Parable of a Real Woman

Parable of A Real Woman



There was a man who had many women in his life. They had come and gone, with himself at fault most of the time. But he wouldn't give up, he continued his self improvement and search for that special woman. He talked with elder women about what he should do. One told him he'd never had a real woman! If so, she would still be with him, no matter what, through thick and thin, up times and down times. Well, he asked, how would he know when such a woman was in his presence. First, clean up your own act, she said. Scoop your own poop. Rid yourself of defects of character. Make amendments to all those you have harmed in life. It takes humility to do this.

Still, how will I know the real woman? The older woman answered, you will know because when she comes over your house and sees something amiss, she will take authority to correct the situation. If your house is dirty, she will immediately ask if she can clean it as a favor to you, as an act of love. She will not want any money for her services. And she will clean your house as it has never been cleaned before because she knows what she is doing. Yes, she is a pro, not only with house cleaning but with every thing she does, including her love making. She will make sure you are satisfied and herself as well.

She will demand respect and will respect you. She will demand freedom and give you freedom. She will speak in the language of love so smooth that it will be like a razor cutting to the heart. You will be bleeding to death but not know you are cut.

You will do what she suggests and do it willingly because it will not be a demand but a request said so subtle you won't recognize it for what it actually is: a demand. And you will love doing what she requests.

When you need space and time to yourself you won't need to explain, she will pick up the vibe.
And you will do the same for her.

She will not be jealous and envious of your talent and skills or how handsome you are to other women. She knows she has you in her pocket because she is confident of herself, and not worried about some other woman taking her man.

If you are taken by another woman, it must be the will of God that you go. She knows God will replace her emptiness with someone even better than you. But she will give you time to get a grip on yourself and find your way back home. Just don't take too long and when you come home don't be asking about what she was doing while you were gone.

A real woman will put her resources at your disposal if you are worthy of them, as the prophet Muhammad was treated by the wealthy trade woman Khadijah. There is no selfishness in love. All is for the beloved, but a wise woman ain't no fool. As the song says, the greatest thing you will ever do is love and be loved in return.

The man thanked the elder woman for her wisdom and departed on his search.

--Marvin X
3/11/10

Parable of the Woman at the Well

Parable of the Woman at the Well

A woman asked Plato why are youth out of control ? He replied that youth are out of control because adults are out of control and youth observe then emulate their behavior.

Even during the revolutionary 60s, the militants, who are the fathers and mothers of today’s youth, were guilty of contradictions, or saying one thing but doing another. They talked black power but went home to beat their wives and women. They preached discipline but were guilty of drug abuse and abuse of power. Much of our behavior was patriarchal white supremacy actions that debased women, considering them less than human.

Of course we learned this behavior from our white supremacy socialization. True enough, there were many good things we learned and achieved during that time, and many sincere and honest people gave their lives for the cause of freedom.

But if we had been of sober minds, we would have been able to detect agent provocateurs and snitches. We would have been able to see through the US Government’s counter intelligence program or Cointelpro. With sobriety and discipline, we might have been able to show our children better examples of male/female relations, and perhaps today’s youth would be more respectful of women, elders and peers.

The woman asked Plato what can be done today to reconnect with our children ? Plato said we must embrace them with unconditional love and do not abuse them, physically, sexually or otherwise. Do not show them contradictory behavior, saying one thing but doing the opposite.

We must not say we are about freedom, yet make their mothers slaves in the home, treating them with abuse that the children observe. Many children have been abandoned and left to fend for themselves. They are without mother or father. Many are living in foster homes, the result of parental drug and sexual abuse.

Adults must stop being predators and instead be mentors and guides. The youth want and seek our wisdom, but we must reach out to them because many are terrified of us just as we are terrified of them. It is communal insanity when we allow children to rule our community, making us afraid to go outside at night, afraid to go to the store.


But we can only take back control of our community by reconnecting and embracing our children, no matter how painful it is for us and them. We must make amends to them for our wickedness and then demand of them the same.

Yes, they must apologize to the elders they have harmed and disrespected. What we are talking about is the urgent need for a healing session between youth and adults, a time and space where we can gather to admit our mistakes and promise to do better now and in the future.

We must, youth and adults, swallow our pride and reconnect. We cannot allow the chaos to continue because we know things go from bad to worse, if we do not address the issues. Nothing is going to change until we change our thinking and actions. We must rise up from animal to divine. The tide is turning because you are turning the tide!

Mothers and fathers who are separated must come together for the sake of their children, if only for a moment. When children see parents reconciling, they will do likewise. No matter the pain of the past, adults must show the way to community unity.

Why shouldn’t youth resort to violence, after all, they see adults resolving their conflicts with violence? Adults cannot get out of our responsibility to show the way, to guide and mentor. Every youth is our child, thus our responsibility to show the right way.

Give youth a chance, support them when they are selling items other than dope, such as DVDs, CDs, gear and other items to get their hustle on in a legal way. At least they are not killing to make a dollar, so reach out to them. Hug a thug before the thug hugs you!

The woman seemed to understand the wisdom of Plato. Although frustrated to the max, she said she would try to reach out to youth, rather than simply complain about their behavior and shortcomings.

Parable of Women Without Men

Parable of Women Without Men


There was war in the land, for centuries war in the land. The men were bred for labor, sperm donations and death. The women were booty, the spoils of war. A classical situation, nothing unique, racist, call it the art of war. Men must be destroyed, or humiliated, effeminated, castrated, dehumanized. Where is the movie of David Walker, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, Toussaint, Bokman?

There is no other way to exercise social control over the population of oppressed people, enslaved peoples, than to desecrate the men and their manhood. There can be no recognition of heroes or sheroes, this would be anathema to the oppressor system of domination. Where is the movie of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells.

The man in the oppressive society is at best a stunted man, a crippled man, handicapped physically and mentally. He is a warrior but unless he dons the warrior persona, consciously or unconsciously, he cannot assume the title, thus he is a wimp, a punk bitch, a dehumanized human being, a captive in the slave society, no matter how modern the trappings of said society.

Either the former slave exercises self determination and sovereignty, or he/she is a colonized being, a slave or in the modern era a wage slave, but a slave none the less.

He can be afforded the trappings of freedom, the flag, national anthem that he is forced to sing, the election of a president of his own kind (how many presidents of black face do we have in Africa that are actually white men of the most profound kind in their wickedness and debauchery?)

How many African prime ministers, kings, presidents for life do we have who have dungeons full of opposition leaders, writers, poets, journalists?

And so out of this matrix is supposed to arise strong men and boys capable of continuing the tradition of manhood which involves the revolutionary tradition? Meanwhile the purpose of the oppressor society is to dehumanize any semblance of manhood at every turn, to project only the personality of the stunted man, the muzzled dog man, the effete man as the dominate personality.

What woman wants such a man? The woman says, "If I wanted a woman, I do not need a fake woman, I might as well get me a real woman, a woman who knows how to treat me with gentleness, even more so than the gentle man!

The champion of male/female relations, Sharazah Ali says to women, "Be careful when you call for men to be more sensitive, you end up with effeminate personalities that you reject." What does the woman says in T.S. Eliot's poem, "That is not what I meant, that is not what I meant at all...."

And so let us cut to the chase, what are women to do when their men are incarcerated, victims of homicide and/or suicide, depressed, drugged out, bisexual, homosexual, unemployed, etc.?

Nature itself rises to the occasion to answer such questions, such conundrums of life in the hood!
The man cannot sell dope, so the woman sells dope. The man cannot pimp, so the woman pimps. The man cannot carry weapons, so the woman does. The man cannot gansta, so the woman does.
The man cannot care for his family, so his girl's girl assumes the role, dress, gait, voice and language. The woman becomes protector of the woman, since the man is absent, a victim on the battlefield, a causality of life in the hood.

She dons the persona of the man, including pants sagging, swagger in gait, voice, and all manner of the masculine personality. She straps on the plastic or rubber dildo to replace the natural male organ that is absent for innumerable reasons, among them the fact the man is angry, under stress, violent and lacking in tenderness, brutal, while she needs tender loving care in her stress, trying to be mother, and lover to the unlovable male, thus she moves to her sister girl for such tenderness and understanding.

If she is the economic superior, she takes authority as a young lady said, "I leave him with the baby and I bounce. He the baby mama, I'm the baby daddy."

Indeed, we see the men picking up children from childcare. We see the men pushing strollers downtown during work hours, suggesting the male is now the childcare provider while the women is employed. This is all by societal design, of course. Have no illusions why the woman can find employment and the man cannot. The oppressor knows well he can control the woman but he also knows the oppressed male seeks to overthrow him at the earliest possibility, to cut his throat and claim the championship title as the master.

On the educational level matters are devastating. Prison is the institution for educating black males, white the academic prisons educate black women who earn their degrees in higher education but must seek out imprisoned brothers if they are to have a man. After all, black bourgeoisie parents do not send their sons to Harvard, Yale and Stanford to connect with a "black bitch." It was clear to my daughter when she attended Stanford Law School that she and her girls were not to be matched with black males. Black males avoided them like the bubonic plague.

I write as a father with three daughters who graduated college, Yale, Stanford, Howard, Fresno State University, New York University, Albany, so I know the dilemma of black women seeking a husband in academia. One of my daughters said recently 75% of her friends have married or have mates out of the black manhood pool. The Washington Post noted black women have discarded the idea of marriage with anyone.

Imagine the situation at Howard University, Washington, DC, with 14 women for every man, imagine the crisis in male/female relations, no matter how each gender claims they handle the situation. I recently spent a week lecturing at Howard, but I got a clearer understanding of Howard sexuality, from the males and females, and yet what I learned only clarified the tragedy of male/female relations, with Howard as a microcosm. The stats are so outrageous that to consider a functional solution is beyond the Western paradigm.

We now have women with MBAs, PhDs, either giving up on a husband or seeking a husband doing twenty-five to life.

Such is the result of war in the hood. Part of the frustration, anger and rejection of our children who survive the academic world, yet, as Baraka says, "Come home from academia hating us and everything we're about, yet they don't even know what we're about," but the children suspect we have sold them a bogus bill of goods. Many were told to go to college to find a husband, yet there is none.

Dr. Wade Nobles says no matter if our children attend Stanford or San Quentin prison, it is all the same, they are imprisoned, and thus denied their natural right to be with each other, in love and tenderness.

The real question is what does all this forebode for the the future? What shall be the new configuration is gender relations? Surely, not more of the same old bullshit, not after women have enjoyed same gender loving relations, and are economically and psychologically independent.

And yet, how shall they deal with the macho man or the effeminate male or bisexual rejected by the woman seeking a "real man," and yet many matrifocal households can at best produce the effeminate male, possibly the result of bio-chemistry, the petrochemical foods, including hormone produced meats, water tainted with hormones and other bio undegradable chemicals recycled from waste water. We are told the residue from plastics is causing sexual transformations. Surely this all part of the bio-chemical warfare, add in germ warfare with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

I only know one thing, plastic toys are a sick reasonable facsimile for the real male penis. But it is understandable in war, though the only solution to war is active engagement by males and females, not diversionary tactics that only prolong war. For the day shall surely arrive when the female's biology shall seek the real deal Hollyfield.

The future of the black nation is at hand. Tell me how same gender loving people shall contribute to the this future. They may find themselves just as guilty as the oppressor in the destruction of the black nation. The question is are they pro-life or anti-life?

I don't care whether you agree with me or not. Just consider what I've said and the rest is up to you.
--Marvin X
6/1/10

Patriot Act and Politics of Tricknology

The Black face of Imperialism





Patriot Act and Politics of Tricknology

The Patriot Act was easily renewed by both Democrats and Republicans because they are two sides of the same fascist coin. They are both slaves to the lobbyists who are whores of special interests in the military,corporate, financial complex of white supremacy institutions that are transnational and couldn't give a damn about the American people or any other people except their Gang of Eight Club of gangsters and robber barons.

We saw them dancing together in lockstep to the Zionist Netanyahu who addressed the Congress as if it was his Greek Chorus of sycophants. But the winds of the world are blowing revolution, not reaction, therefore we need only be patient to see the reactionaries swept up into tornadoes and hurricanes powered by the wrath of people united to resist the pseudo power of the ruling class that shall meet the same fate as the quisling Mubarak and others in Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

America is greatly mistaken if she thinks she will avoid the rising tide of world revolution with her "best democracy that money can buy." The spirit of real change, not pseudo change, is in the wind. The people can smell it, taste it, and will be glad about it. But as Mao said, "The reactionaries will never put down their butcher knives, they will never turn into Buddha heads."

We are crystal clear who the real patriots are, certainly not those who pillage the coffers of the poor, who leave them robbed and half naked on the roadside. The Democrats and Republicans should both give up their charade and surrender power to the people before they are hunted down and captured in some rat hole like Saddam Hussain and General Mladic, scoundrels of the worse kind, yet no worse than those who proclaim democracy yet are nothing but bloodsuckers of the poor, who would only be gratified if wage slavery was the order of the day, without a living wage or benefits.

The people need only stand up and join the winds of revolution sweeping from North Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. No, the Patriot Act is not for terrorists because the real terrorists are those who passed the Patriot Act in an attempt to stifle descent and perpetuate fear. Do not be moved except to challenge all their machinations and maneuvers to prolong the fascist state that is clearly in decay and dying with each passing moment.

Overcome the fear of death and prison, only then can you stand up to the reactionaries in the persona of the good guys. Yet we see what happens when the "good guys" take you into false wars on false pretenses that only maim and kill your sons and daughters for a worthless cause. When America wants to find the real terrorists, she will need only look in the mirror at her leaders in the Congress, in the slimy corporations and filthy Wall Street dins of iniquity, all of which are perpetuated by the Monkey Mind Media to maintain the people in a state of drunkenness and addiction to the world of make believe.

The roots of American spying began in slavery and continued during emancipation with the Black Code surveillance and later the founding of the FBI that again focused on Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. The 60s Cointelpro continued the anti-American tradition of disrespecting the rights of citizens to freely assemble to address their grievances.

What we need is not the Patriot Act but for true patriots to stand and draw that line in the sand that says liberty or death.
--Marvin X
5/27/11

General of Muslim Genocide Captured for War Crimes--Next Condi, Bush, Rumsfeld

General of Muslim Genocide Ratko (the rat) Mladic Captured-- Next Bush, Condi, Rumsfeld for Crimes Against Humanity!


The most wanted by UN Prosecutors Bosnian General Ratko Mladic

Ratko Mladic who was the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect in 1990 has been arrested. General Ratko Mladic is accused over the mastermind of massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbian President Boris Tadic confirmed the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb army chief at a news conference.

Serbian President Tadic said work was under way to extradite General Mladic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and it later emerged that a plane carrying the suspect had taken off from Belgrade for the Dutch city.

The detention, the Serbian leader said, had closed one chapter in Serbian history, bringing the country and the region closer to reconciliation.

The other top Balkan war criminals had been captured and tried earlier, but the failure to catch Mladic was delaying the entry of Serbia into the European Union.

Some consider the Srebrenica murders the worst incident since World War 2.

The Life and Times of a North American African Poet at 67

Born May 29, 1944, Fowler, California













Daughter Muhammida



El Muhajir and granddaughter



Mahadevi



photo Sam Anderson










The controversial



$100.00 book













Violinist Tarika Lews,



first female member



of the Black Panther Party






MX and Phavia Kujichagulia,
poet, musician, griot. "If you think
I'm just a physical thing, wait til you
see the spiritual power I bring."











Hunia Bradley,
social activist/educator
Minister of Ceremony,
First Poet's Church of the
Latter Day Egyptian
Revisionists








Master dancer/choreographer
Performed in Marvin 1981 musical
drama, In the Name of Love, Laney
College Theatre, Oakland CA. A woman
of deep political consciousness.










Rama Lamar,



Metaphysician,



Academy of da Corner,



First Poet's Church








Oldest daughter Nefertiti El Muhajir

Happy Birthday, Dad!!!!!!!!!!

As much as you are celebrating a new day, I cannot help but to hear the pain of the possibility of death. Life and death exist as one and the same of two continuum's. I thank you for being an example of one who lives out passionately what he believes in and loves.

My prayer for you today, is that you love yourself as much as you have given life to your writings. It is time to love the pain, hurt, guilt and regret away. You've done what you have done. You've caught up, I pray on what needs to be said. I know that as life continues to unfold their will be more to say, but when do you find time to love, truly?

Not a love out of passion, lust, but a love that is inspiring, less based on lust, but based on compatibility and learning how to give what you've been unable to give before. A love that is unconditional, where you give in and embrace the other and you look back and be proud of what you have done, so that you have room to love, and love is not pushed away and put on the back burner.

This is a holistic love born out of all of the knowledge of what you've learned about mind, body and soul. It doesn't look like all of the other relationships. This is a new love, not only for woman, but for man, and for yourself. I thank you for enriching my life with the knowledge that I have, about myself, my people and my history. As much as I have been proud to give credit to all that my mother had invested in me, I realize that I am a beautiful reflection of the two of you, and I love and embrace who I am.

I thank you for the beautiful people that I have met through you which have helped to constantly expand the power of my influence and my knowledge. Although we are far away, I bless you and I thank you on this day and I pray that you will continue to manifest all of the spiritual beauty that is still remaining to come forth from a man who is seeking to be all that God desires of you. With each waking day, it is a reminder that you are still here to grow and not wither. Grow.




Nisa Ra, former wife, still my very dear friend, mother of Muhammida

X, thinking of you, Bro, and giving thanks for your presence on the planet. I trust that all is well with you and that you are making "self care" a priority. Give thanks. Keep the positive works coming. Blessings to you always.
One love, Nisa




Daughter Muhammida

with hip hop diva,Mary J. Blige

A filmmaker: Hip Hop, the New

World Order.

















Poet, Critic, Novelist, Professor

Sherley A. Williams (RIP). Marvin and

Sherley grew up together in Fresno.










Marvin Ellis Jackmon circa three or four years old






















Amina and Amiri Baraka, close friends since he met Amiri in 1964. Met Amina in 1967

when she came to the west coast along with Amiri to facilitate the Communications Project

at San Francisco State University. Off campus base was Black House, the political/cultural

center founded by Marvin, Eldridge Cleaver, Ed Bullins, Ethna X. Wyatt (Hurriyah Asar).
































Mother Marian M. Jackmon

with her brother, Clarence Murrill

(may they both RIP). She taught

her son, "Use the mind God gave

you!" His father, mother and uncle
published the Fresno Voice, one of
the first black newspapers in the
Central Valley. His father was a Race Man

who fought in WWI.



Playwright Ed Bullins and Marvin X founded

Black Arts West Theatre in San Francisco's Fillmore District,

1966. Marvin would join Bullins in Harlem at the New Lafayette

Theatre, 1968. Marvin became associate editor of Black Theatre

Magazine.














Marvin was the first person Eldridge hooked up with

upon release from Soledad Prison. They organized

the Black House. Marvin introduced Eldridge to

Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, his friends from

Oakland's Merritt College, 1962-64. Eldridge immediately

joined the Black Panther Party. See Marvin's memoir

Eldridge Cleaver: My friend the devil, introduction byAmiri Baraka.







Fly to Allah is the seminal

work of the genre Muslim American literature, according to Dr. Mohja Kahf, professor of Islamic literature at the University of Arkansas. The Black Arts poets are the foundation of Muslim American literature.










Mohja Kahf says read this for Ramadan!








Cover design by Emory Douglas, Black Panther Minister of Culture.








I AM OSCAR GRANT, collection of essays on Oakland, Marvin X, focusing on the cold blooded murder of young Oscar Grant by BART police officer who received a two year sentence.

Michael Vick, NFL quarterback, got four years for killing dogs.























Marvin X first heard Malcolm when he addressed 7000 students outside UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, 1964.

















Marvin X and Gregory Fields, legal advisor, at Academy of da Corner, Marvin's peripatetic school at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.













Marvin joined Nation of Islam in 1967, then

fled to Toronto, Canada to resist going to

Vietnam. Returned underground to US to

join the Black Arts Movement in Chicago and Harlem.

After conviction for draft evasion, fled the US again to

Mexico City and Belize, Central America. Was apprehended

in Belize and returned to the US. Served five months in Terminal Island Federal Prison.














Painters Dewey Crumpler, Arthu Monroe; poets Ishmael Reed,

Conyus, Marvin X, Al Young

photo Tennessee Reed









Grandson Jah Amiel. At two years old, he toldhis grandfather, "Grandpa, you can't save the people but I can!"

















Marvin X in Harlem, NY, 1968
photo Doug Harris
















Videographer Ken Johnson

and journalist/professor

Wanda Sabir, Marvin.

Wanda's parents read her Marvin's

classic fable of the Black Bird.





Bay Area Black Author
honor slain journalist Chauncey Bailey a Joyce Gordon Gallery,

downtown Oakland. Marvin and

Oakland Post Publisher Paul

Cobb (far right) have established

the Black Chuancey Bailey Project

to counter the Monkey Mind Media's

"Chauncey Bailey Project" that refused to investigate the police role in the murder of Chauncey, even though he was investigating police corruption at the time of his assassination in broad daylight, downtown Oakland. He was also investigating corruption at City Hall under then mayor Jerry Brown, now governor of California.

photo Gene Hazzard and Adam Turner






Lil Bobby Hutton, murdered in shootout with the Oakland Police, 1968. Eldridge Cleaver was wounded.




Lil Bobby was 16 when he became the third member of the BPP, along with

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.








The Oakland Post Newspaper Group purchased books from local black authors for Juvenile Hall. Pastor Brandon Reems, Marvin X and poet Ptah Mitchell made presentation at Juvenile Hall.



photo Gene Hazzard





Marvin's longtime artistic associate (since 1980), poet/actress/director/producer

Ayodele Nzinga








Poet/actress Aries Jordan, Assistant to

Marvin X



















Angela Davis. At the same time (1969) Gov. Ronald Reagan

was kicking Angela out of UCLA for being a black Communist,

he kicked Marvin X out of Fresno State University for being a black Muslim who refused to fight in Vietnam. He ordered the

State College Board of Trustees to "get Marvin X off campus by any means necessary." Supposedly he was "not qualified" to teach at FSU, but two years later he was hired to lecture at the University of California, Berkeley with the same qualifications.






Daughter Amira Jackmon, Esq.

Graduated from Yale and Stanford.
Decided to do for self with her food

business.













Young men reading at

Academy of da Corner,

14th and Broadway,

downtown Oakland.

Ishmael Reed says"Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland. 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."





Tommy Smith and John Carlos

saluting Black Power at Olympics

in Mexico City, 1968. Marvin X

played basketball against Tommy Smith

in high school. Tommy was from Lemoore High,

Marvin attended Edison High in Fresno.









Revolutionary artist Elizabeth Cattlett Mora.

She gave poet refuge in Mexico City during his

second exile, 1969. She warned him not to go down

to Belize, then British Honduras. "It's raw colonialism,

Marvin, please don't go." He was later deported back

to the US for teaching Black Power. While awaiting deportation at the Belize, BH police station, the police gathered around him and begged him to teach them about Black Power.



Marvin and Muhammad Ali both

refused to fight in Vietnam. Ali
said, "Ain't no Viet Cong callled me
a nigguh!"



























Marvin and Akbar Muhammad,
International Representative
of Minister Farrakhan.











Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party

Bobby performed in Marvin's theatre before forming the BPP.

He starred in Come Next Summer,1965.



Black Dialogue Magazine brothers,

Aubrey Labrie, Marvin, Abdul Sabry,

Al Young, Arthur Sheridan and Duke

Williams. Black Dialogue was one of the critical journals of the Black Arts

Movement.
















Poet Ptah Mitchell, Marvin, drummer Kwic Time



Black Man Listen was published

by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press,

Detroit.








Black Fire, edited by Larry Neal

and Amiri Baraka was the Bibl

of the 60s Black Arts Movement.



























Marvin at Academy of

da Corner with grandson,

Jah Amiel



Mumia Abu Jamal called Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality

"an encyclopedia of knowledge."