photo Adam Turner, Black Bird Productions
After an absence of many weeks, Marvin X returned to his Academy of da Corner at 14th and Broadway to encounter numerous young lesbians seeking cultural consciousness and mentoring. Like another dirty old man, Kat Williams, Marvin was overjoyed, "I agree with Kat, too hell with them gays, I love lesbians!" The young lesbians said they will assist Marvin with his latest project, the 50th anniversary of the Black Arts Movement, a Bay Area-wide celebration planned for Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and San Jose. Marvin asked the lesbian ladies to assist with the BAM project after conversing with them and realizing their high level of cultural and spiritual consciousness. This is not a put down of gays because the Black Arts Movement and the arts in general has a great number of same gender loving men. "In my fifty years working in theatre, I have worked with many gays and lesbians. They are some of our greatest writers, actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, etc. The 50th celebration of BAM will need the entire community to get involved, artists, academicians, youth, teachers, preachers, intellectuals and activists. The BAM cultural/spiritual revolution is beyond gender issues. The event is planned for June/July 2015. If you would like to help with this BAM celebration, please contact MarvinX: jmarvinx@yahoo.com. www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com
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Parable of Women Without MenThere
was war in the land, for centuries war in the land. The men were bred
for labor, sperm donations, and death. The women were booty, the spoils
of war. A classical situation, nothing unique, racist, call it the art
of war. Men must be destroyed, or humiliated, effeminated, castrated,
dehumanized. Where is the movie of David Walker, Nat Turner, Denmark
Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, Toussaint, Bokman?
There is no other way
to exercise social control over the population of oppressed people,
enslaved peoples, than to desecrate the men and their manhood. There can
be no recognition of heroes or sheroes, this would be anathema to the
oppressor system of domination. Where is the movie of Harriet Tubman,
Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells.
The man in the oppressive society
is at best a stunted man, a crippled man, handicapped physically and
mentally. He is a warrior but unless he dons the warrior persona,
consciously or unconsciously, he cannot assume the title, thus he is a
wimp, a punk bitch, a dehumanized human being, a captive in the slave
society, no matter how modern the trappings of said society.
Either
the former slave exercises self determination and sovereignty, or
he/she is a colonized being, a slave or in the modern era a wage slave,
but a slave none the less.
He can be afforded the trappings of
freedom, the flag, national anthem that he is forced to sing, the
election of a president of his own kind (how many presidents of black
face do we have in Africa that are actually white men of the most
profound kind in their wickedness and debauchery?)
How many
African prime ministers, kings, presidents for life do we have who have
dungeons full of opposition leaders, writers, poets, journalists?
And
so out of this matrix is supposed to arise strong men and boys capable
of continuing the tradition of manhood which involves the revolutionary
tradition? Meanwhile the purpose of the oppressor society is to
dehumanize any semblance of manhood at every turn, to project only the
personality of the stunted man, the muzzled dog man, the effete man as
the dominate personality.
What woman wants such a man? The woman
says, "If I wanted a woman, I do not need a fake woman, I might as well
get me a real woman, a woman who knows how to treat me with gentleness,
even more so than the gentle man!
The champion of male/female
relations, Sharazah Ali says to women, "Be careful when you call for men
to be more sensitive, you end up with effeminate personalities that you
reject." What does the woman says in T.S. Eliot's poem, "That is not
what I meant, that is not what I meant at all...."
And so let us
cut to the chase, what are women to do when their men are incarcerated,
victims of homicide and/or suicide, depressed, drugged out, bisexual,
homosexual, unemployed, etc.?
Nature itself rises to the occasion to answer such questions, such conundrums of life in the hood!
The
man cannot sell dope, so the woman sells dope. The man cannot pimp, so
the woman pimps. The man cannot carry weapons, so the woman does. The
man cannot gansta, so the woman does.
The man cannot care for his
family, so his girl's girl assumes the role, dress, gait, voice and
language. The woman becomes protector of the woman, since the man is
absent, a victim on the battlefield, a causality of life in the hood.
She
dons the persona of the man, including pants sagging, swagger in gait,
voice, and all manner of the masculine personality. She straps on the
plastic or rubber dildo to replace the natural male organ that is absent
for innumerable reasons, among them the fact the man is angry, under
stress, violent and lacking in tenderness, brutal, while she needs
tender loving care in her stress, trying to be mother, and lover to the
unlovable male, thus she moves to her sister girl for such tenderness
and understanding.
If she is the economic superior, she takes
authority as a young lady said, "I leave him with the baby and I bounce.
He the baby mama, I'm the baby daddy."
Indeed, we see the men
picking up children from childcare. We see the men pushing strollers
downtown during work hours, suggesting the male is now the childcare
provider while the women is employed. This is all by societal design, of
course. Have no illusions why the woman can find employment and the man
cannot. The oppressor knows well he can control the woman but he also
knows the oppressed male seeks to overthrow him at the earliest
possibility, to cut his throat and claim the championship title as the
master.
On the educational level matters are devastating. Prison
is the institution for educating black males, white the academic prisons
educate black women who earn their degrees in higher education but must
seek out imprisoned brothers if they are to have a man. After all,
black bourgeoisie parents do not send their sons to Harvard, Yale and
Stanford to connect with a "black bitch." It was clear to my daughter
when she attended Stanford Law School that she and her girls were not to
be matched with black males. Black males avoided them like the bubonic
plague.
I write as a father with three daughters who graduated
college, Yale, Stanford, Howard, Fresno State University, New York
University, Albany, so I know the dilemma of black women seeking a
husband in academia. One of my daughters said recently 75% of her
friends have married or have mates out of the black manhood pool. The
Washington Post noted black women have discarded the idea of marriage
with anyone.
Imagine the situation at Howard University,
Washington, DC, with 14 women for every man, imagine the crisis in
male/female relations, no matter how each gender claims they handle the
situation. I recently spent a week lecturing on the Mythology of Dick
and Pussy at Howard, but I got a clearer understanding of Howard
sexuality, from the males and females, and yet what I learned only
clarified the tragedy of male/female relations, with Howard as a
microcosm. The stats are so outrageous that to consider a functional
solution is beyond the Western paradigm.
We now have women with MBAs, PhDs, either giving up on a husband or seeking a husband doing twenty-five to life.
Such
is the result of war in the hood. Part of the frustration, anger and
rejection of our children who survive the academic world, yet, as
Baraka says, "Come home from academia hating us and everything we're
about, yet they don't even know what we're about," but the children
suspect we have sold them a bogus bill of goods. Many were told to go to
college to find a husband, yet there is none.
Dr. Wade Nobles
says no matter if our children attend Stanford or San Quentin prison, it
is all the same, they are imprisoned, and thus denied their natural
right to be with each other, in love and tenderness.
The real
question is what does all this forebode for the the future? What shall
be the new configuration is gender relations? Surely, not more of the
same old bullshit, not after women have enjoyed same gender loving
relations, and are economically and psychologically independent.
And
yet, how shall they deal with the macho man or the effeminate male or
bisexual rejected by the woman seeking a "real man," and yet many
matrifocal households can at best produce the effeminate male, possibly
the result of bio-chemistry, the petrochemical foods, including hormone
produced meats, water tainted with hormones and other bio undegradable
chemicals recycled from waste water. We are told the residue from
plastics is causing sexual transformations. Surely this all part of the
bio-chemical warfare, add in germ warfare with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
I
only know one thing, plastic toys are a sick reasonable facsimile for
the real male penis. But it is understandable in war, though the only
solution to war is active engagement by males and females, not
diversionary tactics that only prolong war. For the day shall surely
arrive when the female's biology shall seek the real deal Hollyfield.
The
future of the black nation is at hand. Tell me how same gender loving
people shall contribute to the this future. They may find themselves
just as guilty as the oppressor in the destruction of the black nation.
The question is are they pro-life or anti-life?
--Marvin X
6/1/10
