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Poem for Nikki Giovanni

Oh I love

Beautiful black women

Intelligent

Spiritual

Sexual

Bold

Aggressive

Dirty south women especially

Big H women

Picked me up at my daughter's house

Told my daughter

"I'm taking your dad out

I'll bring him back in the morning!"

Ain't ask me shit

Bold

Take care of a nigga

Southern style

Like Carolyn

Winston Salem NC

I'm drunk

With August Wilson Amiri Baraka

Whispered in her ear

"Can I go home with you?"

"Come on!"

Stayed seven months

Wrote autobiography

Thanks Carolyn

Appreciate you

Cali girls no match

Love Call girls too

Gave me beautiful children

Never raised my voice never

Never whipped them

Mother's discipline

Despite no good father me

Abusive crazy poet

Lost in imagination

Traveling Space Ways

Sun Ra style

Beyond time

Love you

Beautiful black women

Hate you

For spoiling me rotten

Mother in law said

"Who dat nigga

Think he is

King Tut?"

Love you

Beautiful black women!

--MARVIN X

Can a black man hold a stop sign

Can a black man hold a stop sign in Oakland

A stop sign

Mexicans can

Women

White men

Can a black man hold a stop sign

stop gentrification

Speed it up

Whatever

Stop

Black lives Matter stop

Must he be PhD

to hold stop sign

Remember Post office

Only job for PhD Negro

Can a black man hold stop sign

For developments

He can't afford to live in

Wave sign up and down

Stop

He won't show up on time

After pay day?

Pants on behind

Holding stop sign?

---Marvin X

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Marvin X on the rights/rites of women

If truth be told, and it must, many religious based myth-rituals must be cast into the dustbin of history. Aspects of patriarchal manhood and womanhood rites of passage are archaic and dehumanizing and female genital mutilation is chief among them. Why should women be deprived the pleasure of their clitoris? Only a man would originate such a myth-ritual. It is past time for men to stay out of the affairs of women. It is her body, not man's. What right do men have  determining what women do with their bodies, whether it is deprivation of sexual pleasure or abortion? I'm against abortion, but it is none of my business! If you are against abortion, don't put your seed into a woman who is pro-abortion!
--MARVIN X

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Parable of the man who went to Ignutville

There was a man who traveled to Stupidville on his way to Ignutville. In Stupidville he observed people doing the most stupid shit imaginable. They talked stupid shit, did stupid shit, lived stupid lives, went to the malls to buy stupid shit, came home and made stupid love in the dark without saying a stupid word to each other. Why say shit to a stupid motherfucker?

The man departed Stupidville and traveled on to Ignutville. After observing the people in Ignutville, he went into shock and was taken to the hospital. After a few days he was released and continued his observation of the citizens of ignutville.

They didn't know the time of day, the year. Didn't know they were slaves and/or descendents of slaves. After all they drove bigger cars than the slave master. While the slave master drove Fords and Toyotas, the slaves drove Escalades and Masaraties, yes, even while they lived in the projects.

If the master knew nothing else, he knew he was white, but the slave wasn't sure if he was black African or white European in black face. He loved the white Jesus, worshipped the white woman standard of beauty. His ignut woman loved wearing a blond wig and in the deep structure of her mind, she wanted her man to be a white man. She would be satisfied if he would become a white man dipped in chocolate. She was so ignut she called 911 so the white man, her real man, would rescue her from any abuse her black man inflicted on her, whether verbal, emotional, spiritual and/or physical. 

The white man was her true husband, boyfriend, lover, protector. Such was the level of ignorance in Ignutville.

Parents were so ignut in Ignutville, they sent their children to public schools where the enemy could teach their children the proper white supremacy mis-education. They sent their children to white colleges and universities, then were shocked when their children came home hating them and everything they were about even though the ignut children didn't even know what their parents were about.

The parents didn't understand the children had been taught they were nothing ass black nigga students who were so ignut they couldn't think logically or write coherently. Some of the students suffered mental breakdowns. When the students came home, parents knew their children were not the same. They suspected their children were on drugs.

The ignut parents never imagined their children were in full blown addiction to white supremacy. 

The man fled Ignutville trying to figure out how to get to Saneville. He called upon his GPS device to guide him to Saneville.

--Marvin X

7-28-29

Photo Essay Marvin X by Adam Turner

Save the date, early bird tickets on eventbrite: In Conversation, Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X

Marvin X Speaks, autographs books at Marin City Juneteenth

Marvin X speaks and autographs Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter at 

Marin City Juneteenth, Saturday, June 29, 2019

 Marvin X speaks, Third Baptist Church, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner

3rd Annual Marin City Juneteenth Community Festival 2019

415-332-1441 / 415-299-2554

freedom 

Saturday, June 29, 2019- 10am-6:30pm

A Special Place

The Marin City Festival is special. Set in a natural grove of trees, intimate yet dynamic. A perfect place to get out of the race.  A  time to relax with friends. Bring a lounge chair and blanket. Support local merchants.  Celebrate our theme:

ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS: INTERNATIONAL

Our Food Vendors serve up a diverse selection of delicious meals, beverages and desserts.

 

Delicious Food...Art...Fashion & More

Jewelry, fashion, crafts, music, local & celebrity talent, Childcare with games, jumping tent and more. We encourage attendees to support our local businesses by spending, a minimum of $25 on food and $100 for goods.

Inspirational Entertainment

Talented performers share Spoken Word and historical tributes. An "Open Mic"provides space for locals to shine, along with our Juneteenth Vendor "commercials" which will compel you to purchase their goods & services over corporate competitors.

There is no cost to attend the Festival

However, we offer VIP seating for those desiring a catered experience. 

Reserved seating, meal/beverage voucher. 

Wait service and a reserved parking space. 

$125 per couple. $75 Single.

Treat yourself or a beloved elder with special needs.

More Information

Theme: Economic Connections-International

Juneteeth is a holiday commemorating the political end to over 400 years of legalized mass enslavement, an institution that created a legacy of systemic economic imbalance.  

We aspire to heal this imbalance by creating an African Marketplace where goods and services are lovingly offered in a spirit of  Pan-Africanism and Economic Liberation.  

Questions?

oshalla@juneteenthcommunityfestival.info

Marin City Juneteenth Community Festival

A Project of the Marin City Community Services District

Location

530 Drake Avenue. Marin City, CA. 94965

 Behind Rocky Graham Park.  Parking available on site or nearby.

Review by Marvin X: Last Black Man in San Francisco

 Danny Glover, grandfather

 The Nigga Greek Chorus

 Jimmy Fails as Jimmy and co-writer

 Jimmy Fails and Johnathan Majors as Jimmy and Mont

 Tichina Arnold as Aunti

Last weekend, writer Cecil Brown stopped by my Academy of da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland, and asked if I'd seen Last Black Man in San Francisco? I replied that I hadn't and he said he hadn't either, but from what he'd heard, it was the gentrification of gentrification, referring to the white director,Joe Talbot, although co-written by Rob Reichert and Jimmy Fails, also the co-star. Cecil Brown was saying the process of the  production itself was gentrified, and it certainly was, e.g., European music dominated the soundtrack of a film essentially about hip hop characters, although the film was definitely inter-generational, including a mythic ancestor grandfather, who supposedly built a Victorian house in the 1940s when the wave of North American Africans migrated West to work in the war industry and replaced Japanese in the Fillmore when they were put in concentration camps.

Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails are the main characters, Mont and Jimmy respectively. Like many North American Africans disconnected from their history, we often construct mythology to placate our psychological trauma that transcends amnesia which assumes we forgot, but Dr. Nathan Hare says we simply never knew, as any victim of physical trauma is unable to recall what happened to them. Jimmy comes to believes, or rather constructs the myth that his grandfather built the house but eventually deed history reveals it was constructed a hundred years before, as a tour guide attempted to tell his group.

During probate by the white owners, Mont and Jimmy occupy the house but are forced to move when a "friendly" real estate agent puts it up for sale. Before they depart, Mont produces a play in the house that reveals the myth Jimmy has been living by at which point Jimmy declares he must be the last black man in San Francisco because all his relatives are living precariously or have departed.

This film about brotherly and family love has value as North American Africans are being gentrified coast to coast. But as Tina Turner said, "What's love got to do with it?"

We don't expect film writers to be sociologists and city planners, so although we appreciate the film, it presents the problem but no solution, and perhaps there is none when the median cost of a home in San Francisco is 1.4 million dollars. Will any amount of creative financing solve problem of affordability? Most certainly, a livable wage won't!

And most especially, a communal problem will not be solved with an individual solution. We know films must be focused, and although we can deduct from the specific to the general, we need to see that the severity of the problem is communal.



We recently celebrated the memorial of Wade "Speedy" Woods, and I titled my story on him as "The Last Fillmore Revolutionary Negro". Ironically, as per this film, Speedy headed WAPAC, the Fillmore or Western Addition
Project Area Committee, a redevelopment agency that tried to save, and did save, many of the Victorians like the one depicted in Last Black Man in San Francisco. If I were to write a film on Speedy, it would reveal his efforts to save community as opposed to a narrative of him as an individual. He did have a team! And WAPAC save some elements of the Fillmore, but we must note that years later as the Fillmore, aka, Harlem of the West, suffered gentrification, former Mayor Joe Alioto publically apologized for "destroying the cultural and economic vitality of the Fillmore."

Left to write, SFSU BSU co-founders Mar'yam, Danny Glover and Marvin X.
Danny portrayed Jimmy's grandfather in Last Black Man in SF.

As was noted in the Rolling Stone review, Last Black Man floated between fantasy and documentary, or mythology and reality, and this is okay, except our condition is so critical, do we have time for fantasy? We are being moved on and thus we are on the move. The film revealed our desperate straits, from family members to the hopeless Greek chorus on the corner in the hills of Hunters Point, to the sick white people in downtown San Francisco who want nudity as a normality. They have even opened a cafe where they can enjoy rats as they eat and drink!

SF Mayor London Breed at SF Juneteenth in the Fillmore

photo Marvin X

As we came off the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, we noted the skyscrapers under construction, then wondered how city planners can approve these constructions without giving equity to the displaced with affordable housing and living wages? Nevertheless, our beloved Mayor London Breed spoke at the Fillmore Juneteenth and assured the crowd of North American African we would not suffer the fate of the Last Black Man in San Francisco! We shall survive, the Mayor assured  the crowd!
--Marvin X
6/23/19