Thursday, November 4, 2010

Oakland Braces for Sentencing of Killer Cop















Oakland Braces
for Sentencing of Oscar Grant, Jr. Killer Cop

Again, the City of Oakland circulated a letter to downtown businesses to use their best judgment whether they should leave early on Friday in anticipation of a light sentence for theBART police officer who shot Oscar Grant in the back while under arrest on last New Year's.

Men's Warehouse is boarded up. Shall there be another Day of Absence with white workers fleeing the area early Friday afternoon? They did so when the verdict was announced. They fled by car, bus, subway, taxi, and on foot. It was a day of fear of the North American African response to injustice by Euro Americans, part of a 400 year train of injustices.

Will the murder cop get 14 years? We highly doubt it. Some say five years, 31/2 serve, 1/1/2 years probation. Of course this is a light sentence by a wicked society protecting one of their own who kill under the color of law.

What should be our response? Personally, we feel brother Lovelle Mixon got justice for Oscar Grant when Mixon smoked four Oakland police. The universe has a way of getting justice. Sometimes we pray when God has already answered!

There is no black army for justice. The Oakland Black Panthers were the last to attempt putting police under community control. At least they took the oppression off the people for a moment by having the police focus on crushing the Panthers. Panthers gave the people a time to breathe while the pigs killed Panthers and Panthers killed them. The BPP became a threat to the national security of the United States, according to the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. His plan COINTELPRO or counter intelligence was to stop the rise of a black messiah by any means necessary, including assassination or outright murder in the case of Chicago BPP leader Fred Hampton, Jr. and Oakland's Lil Bobby Hutton, murdered by the OPD in a shootout in which Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver was wounded.

When violence occurred a few months ago after the verdict, manslaughter instead of murder, small business owners suffered damage and could not understand why they were attacked. Many purposely displayed an Oscar Grant poster in their windows. The small business owners should be spared violence. But we know agent provocateurs shall be in the crowd. And the police are totally useless and themselves provocative. After the verdict was announced and looting at Foot Locker, radical civil rights attorney Walter Riley was beaten by police as he tried to enter his office next door to the Foot Locker. The police were apparently unconcerned about the looters.

The Nation of Islam's newspaper Muhammad Speaks used to have a cartoon of police brutality that asked in the caption Who do you call for protection? We must protect ourselves. We can provide community security. In Iraq the US stopped the insurgent violence by hiring them to secure their communities. It offered the insurgents jobs, education and housing. It is doing the same in Afghanistan with the Taliban.

So we must move beyond focusing on the police, they are the neo-slave catchers and must fulfill their duties. We can respond to them tit for tat, as Mixon demonstrated, liberty or death!

We can also stop being reactionaries and be proactive with respect to black on black violence. Is Oscar Grant selective suffering? Why is there no anger when we kill each other but only when the white man kills us-- murder is murder, death is death, and wrong is wrong. It is hypocritical for us to only respond to police abuse. What about all the suffering families who've lost loved ones to black on black homicide. Why don't we riot about that, kick some doors in about that?

Why do we not protest black on black murder. Why do we not demand blacks use their arms for community defense rather the attacking each other for mostly minor matters. Ain't no nigguhs getting killed over millions, billions or trillions. Most of the homicide is over pussy and dick, not drugs, but pussy and dick matters between all genders. Domestic violence, partner violence is such that half the community attends court mandated anger management classes.

We must get beyond physical violence, verbal and emotional abuse. We suggest a self imposed tone test with each other and the police. Based on our tone of voice, we can, when stopped by the police, get killed, arrested or released. With each other, whether on the street or in the home, we can use the language of love and unity.

We must practice eternal vigilance, stay aware of our surroundings and not try to function in a mind altered state. These are dangerous times and we must wear the armor of God consciousness. For example, we were trapped in the crowd of the millions for the Giants World Series parade. People were pushing at our back yet there was no room to move. We could have reacted to the constant pushing and shoving, but we kept our cool, refused to respond to the fools at our back. We could have turned around and bust them in the mouth. But we were cool, even though the day was hot, the crowd impossible, we're sweating and fools trying to push us forward.

There comes a time when politics becomes war. But you can't make war if you are not prepared, if you are not organized. Marcus Garvey said the world is moving against all unorganized people.
Mao Se Tung told you to get organized. Yet it is helter skelter in the hood.

We like to cry crocodile tears, attend funerals and suffer our grief alone. Whatever the sentence tomorrow, whatever the community response, this will not bring Oscar Grant back, and yet because family and community organized, a killer cop was at least charged and convicted for the first time in California history. Imagine, Oscar has had more power in death than in life, a few days ago the Longshoreman's union closed down all Bay Area ports in honor of Oscar Grant. There were proclamations by European countries in honor of Oscar Grant. Honor him by continuing to organize against all violence, whether police under the color of law, or black on black violence, or the violence caused by the trillion dollar US defense budget that causes violence around the world.
--Marvin X

Poet, playwright, essayist, Marvin X holds sessions of his Academy of da Corner at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland and Third and LaSalle, Hunters Point, San Francisco. He's published five books this year: The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/fables, volumes I and II;
The Mythology of Pussy and Dick, toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality, Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself, essays on Obama Drama, and I AM OSCAR GRANT, essays on Oakland,
Black Bird Press, Berkeley. Visit his blog: www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com. Email: jmarvinx@yahoo.com.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Preview #19, Journal of Pan African Studies




Preview #19, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Guest Editor, Marvin X


Tony Medina, Washington DC

Slam-A-Lot

Shit Slam Squat & Pee Slam Bacon & Eggs Slam Ham on Rye Slam Shit on Shinola Slam Spit & Drool Slam Vomit Slam Back Alley Wino Piss Slam Maggots Crawling Out An Open Skull Slam Backstabbing Slam Eviction Slam Ass on Pavement Slam Prescription Slam Hungry Man Slam Starvation Slam Bombs Bursting in Air Slam Dead Roach in Spaghetti Slam Dumb Motherfuckers Can’t Think for Self Slam Reading is Detrimental Slam Cain & Able Slam Gentrification Slam Globalization Slam Hull of a Slaveship Slam Middle Passage Slam Ku Klux Klan Slam Goosestep Heil Hitler Nazi Slam Gas Chamber Slam Sodomy Slam Full Frontal Lobotomy Slam One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Slam I Don’t Give a Damn Slam Genocide Slam Smallpox in Blankets for Indians Slam Thanksgiving Day Slam Resurrection Slam Dead Cock Forklift Viagra Slam Stank Ho Slam Auction Block Slam Kill Whitey Slam Maroon Slam Macheteros Slam Boukman Slam Toussant L’Oveture Slam Jean Jacques Dessaline Slam Che Slam Fidel Slam Nat Turner Slam John Brown Slam Sandinista Slam Al Queda Slam Weapons of Mass Destruction Slam HIV Slam AIDS Slam Anthrax Slam Ebola Soup Slam UN Troops Slam Avian Flu Slam Agent Orange Slam Muscatel Slam Mad Dog Slam Ripple Slam Gut Bucket Blues Slam Rot Gut slam Cocaine Slam Crack Slam Crystal Meth Slam Preemptive Slam Slam National Security Slam Defense Department Manufacture AIDS Slam Bush Administration Bomb the World Trade Center & the Pentagon to Go to War with the Middle East & Snatch Up Oil Wells & Undermine the Euro Slam Your Mother’s a Two-Face Slam Poppa Was a Rolling Stone Slam 40 Acres & a Mule Slam Reparations Slam Zionism Slam Gaza Strip Slam Infitada Slam Suicide Bomber Slam Stolen Land Slam Son of Sam Slam I Am What I Yam Slam Green Eggs & Ham Slam High Blood Pressure Slam Sugar Slam Booger Slam Bling Bling Slam Sing Sing Slam Sick & Demented Slam Jimmy Superfly Snucka Slam Spanish Fly Slam Spanish Inquisition Slam Conquistador Slam Christopher Columbus Slam Cuttie Sark Slam Buffalo Soldier Slam Dredlock Rasta Slam Philistine Slam Afro Sheen Slam Colgate & Listerine Slam Robin Island Slam Apartheid Slam Free Winnie Mandela Slam Negroes with Guns Slam Pedophile Priests & Mean Nuns with Big Rulers Slam James Brown Don’t Want None Won’t Be None Slam We Bombed in Baghdad Slam Iraq Cradle of Civilization Reduced to Barney & Betty Rubble Slam Israelis Genociding Palestinians Slam Scentless Bombs Slam Wailing Wall Slam Tears for Fears Slam Blood for Oil Slam Human Cargo Slam NY Life Slave Insurance Slam Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Globalization Slam Goree Island Slam Elmira Slave Castle Slam Exxon Mobile Slam Watergate Slam Iran Contra Slam Guatemalan Genocide Slam Forced Migration Slam Media Manipulation Slam Embedded Journalists Slam Church & State Slam State & Corporate Slam Eleanor Bumpers Slam Underdevelopment Slam Internment Camp Slam Concentration Camp Slam Reservation Blues Slam Whites Only Slam COINTELPRO Slam FBI Slam CIA Slam Ton Ton Macoute Slam Das Boot Slam Il Duce Slam Antonio Gramsci Slam Skull & Crossbones Illuminati Slam Kiss My Black Ass Slam Bitch Better Have My Money Slam Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down Slam Capitalism & Christianity Slam The Marriage of Hell & Hell Slam Abu Grab Slam Torture Slam Right Wing Reactionary Sociopath Slam Population Control Slam War Crimes Slam I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More Slam O Slam My Best Friend Gayle Slam Stedman & I Slam O Sam I Am Slam Spam Slam Astispumante Slam Hey, You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter Broke Back Mountain Slam Sperm Juleps Slam Chunky Phlegm Slam Taxation without Representation Slam Santeria Slam Shango Elegba Slam Crayola Slam Payola Slam The Grassy Knoll Slam The Blown Out Skull of Jack Kennedy Slam Ethnic Cleansing Slam Police Brutality Slam All-White Juries Exonerating White Cops Slam Coup de tat Slam Regime Change Slam Bitter Fruit Slam Black Reconstruction Slam Bay of Pigs Slam Anti-American Activities Slam Collateral Damage Slam Electric Chair Slam Shock & Awe Slam Scar Tissue Slam Eczema Slam INS Slam Accelerated Sharing Slam World Bank Slam IMF Slam Another World is Possible Slam Planetary Protest Against War Slam DeBeers Diamond Miners Slam A Piece of the Action Slam Petite Bourgeois Slam Genetic Engineering Slam Petro Dollars Slam Idi Amin Dada Slam Mobutu Slam Shanty Town Slam The G-8 Slam Riot Gear Slam Privatization Slam Neo-con Slam Neo-liberalism Slam Driving Down Wages Slam Tax Write-Off for Corporations Slam Good Governance Slam Obey the IMF Slam Sweatshop Slam Say Hello to My Little Friend Slam Carpet Bagging Slam Carpet Bombing Slam Carpet Cleaning Slam Carpet Cutting Slam Carpet Burns Slam Carpet Munching Slam Carpe Diem Slam Corporate Takeover Slam Corpus Christi Slam Carpal Tunnel Slam Constitutions That Stipulate Only Whites Are Human Beings Slam WTO Slam Extra Virgin Olive Oil Slam Sugarless Slam Fat-free Slam Anorexic Slam Bulimic Slam Regurgitation Slam Vomiting on the Side of a Ship Slam Tedious Extended Metaphor Slam Everything in This Motherfucker but the Kitchen Sink Slam The Kitchen Sink Slam

Tony Medina, two-time winner of the Paterson Prize, is the author of fifteen books, including Committed to Breathing; Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response; I and I, Bob Marley; My Old Man Was Always on the Lam; Broke on Ice; and An Onion of Wars. Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Medina’s poetry, fiction and essays appear in over ninety anthologies and publications.

Greg Carr, Washington DC


Poem # 1:

A Poem for Stayers

I want to stay
Squat, full, immense
Full of the broad wealth of age and joy and
Ripe, Sweet Life.

I want to leak
All over the space I occupy
Squishy, syrupy flood
Oozing out of every pore and
Onto everything in sight
Liquid, solid
Life

I want to be the thing you love
More than you love yourself

So that when you are gone
I am still here
Your memory stuck to me and
Leaving the stain
Deeply on the land



Poem # 2: Do Not Concede

Your self
Exists
Do Not Concede it
Then tune your ear
To hear
Your self
Over the din
Under the chorus
Around the edges
Just outside the point of focus

Unfix your sight
Do not concede the
Frame of Reference
Regain your perspective
By blurring the one you inherited
From your Masters
Do Not Concede
Your self

The familiar
Is not the thing you have been forced
To accommodate
Do Not Concede It
To the practical, sensible thing
Listen to your Self
It is old beyond age
And longer than length
It is your lasting, essential tie
To God

Do Not Concede


--Greg Carr

Greg E. Carr, Ph.D., JD
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies
Founder's Library, Room 318
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059


November 15, Deadline for Submissions

Send to jmarvinx@yahoo.com, include brief bio and pic, MS Word attachment

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Art of Deception in the Middle East











The Art of Deception in the Middle East


The Middle East is the prime area on the planet for the play out of deception in the political arena.

Of course, it is original home of the the Assassins, those Medieval hashish smoking Muslims who killed Christians during the Crusades. And since we are in the midst of the neo-Crusades, including the Jewish occupation of Palestine, the US occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, we should look for a repeat of the art of deception in geo-politics. And we find the practice in full bloom. Imagine, the majority hijackers of 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, yet it has not been attacked. Alas, the Bin Laden family members were able to fly out of America when no other plans could fly. The Saudis have not been bombed, though clearly 9/11 was a Saudi theological and mythological adventure. The Saudis are deeply involved in the Iraq Sunni insurgency as well as the Afghanistan Taliban jihad, in coordination with Pakistani Intelligence and USA complicity. Of course in the geo-politics, India is involved to keep the Pakistanis off guard in Kashmir .

So the Saudi offer to mediate the political stalemate in Iraq is subterfuge and political chicanery at best, for Saudi Arabia has no intention whatsoever to allow a functional Shia government in Iraq, especially under the tutelage of Iran, although it is what it is, as they say in the hood.

As per the future, look toward Iran and Turkey to play a vital role, for they are the best answer to any regional solution, even with Iran's present theo-political crisis and its mythological president, though he is no more mythological than the Zionists, the Crusader Americans and the Sunni reactionaries.

Clearly, the time has come for Shia rule, no matter their heretic tendencies. Sunnis, get over it! Swallow the bullet, for the Shias have the guns and shall not give them up any time soon. And war is politics by other means!

We know for a surety that Sunni Muslims have no love for Shia Muslims, never have and never will, for the Shia are heretics of the first order, according to Sunni Muslims, thus, they can be killed at will for heresy, as they killled Hallaj who merely cried Anna Al Haqq or I am the Truth, thus I am Allah--one attribute of Allah is The Truth.

And now the Shia have the grand opportunity to rule in Iraq, across the border from their Shia brothers in Iran, creating a Shia pathway from the Tigress and Euphrates to the Mediterranean.
Hezbollah protects their gateway or "sirata al mustaqim" to the sea.

The Sunnis is Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States have conspired with America and the Israeli Zionist entity to insure the destabilization of Iraq if the Shia government refuses to share power with the Sunni. And why should they do so after centuries of Sunni oppression of the Shia?

Yes, the March election has been in a quagmire because the USA, in conspiracy with the Sunni regional powers, have every intention to prevent the installation of a continued Shia regime.

In truth, America doesn't give a damn about Sunni or Shia, all he wants is oil and geo-political domination as required of white supremacy mythology, in unity with Zionist mythology.

And so the latest call for a conference of all parties in Saudi Arabia is but the latest scheme in the diabolical attempt to further the destabilization of the area, mainly to keep the Shia from weiding the power history has blessed them with.

According to intelligent sources, it is indeed Shia Iran and Turkey that shall exercise power in the region, especially since they have a history of democratic institutions. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States are Stone Age creatures who are not about to institute democratic reforms. And America is their best buddies as they tread the path of reaction.

We need only recall that in Iran a democratically elected prime minister was overthrown by the CIA and the Shah reinstalled. The Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini ran the Shah out, but then came the Iraq/Iran war that caused the death of millions on both sides, with America supplying the poison gas and other war materials to the Iraqis. Thus America is in no position to play a fair broker. She plays, as they say in hood, dirty pool!

Iraqi Shia bloc rejects Saudi offer - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Iraqi Shia bloc rejects Saudi offer - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

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