Black on Black Homicide and the Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Forget about drugs, gang initiation rituals and criminal activity as causes of so called Black on Black homicide. It is becoming clearer and clearer that much of this killing is over women. So now we are to blame the black woman for the death of young black men? Yet it is clear to police nationwide that sexual improprieties are the root cause of young men killing each other.

We hear of a national program to reach out to gang members about male/female relations, to instruct young black men that women are not their chattel or private property. No matter what, they must come out of the patriarchal mentality that their girlfriend's body belongs to them, rather than her, no matter that they may pay the cost to be the boss. Alas, in many cases the males are not even in a position to pay the cost to be the boss, and this may be reason for tension and insecurity on the part of males, thus any perceived breach of the relationship contract is reason for violence against the female or her suspected male partner and/or friend, especially the new boyfriend.

Because of the high incarceration rate in the hood, many relationships are insecure at best, and of course women alone seek out friendship of other males and/or females when their boyfriends go to jail.
His buddies inform on her behavior and retaliation is in order, sometimes it is the guy's best friend who is improper or out of line with the incarcerated person. Thus the consequent violence is done out of passion and ego damage, although in many cases the wounded male was never "right," and more often was wrong and abusive, so he shot himself in the foot and the female was only getting a little revenge when she started having sex with his best friend, after all, he had had a sexual relationship with her girlfriend.

Yes, this is high drama in the hood, but it is real not some stage play. Of course many brothers will claim they went to jail trying to "pay their pussy bill." This can only increase tension, hurt and passion if the female does not remain true and faithful, although she has the human right to go her way. This is what must be understood on the part of young males. They must get a healing on this matter so critical to their life and death. People who are descendants of the slave system cannot intern treat each other as slaves.

Young black man, your woman's pussy belongs to her, not you! You don't have a pussy, Mr. Black man. Do you bleed five days per month? Get a life, get manhood training and come into the modern world. We are all free human beings, born free by the Creator, and no about of money, clothes, trinkets, food, hair weave or other materialism makes you the owner of your woman. Again, she is not your slave and you are not her master.

Clearly, you can hardly master yourself, let alone master her. Some of you are so ignut you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, yet you want to control and dominate your wife, girlfriend, partner.
Get a healing, come out of the Flintstones, stop killing your brother because when you kill him you kill yourself!
--Marvin X
8/20/12

Marvin X is the author of Mythology of Pussy and Dick, aka Mythology of Love, a manhood and womanhood rite of passage, Black Bird Press, Berkeley. Marvin X has given away thousands of copies of his pamphlet MOP@D nationwide. He spent a week lecturing on the topic at Howard University.
Comments from youth include a young lady who said, "The pamphlet empowered me. I didn't know I had that much power." A young black male said, "It helped me up my game." A mother told Marvin, "Thank you, thank you for writing this. I am going to make my son and daughter read this.

On Saturday, September 1, 3-6pm, Marvin X will read and sign his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th Street, downtown Oakland. Call 510-200-4164.

On Returning through the Door of No Return

The reed eternally years to return to the reed bed. Rumi taught us, this is why the sound of the reed flute is the sound of mourning, of lost. And thus we come naked and return naked to the womb of life. All that we do while here is in anticipation of the return, for Mother gave us birth and to Mother we return.

We have no illusions we shall be here forever, for we understand we are here from a moment. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said live like we shall be here forever and like we shall die tomorrow morning.

It is not about years, didn't MKL, Jr. say he wished he could live a long life, and yet he went to the Mountaintop and saw us in the promised land. Even the very thought is enough to make reality, for are not thoughts things?

Just do the work, that is most important, the work, the time, the energy, the sacrifice, the selflessness. After which we are not full of dread but happiness and joy, for we have done the work and passed the baton to the next generation. There is nothing else to do but say As-Salaam-Alaikum!

The Africans say the only death is to be forgotten, to not continue in the communal memory as ancestor. But if you do the work, you shall be remembered. Your spirit in the communal memory shall survive.

There is clear evidence of this in your students, children and grandchildren. Do the work!

There is no retirement for the soldier if the battle is not won. He fights on until victory, no matter age, disability, memory. No "slave" dies a natural death. Elder Ed Howard teaches us we were never slaves but Africans caught in the "slave system." Thus we must never address ourselves as slaves but rather as persons caught in the American Slave System (ASS).

This reevaluation of the African psycho will lead us to a solution to the identity crisis, Am I Kunta Kinti or Toby?

How long would it take a Jew to declare whether he is a victim of Nazism or is he a citizen of the world, citizen in a country possessing nuclear weapons to defend itself?

The Pan African psyche is yet enduring the wretchedness of colonialism and neocolonialism. Witness the recent mass murder of miners in South Africa!

We should know by now a black face shall not save you. In Newark, New Jersey, every black mayor has been a sellout, according to Black Arts Movement Godfather Amiri Baraka. "They sold out before they took the oath of office!"

Amiri Baraka told this writer he personally gave out copies of How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy by Marvin X to the entire Newark City administration, including the mayor, Cory Booker.

And so here we are at the precipice, and yet only you can save you, have no illusions, the North American African must come from his root traditions, suffered in the swamps, bayous, creeks, rivers,
plantations and free towns, urban cities, hoods and turfs.

Stand up and call fourth that ineluctable energy to be successful and honor ancestors!

--MarvinX/El Muhajir

8/18/12

mutabaruka- it no good(to stay in a white man country too long)

Have Blacks Lost The Revolutionary Holy Ghost?

Have US Blacks lost their spirit for social activism?
on August 15, 2012  

Derek King and Rev. Al Sharpton

by Jessica Williams-Gibson Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder
http://greenecountydemocrat.com/?p=4688

Some are concerned that the kind of activism advocated by leaders such as Rev. Derek King (left) and Rev. Al Sharpton is not as strong in the Black community today as in the past.

During the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s, African-Americans mobilized and marched for issues such as segregation, racial discrimination and voting rights.

Issues Blacks face today include unemployment, health disparities, mass incarceration, education declines, voting hurdles, gun violence and the deterioration of the Black family among many others. These issues matter to African-Americans, however many would argue that very little action is taken on these issues or if an outcry does occur, the passion soon fades.

Have Blacks lost their spirit for social activism? Have Blacks forgotten how to come together to affect change?

Dr. Derek B. King Sr., a professor at Martin University and nephew of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Rev. Thomas L. Brown, son of local civil rights activist Dr. Andrew J. Brown and pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church; and Barbara Bolling, a member of the national board of directors and the Indiana State President of the NAACP, give their thoughts.

The Black church has changed

King believes that Blacks have lost their spirit for social activism for several reasons. He says that during the civil rights movement, issues of racism were clear and victories that were won because of the movement caused people to believe “the fight” was over.

Most importantly he believes the Black church has changed. “The messaging has changed. There are some Black pastors who try to keep their congregants aware of issues that affect Blacks disproportionately. But the majority of the messaging coming out of the Black church does not speak to systemic challenges,” said King.

“One of the people who was well respected in the Black community was pastors. Much of the messaging that comes out of Black pulpits today is prosperity preaching…get paid…get your breakthrough. When we talk about things that affect Blacks, we’ve fallen asleep behind the wheel.”

Despite his strong opinion, he said there is considerable concern in the Black community about homicide rates, however there is a laundry list of important issues that Blacks are either unaware of or don’t care about.

“We’ve gotten selfish. If it doesn’t affect me, it’s not my problem. During the civil rights movement, it didn’t matter how much money you had or how much education you had, Blacks in the south sat on the back of the bus. Up until 1965 Blacks in America could not vote. These issues affected all Blacks,” he said.

“Unless it affects a measurable population of Blacks, we will raise our voices and take some sort of action, but generally, (we have the attitude of) ‘if it doesn’t affect me, it’s not my problem.’”

Apathy has increased

Brown agrees with King and says that Blacks have lost their social activism because they’ve lost their spiritual activism.

“We have become lazy and apathetic. Our religion has become part of the secular movement and not the spiritual movement,” said Brown. “Our Black church is about religion, not spirituality.”

He also echoes King’s sentiments on rampant selfishness in the Black community.

At 70-years-old, Brown not only actively demonstrated during the civil rights movement, but his father, Rev. Andrew J. Brown was a local leader fighting for justice. Brown has also sat amongst noted Black leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy and even Malcolm X.

Although Brown has not stopped speaking out on issues in the Black community, he pinpoints the 90s as the begging of the decline of the Black activist.

“We were moving toward the notion of making money and becoming financially successful…getting status,” he said. “We started copying our oppressor.”

Brown does recognize the awe and accomplishments of President Barack Obama, but reminds Blacks that “we have not arrived.”

To further prove his point, he said that when Blacks do speak out on issues, it’s usually on issues of grief such as the Trayvon Martin issue. Blacks need to speak out about all injustices, including Black-on-Black crime.

Increases in technology spewing information quickly have also aided in Blacks glossing over issues. People are hustling and are all about survival while simultaneously losing sight of their historical passion for change.

He also believes Blacks have lost the concept of sacrifice.

Technology can be overwhelming

Bolling does not agree that Blacks have lost their spirit for social activism citing the Trayvon Martin marches that occurred across the country and the outcry during the 2007 Jena 6 incident involving high school students and racism in Louisiana.

She said that when issues such as those arise and reach people’s hearts, Blacks do mobilize and march.

On the other hand, she also said that technology and the barrage of news that people are faced with does make tackling issues overwhelming.

“If something does occur, you have to act instantaneously. If it takes you too long to get to your point, people’s minds will wander. You got to be ready (to fight injustice) all the time,” said Bolling.

People should not only be vigilant in addressing new issues, but also remember issues that took place during the civil rights movement still affect Blacks today. She cites today’s Voter ID laws mirroring poll taxes of the past.

Solutions to the problem

King, Brown and Bolling are hopeful that Blacks can regain the passion that once fueled mass social change.

King looks to Black media to use brutal honesty and inform the public about issues going on in the African-American community.

Bolling said that Blacks should educate today’s youth about the past and prepare them to fight for injustices.

She also said that instead of people looking for a “new Dr. King,” President Obama or groups like the NAACP to solve all of Blacks’ problems, average people should take a stand and fight for issues they are passionate about.

Brown agrees that the answer to the problem lies in volunteerism. “We’ve got two or three generations caught up in feeling that they’re entitled. People need to volunteer,” said Brown. “Well, my daddy, Dr. King, Andy Young, Sam Proctor and all those guys used to say ‘it’s got to get worse in order for it to get better.’ We have not hit our bottom yet.”

Happy B Day, Marcus Garvey

Long live Marcus Garvey, long live Revolutionary Black Nationalism! After being taught Black Nationalism in England by Islamic Pan Africanist Duse Muhammad Ali, Garvey came to America hoping to hook up with Booker T. Washington (Abuker), but Abuker died before Garvey could reach him. Garvey came to Harlem and set up shop, eventually organizing millions of Black people around the world to fight against colonialism and white supremacy, one and the same.

He championed blackness, black studies, black economics, black literature. Garvey was the esthetic and ideological leader of the Harlem Renaissance. His newspaper The Negro World, published more poets that any other publication during this time.

He immediately became a target of the FBI who infiltrated his movement and with reactionary Negro intellectuals were able to charge him with fraud and put him in prison, then deported. He died in England without ever visiting Africa, yet we know he is the Father of Pan Africanism. Like Moses, he never made it to the promised land.

Elijah Muhammad continued the work of Garvey and took it to another level with his Nation of Islam, combining aspects of Garveyism and the Islamic teachings of Noble Drew Ali. Of course Elijah was taught one on one for three and a half years by the mystical Master Fard Muhammad. Elijah in turn taught Malcolm X for three years.

Many Black intellectuals give a revisionist version of history by discussing Garvey then skip Elijah to
honor Malcolm X, but how did Malcolm become Malcolm X without the teachings of Elijah Muhammad?

While attending Oakland's Merritt College along with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, we called ourselves followers of Malcolm X, 1962, even while Malcolm was still a member of the Nation of Islam, so this was silly on our part since Malcolm was following the teachings of Elijah.

Eventually I wanted to go beyond the leaf to the tree, so I joined the NOI, 1967.

Aside from the 19th century black nationalists such as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, James T. Holly, John S. Rock, Henry McNeil Turner, et al., we must credit Marcus Garvey with any notion of Black National consciousness we possess today.

--Marvin X

Police open fire on South African miners - Africa - Al Jazeera English

This is what happens when we have a black president suffering the addiction to white supremacy, from
Africa to America. How long shall we be deceived by the black face of imperialism and domestic colonialism? Take off your rose colored glasses. A black hangman is still a hangman!
--Marvin X

At least 12 people have been killed when police opened fire on miners staging a protest at a platinum mine in South Africa,  according to the Reuters news agency. South African police opened fire and dispersed a crowd of striking miners at the Lonmin mine in the North West province on Thursday after issuing an order to the protesters to lay down their machetes and sticks. News TV images showed people lying on the ground, one with blood flowing from a wound. Dennis Adrio, a Police Captain and spokesman for the officers at the mine, declined to immediately comment. South African newspaper, The Sowetan reported on Thursday that police officers had earlier said that negotiation with leaders of the rival union Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) had broken down, leaving no option but to disperse them by force. "Today is unfortunately D-day," police spokesman Dennis Adriao was quoted as saying. Journalists at the scene said several of those shot were laying on the ground and were not moving. Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, said he was "shocked and dismayed at this senseless violence. We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence". "We call upon the labour movement and business to work with government to arrest the situation before it deteriorates any further," Zuma said in a statement. Earlier on Thursday, Lonmin said in a statement that striking workers would be fired if they did not appear at their shifts on Friday. "The striking (workers) remain armed and away from work,'' the statement read. "This is illegal.'' 'Illegal strike'  The unrest at the Lonmin mine began on August 10, as some 3,000 workers walked off the job over pay in what management described as an illegal strike. Those who tried to go to work on Saturday were attacked, management and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. On Sunday, the rage became deadly as a crowd killed two security guards by setting their car ablaze, authorities said. By Monday, angry mobs killed two other workers and overpowered police, killing two officers, officials said. Officers opened fire that day, killing three others, police said. The protest and ensuing violence, which began a week ago, have killed at least 10 people there, including two police officers.

Academy of da Corner Now Accepting Applications for Interns

Black Arts Movement Master Teacher, Marvin X, is now accepting applications for his mentorship project. Students/interns will study under the Master Teacher for three years. Previous students under the mentorship of Marvin X include  Ayodele Nzinga, PhD. candidate, founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz in West Oakland; Geoffrey Grier, founder of San Francisco Recovery Theatre; authors Ptah Allah El, Aries Jordan and Toya Carter; Ramal Lamar, M.A., Mathematics. Send resume to jmarvinx@yahoo.com. Must include a 500 word writing sample and photo.

Former Marvin X student, Dr. J. Vern

Cromartie, Contra Costa College

photo Gene Hazzard

Ayodele Nzinga, PhD.

Along with Rev. Blandon Reems,

authors Aries Jordan and Toya

Carter, performed at Alameda

County Juvenile Hall with 

Master Teacher Marvin X last

Xmas.

photo Adam Turner






Ramal Lamar, M.A., Logic

photo by Kamau Amen Ra










Ptah Allah El (Tracy Mitchell), Minister of Education, Academy of da Corner, author