Birthday Love Poem for Hurriyah Asar (Ethna X), Queen of the West Coast Black Arts/Liberation Movement, 75

 Birthday Love Poem for Hurriyah Asar (Ethna X) 75

Hurriyah Asar (Ethna X), on her land, Beaufort, South Carolina, tending to her fowl: chickens,

turkeys, ducks, doves, etc., feeding and healing them all; fighting off predators, i.e., snakes,

coons, hawks, gators, etc.

Cerca 1965, San Francisco:Hurriyah Asar, aka Ethna X Wyatt of Chicago, at Black Arts West Theatre, associated with co-founders: Marvin X, Hillary X Broadous, Duncan X Barber, Ed Bullins, Carl Bossiere, Danny Glover, Vonetta McGee, et al., including musicians Donald Rafael Garrett, Dewey Redman, Oliver Johnson, BJ, Monte Waters (Big Band), et al. 

photo from Black Dialogue Magazine, Fox Section.

Left to Right: Nisa Ra (former wife of Marvin X and mother of their daughter Muhammida El Muhajir), Sister Zoharah (a disciple of His Holiness Guru Bawa), Marvin X and Hurriyah Asar, Houston Hall, University of Penn, Philly PA, Black Love Lives Conference, produced by Nisa Ra and Muhammida El Muhajir.

Birthday Love Poem for Hurriyah Asar, aka, Ethna X, 75

Wow, men slow or what

1965 til’ 2020

can’t remember your b day September 2

Glad we talked September 1 2020

praise be Most High we talk

but want low down dirty truth?

too many Virgo lovers

Some virgo lovers same b day

confusion

Which way is up, Richard Pryor said!

Hurriyah lover like no other

sweet love

Yr 21 b day love

remember

hot fillmore

Page street love

young

full of cum

revolutionary love

black revolutionary nationalist love

fire bomb love

destroy america love

attack white/black lovers on bus

no respect black/white love

integration love dead

you march on Washington love

Me west coast Malcolm X black love

No MLK Jr

we shall overcome

Malcolm X black love

7, 000 students

UC Sproul Hall '64

black to bone

summer of love

black love lives summer love

haight street summer love

no love

Vietnam no love

Viet Cong no call me nigger love

hurriyah friend say come over

meet somebody

fbi nigga say

what you want

what you need

money

guns what

fbi nigga

fuck you bitch

leave house

Hurriyah

nigga slow or what

you slow too

confused east coast lover

married him

soon ran to me

Toronto, Canada

exiled

no vietnam

fuck vietnam

Viet Cong never call me nigger

met with Vietnam National Liberation Front in Toronto

brothers in liberation

adultery sweet

'cept money funny

can't pay pussy bill

oh well

rented room from Salome Bey (Sister singer Andy Bey)

Hurriyah soon gone

home to Chicago

no money no honey

can't pay pussy bill

get real

Hurriyah wrote from Chicago

Sent poet Don L. Lee book

Think Black

Hurriyah say

come to Chicago

Sun Ra taught

Don't follow a woman

but I did

underground to Detroit

then Chitown

hawk winter

after Canada fuck a hawk

After Ottawa and Montreal

fuck a hawk

Lake Michigan hawk ain't shit

said to self

"If all these Chicago niggas can deal with hawk

so can I

Cottage Grove hawk

Loop hawk

Northside hawk

57th Kimbark hawk

Blackstone Ranger turf hawk

Chicago Defender dead nigga daily hawk

rats big as cats hawk

love Chicago crew

Don L Lee

Gwen Brooks

Carolyn Rogers

Hoyt Fuller

Art Ensemble (Came to Black House, San Francisco, 1967)

Muhammad Speaks

Richard Durham

Herbert Muhammad

Jilted my love more than once

sick crazy me

my love juices sweeter than wine

drink love all night long

eat her love food

love juice pours from her body

you are what you eat

I eat her love twice daily

Cayenne hot

ginger sweet

Turmeric

healing love

mint rising in the night love

I am drunk on my love

addicted

niggas say sprung

my lover hates nigga word

but I Cali nigga

don't mean same as midwest, dirty south nigga

Hurriyah hate bitch most of all

but when kids out of control

she say bitch!

Fought co-wives over bitch

This my night bitch

12 midnight my time starts

Hurriyah’s love

Beyond kiss touch stroke 

beyond honey bees in hives

 

No matter

Adultery, fornication

in exile

Polygamy too

back in Babylon USA

She had her lovers too

ain’t no thang

When king busy

queens too

Better ax somebody

named you freedom

Hurriyah

Free woman

Independent

Land owning woman

I came to your island land

Writing each day as tide came in

Interrupted by tasks you demanded

Clean chicken coop

Gather feed ducks

landing from North, South America

loved watching

You nurse sick baby chicks

mother back to life

Earth Mother working

Ethna X

African Market Woman Supreme

Bay Area loves you

Dominated Berkeley Flea Market

General Store Model copied by all

you long gone

GULLAHLAND

SOUTH CAROLINA

ROBERT SMALL LAND

YORUBA AFRICAN VILLAGE LAND

I write in peace

as tide comes in and out

heaven land

peace day night

no matter mosquitoes

no matter them "can't see" motherfuckers

Oh love Hurriyah

San Francisco Summer of Love

Weed lovers

LSD lovers

Black Nationalist

Black Arts West Theatre Fillmore Street lovers

South Carolina now

cherish memories

warriors gone and forgotten

Remember Eldridge Cleaver

Bunchy Carter

Ron Karenga

Emory

Amina and Amiri

Amina never forgets what you told woman at door of Black House when she said she was European and Native American.

Amina said you told her, "Native American can come in, the European got to go!"

Remember when I took Eldridge to meet Bobby Seale

to get him out of our hair

though he was paying Black House rent from

Soul on Ice advance royalties

then

Lil' Bobby Hutton came with message from Supreme Commander Huey

I told Lil' Bobby, "Fuck da Supreme Commander!"

Lil' Bobby said, "We go deal wit you dude!"

Panthers clicked automatic weapons outside our room all night long

remember

click click click

click click click

45 automatic

click click click

shotgun

click click click

click click click

we didn't give a fk

just like Panthers

we fearless crazy too

didn't give a fuck.

we survived

praise be to allah

Across from our room

Eldridge and BPP

plotted invasion of Sacramento

changed history

Negroes with Guns

Robert and Mabel Williams style

better ax somebody

 

In Gullahland

predators come for your fowl

Chickens ducks turkeys pigeons doves

Snakes wiggle coops

Coons fearless fight your dogs

your door open

coons march in

Devour dog food/chicken feed

door open

Rooster/ hen come inside

hen lay eggs on couch

Rooster guard door

pimp in da hood

you come to my room

Disturb me with love talk

attention

woman satisfaction

Seduce me

coy woman game

leave computer for your love

Eternal love

Not friend with perks

friend for life

When all lovers gone

Mine as well

may we call upon each other

for final kiss hug embrace.

Hapi b day

Queen of Black Arts and Liberation!

--Marvin X

9/1/20

The North American African Democratic People's Republic, Dream or Reality?

l love Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party because they came from the grass roots of Oakland to international standing. Look at Huey embracing world revolutionaries, Chinese Premier Cho En Li, PLO leader Yassar Arafat, et al. What a journey from the streets of  Oakland to world recognition! Wow!We love you Dr. Huey P. Newton. You could have remained a thug on the streets of Oakland, but you and the Black Panther Party sisters and brothers transcended the streets of Oakland to join the global Liberation Movement. You said I was your teacher and maybe I did teach you a thing or two about drama, for sure Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver learned from me, but the most important thing I learned from you was fearlessness, the first lesson any revolutionary must learn!

--Marvin X, Co-Founder, National Black Arts Movement, Co-Founder, Black Arts Movement Business

District, Oakland CA

Huey represented North American Africans in China. What punk bitch nigguhs have the nerve to represent North American Africans in China today? Can they represent us in Palestine, Vietnam, North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and elsewhere? They claim they Pan African but do they represent North American Africans in the global community?

BPP co-founder Huey P. Newton embracing Yasir Arafat, leader of Palestine. Marvin X said, "We support Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian call for nationhood. We North American Africans desire the same!"

 
During his exile, Cleaver met North Vietnamese General
Giap who defeated America in Vietnam. Cleaver was Black man as world revolutionary man, 

no matter his "negrocities" (Amiri Baraka term), i.e., contradictions.

When Eldridge Cleaver returned from exile as a Born Again Christian, I traveled with him throughout the Western hemisphere, America, Canada, Jamaica. After giving his testimony about finding Jesus Christ in the moon, the white Christians would embrace him and confess they used to hate him and Blacks in general but since they were Born Again, they no longer hated him nor Blacks. On one occasion the police confessed they had murder squads who killed Panthers in particular and Blacks in general.  The pigs and Cleaver embraced, both exclaiming, "Praise the Lord!"

Black August Hip Hop Benefit Concert 2020

 

Burn Baby Burn

Burn, Baby, Burn

Tired.
Sick an' tired
Tired of being
sick an' tired.

Lost.
Lost in the wilderness
of white america
are the masses asses?
cool said the master to the slave,
"No problem, don't rob an' steal,
I'll be your drivin wheel."

Cool.
And he wheeled us into 350 years
of black madness

to hog guts, conked hair, covadis
bleaching cream and uncle thomas
to Watts.
To the streets.
To the kill.
Boommm...2 honkeys gone.
Motherfuck the police
Parker's sista too.
Black people.
Tired.
sick an' tired.
tired of being
sick an' tired.
Burn, baby burn...
Don't leave dem boss rags
C'mon, child, don't mind da tags.
Git all dat motherfuckin pluck,
Git dem guns too, we 'on't give a fuck!
Burn baby burn
Cook outta sight

Fineburgs
whitefront
wineburgs
blackfront
burn, baby, burn
in time
he
will learn.

--Marvin X (Jackmon)
1965
from Soulbook Magazine, Fall, 1965

Print Edition Black Bird Press News and Review, Special Bambdfest/Black August 2020

 

How to Recover from the Addiction to White supremacy (Type II)

 HOW TO RECOVER FROM THE ADDICTION TO WHITE SUPREMACY BY MARVIN X

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

--Ishmael Reed, Lecturer Emeritus, UC Berkeley

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

--Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University

"Marvin X has always been in the forefront of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is one of the founders and innovators of the revolutionary school of African writing."

--Ancestor Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Arts Movement Co-founder

Black Bird Press has just reprinted Marvin X's classic How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy: A Pan African 12-Step Model for a Mental Health Peer Group, foreword by Dr. Nathan Hare. The police lynching of George Floyd has rocked the consciousness of human beings around the world, but the problem has existed for centuries, from the slave catchers to the police of today. And North American Africans suffer internal violence as well. It is this latter issue that concerns this manual for a mental health peer group, based on the AA 12-Step model, revised for addiction to white supremacy Type II, as described by Dr. Nathan Hare. The officer(s) who lynched George Floyd under the color of law, suffer Addiction to White Supremacy Type I, while George suffered Type II. Whites who suffer Type I must work out their problems, and North American Africans, and African throughout the Diaspora, must find the way to recover from Type II, for we are in many ways "the other white people." Blond wigs and weaves, bleaching cream and attraction to European values of materialism, reveal we are black men and women dipped in chocolate, as Marvin X was told by a young man. Marvin X revises the AA 12-Step model for our purposes, adding the 13th Step: discovery. After all, after recovery shall we attend meetings forever as if we have traded one drug for another. After recovery, we must discover our mission is the liberation of our people throughout the Pan-African world.

In Wretched. of the Earth, Dr. Fran Fanon told us, and Dr. Nathan Hare (Black Anglo Saxons) concurs that the only way the oppressed people can maintain their mental equilibrium is through radical action for true and lasting freedom from all forms of oppression, although white supremacy is the most cunning and vile drug in the world, addicting entire nations and continents.

In his Foreword, Dr. Nathan Hare says, "Who knows, but it may be that Dr. M's (as he calls Marvin X) movement of recovery from addiction to and from white supremacy is offering us a final and effective change to begin to "sit down together" to get together and get our heads together...."

Dr. Mark Christian compares Marvin X to Walter Rodney, Steve Biko, Frances Cress Welsing, Bobby Wright, Nathan Hare and Dr. E. Franklin Frazier. "What I am most impressed with is Dr. M's Pan-Africanist perspective.

How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy is not a book to read but a manual to work. As they say in recovery meetings, "It works if you work it! 

Detoxification from White Supremacy
Twelve Steps (13)
Step 1: We are not powerless over self-hatred, racism white supremacy thinking but our lives have become unmanageable
Step 2: We have come to believe that a power within ourselves can restore us to sanity
Step 3: We have made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
Step 4:We shall make a searching and fearless moral inventory
Step 5: Admitted to God within and without the exact nature of our wrongs
Step 6: We are entirely ready to have God remove defects of character
Step 7: We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings
Step 8: Make a list of all Africans and others we have harmed
Step 9: Make direct amends to such people
Step 10: Continue to take personal inventory
Step 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God
Step 12: Carry the message to the Pan African world and other humans in the global community
Step 13: Discover Pan African consciousness and join the cultural revolution

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