Friday, August 6, 2021

A Poetic Letter to the Taliban

 

Afghan workers rush home after news broke that the Taliban had reached the outskirts of Kabul. [EPA]


Marvin X reading at the University of Chicago, 2015

photo Burrell Sunrise




Western savages and mountain men of Afghanistan

twenty year battle royal of nothingness dread

Western savages  departed repeat drama of Vietnam

Taliban victors now 

Didn't "Viet Cong" say, "The spirit of the people

greater than enemy technology."

Afghanistan mountain men no history of defeat

Alexander the Great's fled down mountains

Like Sisyphus,British, Russians, American crusaders 

flee mountain land with dicks in hand

can't defeat mountain men 

20 years trillion  dollars down for nothing burgers no victory


We ain't mad at you Taliban

kicked white man ass for fun

Now time for collaborators sycophants translators 

please spare women girls

mountain caves

Allah gave women girls brains too

Didn't Prophet Muhammad marry working woman

rich intelligent Khadijah

didn't he cry on bosom of Khadijah when revelation came

He liberated women justice fairness 

even in polygamy he said

If you can't treat them equal

and you can't 

leave polygamy alone

Oh Taliban why you want ignorant women half your nation

You are not in Prophet's time never shall be

Come from mental caves 

Muhammad raised you from Ya'um Jahiliyyah, days of ignorance

you return like hog to slop

The Prophet commanded Iqra bismillahi

la jahiliyyah 

iqra iqra 

read in the name of your Lord recite

Qur'an Hadith Sharia not end of knowledge

Iqra Ayat Al Kursi, The Verse of Knowledge

Prophet said Seek knowledge from Spain to China

heard of Moorish Spain

oldest mosque in China

Muslim science ruled world beyond Qur'an Hadith Sharia

where your numbers come from cave man of Europe

Moorish Spain taught you to bathe shower brush your teeth 

gave you knowledge to escape from Dark Ages

into Renaissance

No dark ages in Africa Egypt Timbuktu 

Golden Age of scholars scientists 

heard of Ahmad Baba

Mansa Musa richest man in the world

put Gates Bezos to shame

Oh Taliban and niggas in the hood too

Yeah, you Taliban low information vibration negroes

Pull up your minds and your asses shall follow

Oh Taliban you come from womb with AK47

Plenty guns from Americans, Russians Pakistanis

tanks, trucks, bombs bullets

Shall you turn victory into loss

Do not slay your brothers in the name of dogmatic religiosity

sectarian mythology shall not prevail

only sirata al mustaqim

straight path

Shall you behead brothers sisters fathers mothers who don't agree 

reject your interpretation 

Are you in league with Nigerian barbarians Boku Haram

Oh Taliban you murder in the of Allah

The world is tired of bloody streets  burning villages roadside bombs

farmers can't grow crops animals can't graze in grass

wars for broken bones hearts minds consume too many lands

give peace a chance

Oh Taliban you marched into Kabul today

don't turn victory into loss

Look at your women children in their eyes

exhausted from war death destruction misery

American depart for other wars other lands

Al humdulilah you stopped the opium

Abyad Shaitan made it flow

Now Abyad Shaitan go

who shall fill vacuum 

Iran  

Chinese People's Army 

Call Loya Jirga assemble tribes ethic groups 

Share land with brothers sisters or destroy victory

Hubris makes men of victory men of tragedy

Prophet Muhammad man of destiny

walk in footsteps of Prophet Muhammad

Did Muhammad enslave or set free

Didn't he free Bilal, first Muezzin

cried Al Ahad Al Ahad Al Ahad

Allah the One 

Oh Taliban 

Does Qur'an Hadith Sharia say make love to little boys in madrassas

Haram

shall you marry girls not yet women

Haram

This not Qur'an Hadith Sharia

Ya'm Jahiliyah 

Light  Darkness don't mix

men walk in dark claim they in light

actions reveal darkness of souls

Afghanistan woman said father raped her

then went to Juma'ah salat on front row

father daughter fucker

wretched customs in your land 

like tribalism everywhere

beyond civility humanity 

below beasts 

Oh, Taliban, so right you wrong, so holy you ugly dirty funky

we applaud you defeating crusaders

Allahu Akhbar Allahu Akhbar Allahu Akhbar

Oh Taliban 

don't be devoid of Allah's mercy Rahim

Oh, Taliban make your people happy

let peace love freedom justice 

flow through your precious land

mountains valleys streams

Let Afghanistan live her dreams

 --Marvin X/El Muhajir

8/6/21

Revised 8/15/21







God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, No More Water, Fire Next Time!

God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign, No More Water, Fire Next Time

by Marvin X

Marvin X, poet, planner, playwright, publisher, editor, essayist, philosopher, organizer, educator
photo Alicia Mayo

The smarter than God people say God is dead
Words of prophets poppycock
fishing tales of old men
too old to sin
What does God know
Babylon not falling
no haven of every filthy unclean bird
What did Isa Ibn Mar-yam know
about beginning of sorrows
earthquakes in diverse places
famine, drought fire and water
consuming the wicked and righteous who hang around
Those who worship the beast shall be destroyed with the beast
What Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver say
You part of the problem or part of solution
Like Malcolm X said you house negroes more loyal to the beast
than he is to himself
Boss we sick?
You bitch ass foot warmer nigga neo slave pseudo African American
good loyal democratic party votin' nigga
boss we sick nigga
no nigga you sick bitch
better get a healin'
go talk with trees breeze rivers seas
Yemonja help dis sick nigga think he smarter than God
bathe him in your river of love
Yemonja make this zombe come to his natural self 
Master Sun Ra said worship Nature's God
Creator God
Guru Bawa said you in God God in you
what part you don't understand fool
Oh, you cling to god of dead crucified resurrected ascended
You mean Osirus and the 16 Crucified Saviors before Jesus
(read Kersey Graves book)

Smarter than God people say
as they spout pseudo wisdom
Kill all babies 
or eat them at satanic parties
with nuns priests imams 
preachers coaches billionaires
princes and madams of the night
what a glorious affair
smarter than God people without care
We can sin without end
no retribution in global nation
New world order of fools
claim something new
Dismiss Solomon's wisdom of the sun
Smarter than God people just want to have fun
kill babies in womb
Or let them grow for cannon fodder
eternal wars just for fun
make generals happy 
arms makers too
700 billion annual arms to destroy poor nations
Democrats Republicans no hesitation
they all vote what lobbyists say
mindless sycophants
smarter than God they chant
Ever heard of a democratic scientist
Republican scientist
Scientists of two truths or two lies
85% deaf dumb blind
sing along with Mitch
robots of Fox CNN 
take your choice
fake news all
truth trampled under foot
smarter than God people pay piper
the tune is Silent Night
can't imagine germ warfare in their midst
Smarter than God people wouldn't do such a thing
but eat babies drink their blood
why not spread germs reset global order
why would they do this you say
Smarter than God people need to play
bored with money 
billions trillions
let's eliminate the poor
taking up space
let them eat germs devour toxic air water food
let's make them obese around the world
Let them drink Coke
seven grams sugar per can
no matter diabetes 
cut off his toe foot leg
Drink Coke be Cool
walk with swagger 
what do poor matter
we are smarter than God people
we rule the world
10% blood suckers of the poor
living on $1.00 per day
Imagine working from can't see to can't see
$1.00 per day
most of the world you didn't know
we had live in maid in mexico city
paid her $30.00 month
cleaned house
cooked
went to mercado para comida
limpio ropas
$1.00 day por favor
you wonder why they run across border like roaches
they running from roaches dirt floor catholic saints on mantel
candles burning Virgin Mary Black Saint Martin De Porres
running from drug cartels filthy drinking water
we drank no water didn't have iodine pill
didn't eat food from street vendors
only ate out in Zona Rosa (white folks zone)
On way to Zona Rosa via Paseo de la Reforma
pass US Embassy
long lines of Mexicanos para Ustados Unidos Norte Americano
mucho mucho Mexicanos
no quiero dirt floors washing bathing cooking in filthy river water
Black USA Negroes in Mexico say
We never going back to USA. Fuck USA. Any Black want to stay in USA
let them stay enjoy slavery in the new era
imagine fighting for voting rights forever
13th Amendment slavery
2.5 Constitutional slaves in USA prisons today
Elders tell me today is worse than slavery 2021
And 1619 is a lie
Yes it is because the shit started in 1441 when Portuguese hit West Africa
Is Thomas Jefferson raping child Sally Hemming a lie
Her six kids by him a lie
She lived in a room next to his bedroom without light a lie
1619 a lie
Critical race theory a lie
what the fuck is the motherfuckin' goddamn truth
Sun Ra said we want the low down dirty truth
no miller lite funky white full blown denial truth
white christian democratic jim crow lynching denial truth
dem niggas hung themselves
we would never do such a thing
we had civil war because we just wanted them to work forever
while we sipped mint juleps and miss ann slipped out back door with buck
same time massa eased out front door to fuck same buck
when civil war broke out miss ann had buck to herself
whipped him when he didn't serve her right
buck slipped off plantation to be with 200,000 African warriors
disarmed after critical winning civil war
languished in neo slavery from civil war to 2021
jim crow no fun lynching no fun 
coming home from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan no fun
fighting for theAmerican lie no fun
come home to nothing life no fun
nigga life ghetto prison like Gaza
We Palestinians too 
ghetto hood open prison some never leave
never leave Harlem go downtown never visit Bronx Brooklyn
Chicago Blacks never travel train Northside
Southside stop no more blacks going north
Newark blacks never got to New York
Red cap said Newark baraka told me
Blacks thought red cap said New York jumped off train
been in Newark ever since
Blacks in Hunters Point San Francisco
never been on Third Street bus now trolly to Fisherman's Wharf never
Some San Francisco blacks never been to Oakland
Berkeley blacks never been to Emeryville Marina
Nancy Willson say I been to Paris, Rome, Spain
but never been to me never been to me
James Brown said you got to get to funky D funky D
Michael say look at man in mirror
who dat man
then he say
Remember the Time
But you can't remember
Maafa took your mind
beyond amnesia 
nothing
blank
except dance gods 
yams rice
no name no tribe
pay ancestor.com for name tribe
nigga please
You tribe of Shabazz now
Black Nigga Tribe, or Negus
African American ain't you
They from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana
Ethiopia Jamaica Haiti Trinidad
Barbados Negroes
You North American African
Aboriginal the Moors say
no come on slaver ships
here before Columbus
Guided Columbus overhere
He saw Moorish mosques on the way inj
We Moors
same Moors conquered Spain 711AD
When Black African General Tarik
landed on Rock of Gibraltar, Arabic, Rock of Tarik
African/Arab Moors ruled Spain 711-1492
Grandeur of Moorish Spain is African/Arab
Better ax somebody

Oh, smarter than God people
Jesus said it best for all times in John 8:44
You are liars murderers
Now you profess you smarter than God
with lies murders across the planet earth
God is Love Truth Beauty not lies murder
not killing for joy a nut
murderers get addicted to killing for joy
even in the ghetto whole families kill for joy
families who murder for joy
whitey spends 700 billion annually to kill around the world
for joy
what war has he won since WWII
he didn't win WWII
Russians sacrificed 50 million to win WWII
You won't give them credit for their sacrifice
How can you lie about the lost of so many souls and bodies
yet you lie and persist 1619 project is a lie
don't want it taught in your schools
You can allow the truth of WWII taught in your schools
the sacrifice of millions of other nations than Americans you lie lie lie

As planet earth burns from sea to sea continent to continent you dumbfounded
where is your science of Mother Earth as if she needs your punk ass to save her
When she's been here trillions and billions of years
and your punk bitch fake Green revolution is going to save Mother Earth
you can't save your own bitch ass
Your fake green revolution
after polluting the planet
imagine a sea of plastic three times the size of Texas
And you want cell phone of precious metals from Africa, China, Latin America
gold, silver copper platinum palladium
for your electric cars to drive you nowhere but somewhere to profess
you are smarter than God
you have no other reason for being
you have all the money guns religions slaves and souls of men, women and children.
Still you want more and have no plans of sharing your ill gotten gain
surplus capital from empires of genocidal love and kindness
Alas, after you conquer and destroy cultures civilizations
your democratic and republican scientists, i.e., cultural anthropologists
dig up remains and display them in your grand European museums

Oh, smarter than God people
did the prophets lie 
Isaiah Solomon David Jeremiah Jesus
Noah told you
No more water 
The Fire Next Time!
Lot told the men to take his daughters
but they wanted the men
Such was Sodom and Gomorrah at the end
And Sarah turned back into a pillar of salt
addicted by negative attraction
salt lady
Smarter than God people deny truth in their supreme arrogance
Dumbest motherfuckers ever lived on planet earth
And now they going to outer space
to do what but fuck it up
what else they do with planet earth
fuck it up
fuck it up
fuck it up
smarter than God people
let them all take a trip to outer space
one way ticket please please 
don't come back
Bezos and your fellow blood suckers of the poor to follow
Bezos you said your slaves made your masturbation to space possible.
So you gave that CNN nigga $100 million
I ain't hatin' on the nigga
nigga from Oakland
but I will do more with one penny
I will save the world with one penny
Or leave it to my grandson who told me a three years old,
"Grandfather you can't save the world
but I can."
That boy don't know how much pressure he took off me.
I can get drunk and party 'cause I know he got this shit covered."
--Marvin X
8/5/21

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

How do you know God







How do you know God

How do you know God
if you don't know the devil
God's shadow
real but ain't real
the shadow knows but don't know
you know the shadow is only a reflection of real
not real fake news
when real moves shadow disappears
real still real
devil negative attraction
mirage to fool thirsty fearful
they listen when shadow  calls moves
still ain't real 
can't see wind but you know it will blow yo ass away
let that hawk hit yo ass off Lake Michigan
freeze and blow you away
what is color of wind
devil black shadow
fool you 
you run after shadow
devil calls you
whispers 
come come come 
because I give you nothing
kibbles bits 
mess of pottage 
you devour like hog in slop
love me cause I am nothing
you are nothing
except something
think you nothing
devil convinced you 
you nothing
his slave
bound to Sisyphus mountain
eternity
can you break free
God hears those who praise Him
Sami allahu liman hamida
Rabbana laka al-hamd
Our Lord to Thee is due all praise
Get thee gone satan 
aouthu bilahi mina es shaitani r-rajim
I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil
who whispers into the hearts of men.... (Al Qur'an)


How do you know God if you don't know the devil
Go down devil's den
wallow in muck 'n mire of hell
swim in slime waters of filth
dance with devil's angels
dance naked into night
drink satan's wine
winking blinking with devil's daughters
waiting to catch you napping
then your ass is grass
They say If you didn't want the harlot
why go to harlot's door
why did you answer her call
you knew she was a 'ho
she told you she was a 'ho
you sprung after first dance
her glance
fake eyelashes fake hair fake nails fake breasts fake ass
fake words of love
enchanting smile
cunning vile
you lost turned out
like Olivia on the way to Granny's house
alone you stumbled fell 
robbed
Solomon told you don't travel alone
if you fall who will catch you
somebody 
picked you up from your sloth in the night
not your footprints in sand
who carried you time after time 
you didn't have clue
until you regained sanity
addiction to negative attraction
Your walk in forest
talk with trees plants leaves
no more foolishness they said
be in harmony with Divine
up from the low information vibration
You are in God
God is in you.
Nada mas.
--Marvin X
8/4/21

Monday, August 2, 2021

Notes on the Black Arts Movement Billion Dollar Trust Fund by Marvin X

How Marvin X would allocate the BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund


Poet, Planner, Organizer Marvin X reading at Laney College Theatre, Oakland (Opened for Donald Lacy's Color Struck). Marvin X was recently awarded a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to organize The Black Vendors Association. 

He performs in the Black Arts Movement Business District, CDC's BAMBDFEST throughout the month of Black August. Catch his OFF THE RECORD video segments on Wednesdays, 11AM. He interviews Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga and performs a concert at the Berkeley Black Repertory Group Theatre, accompanied by percussionists Tacuma King and Kele Nitoto, violinist Tarika Lewis, harpist Destiny Muhammad, choreographer Raynetta Rayzetta RIP and words of inspiration by Suzzette Celeste.
photo Alicia Mayor

Marvin X, the Black Arts Movement Business District co-founder and planner, suggests how the BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund would be allocated:

$100 million for General Fund
$100 million for Five Year Plan
$200 million for mixed use rental housing (seniors, artists, workers, mentally disabled, recently incarcerated, single parents)
$100 million for mortgage loans, especially for purchase of modified SRO hotel rooms with life estate titles for the chronically homeless, thus ending homelessness overnight
$100 million for job training
$ 100 million for micro and macro loans to entrepreneurs
$100 million to establish the David Blackwell STEM Institute (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
$100 for land and real estate acquisition
$100 for reentry assistance to displaced former residents of Oakland




Notes on the Black Arts Movement Billion Dollar Trust Fund by Marvin X

7/24/21


While I worked my Academy of Da Corner book stand at 14th and Broadway, I was approached by City of Oakland Planning Consultants as per my ideas for Oakland's Downtown Plan for the next 25 to 50 Years. Since they only found time to approach the community, i.e., North American Africans, as they neared the final report of their project, I didn't take them seriously though I informed them that the City of Oakland had just voted to establish the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor from the lower bottom to Lake Merritt and four blocks north and south of 14th Street. The planning consultants seemed shocked the community had a district in the City's plan. The planner soon returned to invite us to their planning meetings. At one such meeting I heard North American African developers say that we are not present in Oakland's skyline, although we are qualified to be present. The only presence we have are the giant cranes constructed by Tom Berkeley that revitalized the Port of Oakland, although North American Africans share little equity in the Port of Oakland that is not technically owned by the City of Oakland. 

So as per our presence in Oakland's skyline, the North American African developers aroused my interest especially as per our equity presence in Oakland's Downtown Plan for the next 25-50 years. I am aware of how Black Developers have been excluded from projects after white developers have given substantial "gifts" to City Council persons, even after the plans of North American African development projects have been approved. This is obviously political chicanery.

When we became aware of the Carmel development project at 14th and Broadway, now entitled The ATLAS, a 600 unit market rate housing the Black Arts Movement Business District, CDC, under the direction of Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, demanded Community Benefit Agreements for displacement. Of course the BAMBD CDC was not in harmony with politicians or developers. The City Councilwoman in the BAMBD district, instructed "stakeholders" to direct all Community Benefit Agreements through her, but the BAMBD CDC ignored her attempt to dominate our district. We believe in Power to the People as the Black Panther Party taught. 

BAMBD CDC was incorporated as a community institution independent of the City of Oakland's domination. We were aware of Cultural Districts in other cities that the politicians attempted to control so the community would have no voice in benefit agreements or any other equity agreements. though the community would suffer pains of displacement, homelessness and joblessness. 

Although we gave assistance to the BAMBD CDC, including preparing its incorporation papers, we were not content with the quibbles and bits of Community Benefit Agreements. We joined the BAMBD CDC for meetings on the CBA but our vision was for ownership equity. So we met with the Carmel Developers who were happy to meet with us and all others in our community that they could persuade to address the Planning Commission to approve their project for their 600 unit market rate housing development with retail space on the street level. While BAMBD CDC continued meeting with CARMEL, Carmel also agreed to meet with those of us who desired to discuss equity ownership. They thought equity ownership was an interesting idea and said they would study the idea or any other idea that would advance their approval with the Planning Commission. Carmel even agreed to support the publication of our community newspaper but were highly upset when we published a full page ad that depicted the architect's sketch of their project. But ironically, when they appeared before the Planning Commission, they project the full page ad from our paper on the giant screen as evidence of community support. 

So let's cut to the endgame. We are demanding the Carmel project, aka ATLAS, ownership is transferred to the Black Arts Movement Business District, perhaps in a joint ownership agreement that will ultimately transfer total ownership to the BAMBD CDC or another community entity independent of City of Oakland, yet a critical component of the Oakland Downtown Plan. This equity agreement will insure the BAMBD as a long-term critical owner in the development project currently known as ATLAS. We will compensate CARMEL for fair market value of their development project by foundation and corporate grants for long term projects, e.g., the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant for long term projects and other contributions, including sovereign wealth funds and/or the MiniUp project created by Attorney Amira Jackmon who was present at our meeting with Carmel when we discussed equity ownership. Attorney Jackmon, a high finance bond's writer, has envisioned a community bonds project that may differ from her MiniUP Project.

Finally, in our desire for equity, envision reparations as part of this paradigm, but also imagine the community employing their in this investment project to reset Oakland's skyline to represent economic and social justice. In contrast to Carmel and The ATLAS making available minimal units below market rate, we would reverse the process and make available the majority of units affordable. Clearly, the City of Oakland and its planning consultants must re-envision its downtown plan to make North American Africans and their BAMBD a self sustaining entity to ensure long term vitality, with housing the critical component. 

Below market rate retail space is equally as critical since many people in our community suffer post traumatic slave syndrome, similar to the military persons returning from America's eternal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria.  The military is sending its veterans to schools and colleges to become entrepreneurs and North American Africans suffer the same PTSD from America's drug wars, mis-education, economic disparity (Black men make 57 cents to the dollar as per white men). Covid 19 has revealed critical disparities in health care. There is no need to discuss Critical Race Theory. The facts speak for themselves, we don't need theories. 

Toward the Billion Dollar Trust Fund

for the Black Arts Movement Business District

The BAMBD is part of the City of Oakland’s downtown plan for the next 25 to 50 years. If it is to survive and thrive, the must be an independent endowment trust fund established to avoid city politics and budget crises that may cause defunding of the BAMB. So while we are not averse to receiving grant funds from city, state and governmental agencies, the BAMBD Billion Trust Fund would insure an independent repository of funds for the life blood of the BAMBD. We want the trust fund to be primary supported by the North American African people of Oakland and elsewhere throughout the nation. It will be a symbol of self-determination of the people. While we would not turn down funding from government and corporate entities, The BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund should symbolize and express the spirit of cultural and economic independence of the Black Arts Movement. As citizens, we have every right to receive funds from governmental and corporate agencies but the primary contributors to the fund should be North American Africans. In the past, too many of our organizations have been funded by persons and agencies not in harmony with the true aspirations of North American Africans. It must be clear that we will not compromise our principles and values for financial assistance. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors who called for cultural and economic independence.

Priorities of BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund

As indicated in the BAMBD pillars, housing is a priority. There must be market rate and affordable housing for workers, artists and common people in the BAMBD. We propose all properties in the BAMBD should be placed under the land trust to preserve land and properties for future generations, especially to stem the tide of gentrification. To help end homelessness, we seek to acquire SRO hotels for the homeless and grant them life estate titles to their dwellings. This will end a certain degree of homelessness overnight. Housing would assist those recently released from incarceration and those suffering from drug abuse, mental illness and partner abuse.

The BAMBD trust fund would acquire commercial properties for the district that would include office space, retail space, performance and exhibit space. In certain cases, we may need to re-gentrify properties for the benefit of the BAMBD community, placing such properties under the land trust.

We propose the establishment of the Dr. David Blackwell Institute of Math, Science, Technology and Art as an anchor educational institution in the BAMBD. The institute is in honor of the great North American mathematician who taught at the University of California, Berkeley. We invite UC Berkeley to partner with BAMBD in the establishment of the Blackwell STEM and Art institute. Silicon Valley corporations should also support the Blackwell Institute.

Again, the BAMBD trust should rely on the primary support of North American Africans who do indeed have the wealth to fund their cultural and economic endeavors.

The BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund would be under the direction of a community board with a vision for the future.

We invite non-profit groups in the BAMBD area and vicinity to partner with us to make the BAMBD a reality. We would especially appreciate such groups partnering with us to apply to the MacArthur Foundation’s 100 Million RFP for long range projects with broad community support.

Marvin X, BAMBD Planner