Marvin X and Akhbar Muhammad
Mythology Defined
Myth is all there is, like air, without myth we cannot breathe,
therefore we die. Myth is the essence of religion. There are no rituals without
myth--myth is the story, the word, hence the foundation of ritual. We take the
myth and create the drama as in the original Osirian drama of resurrection,
first the story then the enactment of the story, followed by the absorption of
myth into the social-psychology of a people. Myth then becomes the foundation
of culture, the purpose of existence and the goal of after-life.
Yes, culture is all that we do but all that we do is based on the
myths we live by. When we suggest transcending myth it is an awesome challenge
to the psyche and thus to the society. What white person wants to give up the
myth of white supremacy. It is the essence of their being. Shall they become
black? But black is not simply a color, it is a culture that is bound by myth
as well. When we suggest giving up myth, we realize the task is daunting, for
what shall a person stand upon, what rock, what reality?
We want the schools to change but again it shall involve
dismantling the American mythology, all the lies, stories, dreams, holidays,
statues, images, symbols that abound the society--in short, a decolonialization
must occur—or call it detoxification. The teachers cannot teach a different way
because they are victims of myth as well, trapped in their madness which is the
essence of all they have been taught and certified to teach.
The black American psychologists are grappling with the problem of
myth as I write. At their last national conference in Oakland they spoke about
casting out Eurocentric psychology and returning to the ancient African healing
philosophy. They want to transcend European psychotherapy for a more holistic
approach that will embrace the entire being of the spiritually ill person, for
sure, the mental is related to the physical to the social to the political to
the economic. But as with education, how shall the mental health workers get
certified to teach African healing when they have been trained in Eurocentric
psychology? And what is the mythological foundation of African healing?
Imagine throwing out white education, but the question is can they
heal the black mind with white psychology? As much as we applaud the
psychotherapeutic peer group approach, prescribed in my manual How to Recover
from the Addiction to White Supremacy, even the peer group is not sufficient
unless the group bonds together in a holistic manner to overcome the myriad
ills due to oppression.
The myth of love is an example of how we are entrapped in
mythology. Love becomes an ever changing illusion based on materialism and
economic security, thus it is a physical thing that in the end causes us to
cry, "What does love have to do with it?" But in reality love is all
there is. God is Love! Yet we spend a lifetime seeking that which is our
essence. Surely we must be on the wrong path or in the wrong house of love. And
after a lifetime with the beloved, we wonder was it in vain, a waste of energy,
a pitiful existence with a beloved who hated our guts, was jealous, envious,
greedy, yet this was our mate, this was us.
And so detoxification is in order to begin our recovery from sick
mythology. We resist and deny anything is amiss but we must summon the strength
to make a change, to jump out the box toward a brighter day. We fight leaving
the comfort zone for it is all we know, like the slaves upon emancipation:
where shall we go, what shall we do without the master? He was our everything,
our god, our lover, our enforcer, our rapist even. But deconstructing alien
mythology is the only way out, just as the dope fiend must stop using dope upon
the pain of death. Now some choose death, the die-hards who claim dope is the
best thing that ever happened to them. So they are not satisfied until they
fall into the pit. The society addicted to sick mythology is no better than the
common dope fiend. It is determined to commit mass suicide. America is not
alone in this manner. It is the same with Israel, North Korea, Iran and
elsewhere. Mythology (call it ideology if you wish) will be the final
determinant of the political actions in the above nations.
Will they transcend their mythology and live or persist in their
inordinacy until they die? The sooner we get beyond myth into a progressive,
radical and revolutionary state of mind, the better we shall all be. But it
would be a step forward if we simply stopped believing in the superiority of myth.
This notion of superiority is probably worse than the myth itself. The myth of
white supremacy is no better or worse than other myths, but the problem is when
whites want to spread their myth and force it upon others who have their own
mythology.
As far as I am concerned, let the whites in the American south
keep their confederate flag, just don’t subject it upon me and my people. Keep
that shit in yo house, your church or wherever you dwell and I don’t. And if I
fly the Star and Crescent, leave me the hell alone. But let’s go deeper into
the world of myth for a story is composed of words, thus we must consider
linguistics or language when attempting to transcend myth, for the devil is in
the language. We may therefore find ourselves in need of a new language in
order to transcend myth, for we speak a mythical language, and just as we do
not understand the mythology, we do not understand the language. To have a
common language suggests we have agreed upon definitions, but again, what do
you mean by love, and are you prepared to love your enemy? Can you love
yourself, and who or what is yourself? Who is the black self, what is it?
We grappled with this problem in the 60s in trying to define a
black esthetic. What is beauty and truth to us? Suddenly the Negro was ugly and
black was beautiful, and for a moment there was a consensus and a people moved
forward. And then came the breakdown and the consensus was gone. The natural
hair style was no longer en vogue. Ugly became beautiful. Ugly was freedom,
although we never got a consensus on what freedom meant, nor do we have one
today. What is freedom to you is not freedom to me. You say freedom is a job,
and that’s the totality of your freedom. Other people fight for land, natural
resources, self determination, but you say just give you a job and you are
satisfied. So how can we unite?
You say freedom is having sex between persons of the same sex.
Nothing else matters to you in life. But we ask what does sex have to do with
it? Were you put aboard the slave ships so you could have sex with the same
gender loving persons, is this why your ancestors suffered in the cotton and
cane fields, was it for sexual freedom, or what is possibly something that went
far beyond pussy and dick, getting a nut in the dark or in some alley,
bathroom, park? Again, we need to define some terms before we can move forward
into the new era. Let’s list some terms and define them—and how can we do this
when terms are ever shifting, for language is dynamic and fluid, Negro,
Colored, black, African, Bilalian, Moorish, et al. We are forever changing our
identity because we cannot come to a consensus as a people. At least the white
people know they are white, they may not know anything else, but they know they
are white.
You don’t know if you are black or white, man or woman—for the
sands are constantly shifting under your feet—the result of your insecurity,
personal and communal. It is an identity crisis of the most profound degree
imaginable. So myth is composed with language, from myth to ritual, from ritual
to reality, but language is the foundation. The child’s world only becomes real
when it takes command of its “mother tongue.” Within the mother tongue is myth
which is composed of surface and deep structure terminology and meaning, the said
and the unsaid, the seen and the unseen.
We are that child that has yet to master language, hence our world
is chaos without solid, safe and secure definitions, leading us not to know
what is real and unreal, a confusion of self and kind. We are not certain our
brother is a friend or foe. We are not sure if our mate is friend or foe, lover
or hater. In a moment of passion we may hear words we never thought was in the
heart of our lover, or we may use such words ourselves. Now there is more doubt
and insecurity in an already fragile relationship, that more than likely
originated in lust rather than anything that can be called love. And so we see
the task before us, a psycho-linguistic mythological conundrum that will take
centuries to resolve since in the global village our mythology is bound with
other mythological tribes and nations, some of which seek our life blood.
We may be forced out of our slumber to shed the old raggedy
clothes of worn out mythology, whether religious or political, sexual or social.
Elijah told us the wisdom of this world is exhausted—one need only look around
and listen to the language, the babble blowing in the wind, in spite of all the
technology, all the human advancement. Surely, in spite of it all, reverse
evolution has set in, a kind of atrophy, a freezing of the mental apparatus, a
paralysis of thought while the very hour challenges us with the need for grand
vision to make that great leap forward into the new millennium.--Marvin X
Don't Say Pussy
Don’t say pussy
just beat your woman half to death
because you own her
she yo private property
don't say pussy
just gang rape from America to Africa
from the streets of Richmond to the DA's office
don't say pussy
that's a nasty word
just cut off clitoris
it's African tradition
and we african to the bone
don't say pussy
let AIDS infect the world
but don't say pussy
say vagina
cunt
anything but pussy
say cat
dog
boo
anything but pussy
nastiest word in creation
we presume
don't say pussy
just be a church ho
jezebel in the temple
don't say pussy
people might understand
it's a woman's body not man's
not his pussy but hers
24/7 she owns it
you don't have a pussy
you don't have a pussy
pussy man
get the concept baby boy
now you got 25 to life for rape
don't say pussy
say asshole from now on
don't say pussy
abuse yo wife cause she gave up some
to yo buddy
only after you fucked her best friend
but don't say pussy
cause you own it
paid for it
got it legal
not in the alley
in yo house
so abuse it accuse it
but don't say it
send yo woman to the hospital
two black eyes
why not kill her cause she gave it up
in a revenge fuck
you taught her to say
"You don't have no evidence
I gave it up"
you told her that many times
on yo pussy runs
but don't say pussy
in anger management class
court mandated
since you so warped
wanna beat her
why not beat the white man
beat yo boss
not yo woman, yo pussy
you love so much
but it's gone now
ain't coming back
you so crude and rude
don't say pussy
just think about it.
think about who taught you pussy was dirty, nasty
the church, the pope, the bishop fucking little boys
what he know bout pussy
ain't pussy God's mother
holy Mary mother of God
who taught you pussy was nasty, funky
was it religions of men
wanting control of women and the fruit of their womb
control of property
control of the world
who are these men
did they come from women
did women teach them this madness
was it her breast milk
her kindness
wiping their asses
snotty noses
was it mama's hands taught them this
yet they hate pussy
will beat it to death, throw it in the Bay, on the roadside, in the woods
in the backyard, in the wall
what kind of people are these
constructing a world to hate pussy
the very thing that gave them life
won't let it be free
want to cage it box it handcuff it tie it up in the closet
what manner of man is this
what beast what cave animal what dog
still cave acting in the modern world
actually hating that which he loves
some kind of schizophrenic devil
can't do without pussy for five minutes
he wants to cum
wants some head
wants some yeah pussy
wants some ass
wants wants wants
but hates hates hates pussy
a sick man really
go to the pussy doctor
not the gyno but the psycho
talk to him bout yo problem
why you so warped demented deranged
want to get violent over her pussy
that you can't own no matter what the papers say
no matter how much you pay on yo pussy bill
you can't own it dog
don't think you own it for a minute cause you don't you can't
it's not yours to own baby boy
get a life a real life in a hurry
before the end of the world
don't you see it coming
and you still stuck on stupid
go be dead in this life
dead in the hereafter
be careful
pussy gives life and pussy takes life
you can't beat it
too strong
you lose in the end
pussy always wins
pussy bad
better ax somebody.
go get a healing!
