time
infinity
everybody star
shine star
little light shine
Mutabaruka say
don't stay white man land too long
African, Kemet, Aboriginal, Crime in street
negro problem no, negro solution
no white man solution Chinese Arab Latin
don't let devil catch ya naked
riddin' dirty
travel light
hide from fools
As-salaam Alaikum fool
Allahu Akhbar fool
Al hamdulilah fool
Aoutho bilahi mina s shaitani r rajim fool.
--Marvin X
1/17/18
Jobs Jobs Jobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hold Oakland Whole Foods accountable for racist violence--protest Tuesday, January 23, 3:30-5:30 at Oakland Whole Foods
Whole
Foods has been attacking folks of color within the past two years—going
as far as attacking and racially profiling two black men, and a young,
black teenager in recent reports. Their gentrifying organization must be
held accountable for the threat they have posed to our community and
it’s time that we make some noise to show resistance and intolerance to
racial terror on any and all fronts.
Join us, next Tuesday (1/23) from 3:30-5:30 PM as we hold a noise demo in front of the store to demonstrate our intolerance for racism in our communities. Please bring any safe objects you have to make noise, signs, and bright spirits as we show up for the folks who were affected and targeted by this racist institution. It is imperative that we address racism on all fronts in our communities—especially in recent light of honoring King’s legacy and the path he has helped to pave with his work. We have to continue to take to the streets EVERY day, and address issues as we see them rather than depending on others to do the work first.
When: Tuesday, January 23rd
Time: 3:30-5:30PM
Where: Whole Foods Market 230 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94612
Direct all questions, comments, or concerns to:
wassgoodlucy@gmail.com
Hope to see you all there! Love & Solidarity!
Yet another case of blatant racism and racial profiling at another new Oakland establishment has occurred! I’ve witnessed this multiple times at different stores in Oakland, we all know we have and too often I’ve just grit my teeth and accepted that as way it has to be. But this most recent incindent involving a 13 year old child buying gifts for his mother and him being racially profiled twice in the same store over a year apart!!??
http://fiveo.us/?p=334
That means there’s an issue. I want to force Whole Foods Oakland and board members of Oakland’s developers committee to sit and have a discussion and be held accountable for this grievance against the black community. Please sign and help move this along, share it wide , give suggestions, I’ve never done something like this before but I couldn’t stay silent any longer , any help from established activists would be appreciated. We need change , I don’t know if it will happen in our lifetime but we have to try.
Join us, next Tuesday (1/23) from 3:30-5:30 PM as we hold a noise demo in front of the store to demonstrate our intolerance for racism in our communities. Please bring any safe objects you have to make noise, signs, and bright spirits as we show up for the folks who were affected and targeted by this racist institution. It is imperative that we address racism on all fronts in our communities—especially in recent light of honoring King’s legacy and the path he has helped to pave with his work. We have to continue to take to the streets EVERY day, and address issues as we see them rather than depending on others to do the work first.
When: Tuesday, January 23rd
Time: 3:30-5:30PM
Where: Whole Foods Market 230 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94612
Direct all questions, comments, or concerns to:
wassgoodlucy@gmail.com
Hope to see you all there! Love & Solidarity!
Boycott Whole Foods Oakland and its racism!!
Yet another case of blatant racism and racial profiling at another new Oakland establishment has occurred! I’ve witnessed this multiple times at different stores in Oakland, we all know we have and too often I’ve just grit my teeth and accepted that as way it has to be. But this most recent incindent involving a 13 year old child buying gifts for his mother and him being racially profiled twice in the same store over a year apart!!??
http://fiveo.us/?p=334
That means there’s an issue. I want to force Whole Foods Oakland and board members of Oakland’s developers committee to sit and have a discussion and be held accountable for this grievance against the black community. Please sign and help move this along, share it wide , give suggestions, I’ve never done something like this before but I couldn’t stay silent any longer , any help from established activists would be appreciated. We need change , I don’t know if it will happen in our lifetime but we have to try.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Janteenth year two (January 19, 2016, BAMBD made official by Oakland City Council) in Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District
Did you know the City of Oakland established the Black Arts Movement Business District
January 19, 2016?
And two years later you don't know about the BAMBD? Ask your City Councilperson for the area, Lynette McElhaney? Ask why our banners don't fly along the BAMBD, the 14th Street corridor from the lower bottom to Lake Merritt, and four blocks north and south?
Ask why no budget has been allocated for the BAMBD. Isn't this similar to Juneteenth and post slavery? They said we were free, yes, we learned one year later in Texas, but weren't given the trappings of freedom such as forty acres and a mule. The Black Arts Movement Business District is part of the City of Oakland's Downtown Plan for the next 25 to 50 years, but there is no equity in business development, housing, jobs, cultural and art space and other amenities.
At the present rate of development and gentrification in the BAMBD, we can only look forward to being museum objects, similar to the Black cultural district in Austin, Texas, i.e., the district has few Black people due to development and gentrification.
On behalf of the North American African community, the BAMBD CDC or community development corporation has been established as an independent entity from the City of Oakland. If the last two years are an index of Oakland's snail paced bureaucratic process, we clearly don't wish to be caught at the whim of ephemeral regimes. The BAMBD must stand on solid ground for the present and future.
Marvin X co-founder
Black Arts Movement and BAMBD
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