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Saturday, July 23, 2016
USA is the world's top state killing machine
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Harlem Housing Projects to be Domolished for developers
Harlem Housing Projects To Be Demolished!
By Jett Rubenstein / https://jettrubenstein.wordpress.com
July 8, 2016
I
am a Harlem resident originally from Boston. I have received some
disturbing news regarding my community, from a very reliable source that
an identified billionaire housing developer has recently
purchased three Harlem housing project developments from the City Of New
York ,which will displace thousands of low-income families.
• The Polo Grounds Houses located on Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 155th Street,
• the Alexander Hamilton Houses on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and also...
• the Harlem River Houses also located at Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem.
These
housing complexes which houses approximately 6,000 low-income tenants
has been sold to a developer which will demolish the property and build
6,000 luxury condominium units ranging from 400,000-2.2 million dollars
in early 2017 which 10% of the units being offered to middle income
families with an average income of 58,000 a year through a special
lottery. According to my sources, current tenants will be given a
monthly voucher worth 1,000 dollars for rent and a small moving stipend
to cover their moving expenses, but most tenants will not be guaranteed
these vouchers according to a reliable source and many tenants will have
to go on their own to find other housing.
I
have contacted several housing agencies and the Mayors office regarding
this situation and neither agency will issue a comment regarding this
breaking news matter. Of course if I receive any additional news, I will
update new information to my blog.
Poem for some poets by Mae Jackson
For Some Poets by Mae Jackson
Can-i-poet
with you roi
can i
poet for a little while
write a poem about
the Spirit House can i
poet for a while?
let me poet
with ‘cha larry let me
poet for a while
write a poem about your blackness
can I poet for a
while.
can I poet with you nikki
can I poet for a little taste
write a poem about your poetry
can I just for a
day
poet with you
Marvin X
poet with you please?
Saturday, July 16, 2016
A poem for Big D, Donna Jackmon-Hart
Oh, Big D
I look out at the Bay waters
Amtrak to Fresno
early sat. morn
we celebrate your going home
to your Lord
from whence you came
Job said naked I came
and naked I go
Big D
we think of the good in you
and praise it
the wonderful lies you told
time after time
you so good
a nigguh would buy the Brooklyn bridge
from you
and you would sell it with that smile and grin
knowing another fool believed your lies
oh, the lies you told about me
of course I think I'm great
but you made me greater than I could imagine
never will forget when I came to Seattle
and you told your boss you couldn't come to work
you had lost contact with your brother who was in route
to Seattle in his private plane
you told your boss you lost contact with me somewhere
over Lake Tahoe
Girl, you lied so good
damn near got the whole family killed when that mafia nigguh
gave you $10,000.00 to keep for him
Big D, now who would give you ten thousand dollars to keep
but a damn fool you convinced with that smile, grin and funny laugh
so we'll miss your lies Big D
but we'll remember you and you know
one day I will write even more about you
the fantastic life you lived
but I know for sure
I won't be able to tell your story better than you.
Peace and Love forever
Your brother,
Marvin X
7/16/16
A poem for Big D, Donna Jackmon-Hart
Oh, Big D
I look out at the Bay waters
Amtrak to Fresno
early sat. morn
we celebrate your going home
to your Lord
from whence you came
Job said naked I came
and naked I go
Big D
we think of the good in you
and praise it
the wonderful lies you told
time after time
you so good
a nigguh would buy the Brooklyn bridge
from you
and you would sell it with that smile and grin
knowing another fool believed your lies
oh, the lies you told about me
of course I think I'm great
but you made me greater than I could imagine
never will forget when I came to Seattle
and you told your boss you couldn't come to work
you had lost contact with your brother who was in route
to Seattle in his private plane
you told your boss you lost contact with me somewhere
over Lake Tahoe
Girl, you lied so good
damn near got the whole family killed when that mafia nigguh
gave you $10,000.00 to keep for him
Big D, now who would give you ten thousand dollars to keep
but a damn fool you convinced with that smile, grin and funny laugh
so we'll miss your lies Big D
but we'll remember you and you know
one day I will write even more about you
the fantastic life you lived
but I know for sure
I won't be able to tell your story better than you.
Peace and Love forever
Your brother,
Marvin X
7/16/16
I look out at the Bay waters
Amtrak to Fresno
early sat. morn
we celebrate your going home
to your Lord
from whence you came
Job said naked I came
and naked I go
Big D
we think of the good in you
and praise it
the wonderful lies you told
time after time
you so good
a nigguh would buy the Brooklyn bridge
from you
and you would sell it with that smile and grin
knowing another fool believed your lies
oh, the lies you told about me
of course I think I'm great
but you made me greater than I could imagine
never will forget when I came to Seattle
and you told your boss you couldn't come to work
you had lost contact with your brother who was in route
to Seattle in his private plane
you told your boss you lost contact with me somewhere
over Lake Tahoe
Girl, you lied so good
damn near got the whole family killed when that mafia nigguh
gave you $10,000.00 to keep for him
Big D, now who would give you ten thousand dollars to keep
but a damn fool you convinced with that smile, grin and funny laugh
so we'll miss your lies Big D
but we'll remember you and you know
one day I will write even more about you
the fantastic life you lived
but I know for sure
I won't be able to tell your story better than you.
Peace and Love forever
Your brother,
Marvin X
7/16/16
Friday, July 15, 2016
Black on Black Crime Solutions Panel
3rd Annual Black on Black Crime Solutions Panel convenes in South Florida's Pompano Beach
Every year, there are 6,000 to 9,000 violent
black on black violent cases since 1980. In 2014, there were 6,095 black
homicide deaths, and most of them were through the hands of other
people of African descent. Even though there have been 123 deaths from
the hands of police officers already in 2016. From 1980 to 2013, alone,
more than 262,000 black men have been murdered in America. By contrast,
roughly 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War. The numbers are
staggering, and nearly unbelievable. (Huffington Post, 2015).
3rd Annual Black on Black Crime Solutions Panel, Consists of Asst. State Attorney Neva Rainford-Smith, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, Judge Destry, and Others.
Courage To Believe International, Inc., at-risk mentoring group, is bringing the most influential individuals in South Florida's Broward County Criminal Justice System to the table to discuss ways to decrease black on black crime.
White-on-black crime of police brutality has the nation on edge.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA (PRWEB) JULY 14, 2016
The 3rd Annual Black On Black Crime Solutions
Panel is an epic community event about to take place this Saturday in
South Florida's Pompano Beach. This free event will be held at 11 a.m.
on July 16, 2016, at The Worldwide Christian Center Church, located at
450 N. Powerline Rd. Pompano Beach, Florida 33069. With a wish and a
prayer, King Kevin Dorival, president of Courage To Believe
International, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, at-risk youth mentoring group, was
able to pull it off. Some of the most influential individuals in Broward
County Criminal Justice System will discuss ways to decrease black on
black crime.
Every year, there are 6,000 to 9,000 violent
black on black violent cases since 1980. In 2014, there were 6,095 black
homicide deaths, and most of them were through the hands of other
people of African descent. Even though there have been 123 deaths from
the hands of police officers already in 2016. From 1980 to 2013, alone,
more than 262,000 black men have been murdered in America. By contrast,
roughly 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War. The numbers are
staggering, and nearly unbelievable. (Huffington Post, 2015).
The Annual Black On Black Crime Solutions
Panel started in 2014. The catalyst for this annual event came as a
result of Mr. Dorival being upset with the injustices in the black
community, and the lack of attention towards solutions to the violent
crimes sweeping the nation. Furthermore, the frustration of the highly
visual white-on-black crime of police brutality increases black on black
crime, which has the nation on edge.
“It's the lack of love, resources, and applied
knowledge that keeps people of African descent unemployed, frustrated,
and violent. Without the love of self, one cannot give genuine love.
It's time for black people to love themselves enough to support the next
sister or brother. This goes for people of African-Americans in Fort
Lauderdale to Chicago to Africa.”
There will be live entertainment, food, raffle
drawings, and a chance to ask some of the most influential people in
Broward County questions. They are looking for support or a sponsor for
the the event. For more information on how you, or your company can
help, visit their website, http://www.thecouragetobelieve.com or you can go to GoFundMe.com/CrimeSolutionPanel
link on their Twitter/Instagram profile: @Courage2Believe. The event
will be streamed LIVE on Youtube channel on The King Kevin Show for the
world to see. With the help of Rev. O’Neal Dozier the panel consists of:
2016 Panelist: Broward Sheriff, Scott Israel. Dale Holness, Broward
County Commissioner, District 9. Phyllis Pritcher, Broward Judicial
Candidate, Group 2. Judge Matthew Destry, retention election, Group 15.
Roshawn Banks, Attorney. Willie Jones, Candidate for Broward Sheriff.
Neva Rainfort-Smith, Asst. State Attorney. Dr. Ak Tousa, International
Socio Pathologist. Valencia Gunder, Community Activist, Miami. Student
Minister, Roland Muhammad, Nation of Islam. Gino M. Herring, Supervisor
of Elections Office. Anthony Malcolm, Radio Show Host. Suzette Speaks
will be the host.
For more information, contact Mr. Dorival at 954-263-8223, or visit: http://www.thecouragetobelieve.com.
The Courage To Believe, inspirational autobiography by King Kevin Dorival
· Published by Sky View Creative Circle
· Pages: 252 pages, Paperback, 6 x 9
· Pub. Date: December 12, 2012
· ISBN: 9-7809-8556-4827
· Courage To Believe: Never Give Up, Documentary (Release Date, August 2016)
http://www.couragetobelievebook.com
· Published by Sky View Creative Circle
· Pages: 252 pages, Paperback, 6 x 9
· Pub. Date: December 12, 2012
· ISBN: 9-7809-8556-4827
· Courage To Believe: Never Give Up, Documentary (Release Date, August 2016)
http://www.couragetobelievebook.com
For more information about the author, contact Mr. Dorival at http://www.kevindorival.com
Email: thecouragetobelieve(at)gmail(dot)com
Email: thecouragetobelieve(at)gmail(dot)com
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America
Kalamu ya Salaam's information blog
VIDEO: ‘23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America’
Beyoncé, Rihanna,
and More Join
Powerful Video
‘23 Ways You Could
Be Killed If You Are
Black in America’
By Dee LockettFollow @Dee_Lockett
If last week’s police shootings of
Alton Sterling and Philando Castile taught us anything, it’s that black
lives can be taken for any number of senseless reasons. A new
collaboration between Alicia Keys, Mic, and the We Are Here Movement attempts
to highlight just how easy it is to be killed for being black, in a
video featuring some of the biggest names in entertainment. Beyoncé,
Rihanna, Chance the Rapper, Bono, and more all speak in “23 Ways You
Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America,” each representing a victim
of police brutality and the unjustified cause for their murder. In the
case of Philando Castile, he died for merely “riding in your
girlfriend’s car with a child in the back,” Beyoncé says. “Selling CDs
outside of a supermarket,” Taraji P. Henson says in disbelief, on behalf
of Alton Sterling.
More than a dozen celebrities — including Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Kevin Hart — have signed a petition urging President Obama and Congress to “right our historic wrongs and heal the wounds of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to pursue happiness,” adding their names next to that of a black person killed by police. Most poignantly, Rihanna’s signature represents “All Black People.”
More than a dozen celebrities — including Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Kevin Hart — have signed a petition urging President Obama and Congress to “right our historic wrongs and heal the wounds of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to pursue happiness,” adding their names next to that of a black person killed by police. Most poignantly, Rihanna’s signature represents “All Black People.”
White America, North American Africans and Communal Suicide
Thursday, July 14, 2016
White America, North American Africans and Communal Suicide
"Homicide and suicide are two sides of the same coin!"--Dr. Nathan Hare
Suicide among North American Africans is a communal affair, or shall we say societal affair since we live in a hostile environment that invites us to suicide by the very nature of our existence that is marginalized at best, but it is our psycho-social condition that leaves us no way out of suicide on so many levels. The very air we breathe is killing us, but what choice do we have? The food we eat is killing us but how many can afford to shop at Whole Foods? One piece of organic chicken for $5.00? Get real!
Education is toxic for it inculcates us with self-hatred that is destructive to our mental equilibrium. Ancestor Amiri Baraka once said, "We send our children to these colleges and universities and they come back hating us and everything we're about--and they don't even know what we're about!" Dr. Wade Nobles said, "Our men are in prison, but our women are in prison at these universities and colleges." One of my daughters who graduated from Yale and Stanford Law School, told me she and her girlfriends found it almost impossible to date a Black male student. What does this do to the Black sense of self? A beautiful young lady who graduated from Spelman informed me she thought she was black and ugly! So many times Black lives don't matter even to ourselves since we are addicted to white supremacy Type II (Dr. Nathan Hare, foreword to How to Recover from White Supremacy by Marvin X, aka Dr. M). Even our best and brightest live lives of rejection leading to depression and death. And when it is not outright suicide, many of us fall victim to diseases caused by the hostile environment, including and especially the workplace. When my dear friend, Poet/Professor/Critic Sherley A. Williams, died at 51 years old, Dr. William H. Grier, psychiatrist and co-author of the 60s classic Black Rage, told his son to tell me, "Tell Marvin Sherley didn't die from asthma but from the hostile environment at the University of California, San Diego." Indeed, Sherley often told me her job was toxic and that she hadn't spoken with her colleagues for years! Three brilliant Black women professors at UC Berkeley made their transition, we think, for the same reason as Sherley: Barbara Christian, June Jordan and VeVe Clark. Is not continuing to work in a hostile, toxic environment a form of suicide?
I talked with a friend today who was at work but said she wasn't feeling well but could not go to the hospital because she would be penalized as she had taken too many sick leaves. Yes, she works in a hostile environment as well. Imagine, you are sick but can't afford to leave the job for medical attention. Is this the glory of free market capitalism and wage slavery?
I have no doubt we suffer a plethora of psycho-somatic disorders from America's toxic society. I have read that due to fear of the medical profession and its known experimentation on Blacks (beginning with gynecologists who began this branch of medicine by practicing on African women in the American slave system without providing any anesthesia), many bourgeoisie Blacks do not seek medical attention even when they have excellent medical insurance. Is this not a suicidal attitude?
Because of white jealousy and envy (along with the crab in the barrel mentality of Black co-workers in competition with their Black fellow workers) most jobs for us are in a hostile work environment that ultimately kills.
Of course chronic unemployment leads to self destructive behavior such as drug abuse and domestic violence. Surely, partner violence leads us to harm our partner and ourselves. Often the violence is fatal, so we kill our partner and ourselves, but is not our partner part of ourselves, hence we kill ourselves. Black on Black homicide is thus a form of suicide because when we kill our brother/sister we kill ourselves! The notion of self is a communal idea or even better, a communal reality, not individual. The self is born of tribal and national mythology and ritual. Can we therefore imagine how pervasive homicide and suicide impacts not only the individual, but the family, village and national group? As a result of the last few days of police violence and the ongoing internal violence, North American Africans are suffering trauma and grief.
Imagine all the families whose members are killed by the police or another Black, but the family tragedy never hits the headlines, never enjoy marches and rallies, and often there is only a miller lite police investigation, for after all, Black lives don't matter, yes, even though we are children of the Creator, precious and holy, each and every one of us.
So we know many homicides are in reality suicides because the person put himself in a homicidal situation where the person was killed because they didn't have the strength to kill themselves. Sometimes we escalate a situation to the point we don't give a damn whether we die or live, so often we are killed but if there had been a strong desire to live we wouldn't have escalated the situation to the point of death.
Sandra Bland
For sure, many of us engage in unsafe sex that is suicidal for in the deep structure of our minds is the attitude of not caring whether we live or die, as in the case of many persons who contract HIV/AIDS from unsafe sex.
--Marvin X
7/14/16
Marvin X's son, Darrel, suffered manic depression and under the influence of psycho-drugs walked into a train at 39 years old. He graduated from UC Berkeley in Arabic and Middle Eastern literature, studied at the University of Damascus, Syria on a Fulbright; also studied at the American University, Cairo, Egypt, and did graduate work at Harvard University. "Dr. Nathan Hare comforted me with the fact that my son's death was one side of the same coin. Hare reminded me Malcolm and Martin died at the same age." Well, death is death by any name! Don't make me quote the infamous Hillary Clinton, "What difference does it make?"
www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com
White America, North American Africans and Communal Suicide
Thursday, July 14, 2016
White America, North American Africans and Communal Suicide
"Homicide and suicide are two sides of the same coin!"--Dr. Nathan Hare
Suicide among North American Africans is a communal affair, or shall we say societal affair since we live in a hostile environment that invites us to suicide by the very nature of our existence that is marginalized at best, but it is our psycho-social condition that leaves us no way out of suicide on so many levels. The very air we breathe is killing us, but what choice do we have? The food we eat is killing us but how many can afford to shop at Whole Foods? One piece of organic chicken for $5.00? Get real!
Education is toxic for it inculcates us with self-hatred that is destructive to our mental equilibrium. Ancestor Amiri Baraka once said, "We send our children to these colleges and universities and they come back hating us and everything we're about--and they don't even know what we're about!" Dr. Wade Nobles said, "Our men are in prison, but our women are in prison at these universities and colleges." One of my daughters who graduated from Yale and Stanford Law School, told me she and her girlfriends found it almost impossible to date a Black male student. What does this do to the Black sense of self? A beautiful young lady who graduated from Spelman informed me she thought she was black and ugly! So many times Black lives don't matter even to ourselves since we are addicted to white supremacy Type II (Dr. Nathan Hare, foreword to How to Recover from White Supremacy by Marvin X, aka Dr. M). Even our best and brightest live lives of rejection leading to depression and death. And when it is not outright suicide, many of us fall victim to diseases caused by the hostile environment, including and especially the workplace. When my dear friend, Poet/Professor/Critic Sherley A. Williams, died at 51 years old, Dr. William H. Grier, psychiatrist and co-author of the 60s classic Black Rage, told his son to tell me, "Tell Marvin Sherley didn't die from asthma but from the hostile environment at the University of California, San Diego." Indeed, Sherley often told me her job was toxic and that she hadn't spoken with her colleagues for years! Three brilliant Black women professors at UC Berkeley made their transition, we think, for the same reason as Sherley: Barbara Christian, June Jordan and VeVe Clark. Is not continuing to work in a hostile, toxic environment a form of suicide?
I talked with a friend today who was at work but said she wasn't feeling well but could not go to the hospital because she would be penalized as she had taken too many sick leaves. Yes, she works in a hostile environment as well. Imagine, you are sick but can't afford to leave the job for medical attention. Is this the glory of free market capitalism and wage slavery?
I have no doubt we suffer a plethora of psycho-somatic disorders from America's toxic society. I have read that due to fear of the medical profession and its known experimentation on Blacks (beginning with gynecologists who began this branch of medicine by practicing on African women in the American slave system without providing any anesthesia), many bourgeoisie Blacks do not seek medical attention even when they have excellent medical insurance. Is this not a suicidal attitude?
Because of white jealousy and envy (along with the crab in the barrel mentality of Black co-workers in competition with their Black fellow workers) most jobs for us are in a hostile work environment that ultimately kills.
Of course chronic unemployment leads to self destructive behavior such as drug abuse and domestic violence. Surely, partner violence leads us to harm our partner and ourselves. Often the violence is fatal, so we kill our partner and ourselves, but is not our partner part of ourselves, hence we kill ourselves. Black on Black homicide is thus a form of suicide because when we kill our brother/sister we kill ourselves! The notion of self is a communal idea or even better, a communal reality, not individual. The self is born of tribal and national mythology and ritual. Can we therefore imagine how pervasive homicide and suicide impacts not only the individual, but the family, village and national group? As a result of the last few days of police violence and the ongoing internal violence, North American Africans are suffering trauma and grief.
Imagine all the families whose members are killed by the police or another Black, but the family tragedy never hits the headlines, never enjoy marches and rallies, and often there is only a miller lite police investigation, for after all, Black lives don't matter, yes, even though we are children of the Creator, precious and holy, each and every one of us.
So we know many homicides are in reality suicides because the person put himself in a homicidal situation where the person was killed because they didn't have the strength to kill themselves. Sometimes we escalate a situation to the point we don't give a damn whether we die or live, so often we are killed but if there had been a strong desire to live we wouldn't have escalated the situation to the point of death.
Sandra Bland
For sure, many of us engage in unsafe sex that is suicidal for in the deep structure of our minds is the attitude of not caring whether we live or die, as in the case of many persons who contract HIV/AIDS from unsafe sex.
--Marvin X
7/14/16
Marvin X's son, Darrel, suffered manic depression and under the influence of psycho-drugs walked into a train at 39 years old. He graduated from UC Berkeley in Arabic and Middle Eastern literature, studied at the University of Damascus, Syria on a Fulbright; also studied at the American University, Cairo, Egypt, and did graduate work at Harvard University. "Dr. Nathan Hare comforted me with the fact that my son's death was one side of the same coin. Hare reminded me Malcolm and Martin died at the same age." Well, death is death by any name! Don't make me quote the infamous Hillary Clinton, "What difference does it make?"
City of Oakland must support Universal African Flag Day!
As a bold act of Kujichagulia,
self-determination, what if representatives of the array of
organizations and institutions in the Pan African world resolve to adopt
the Red, Black and Green Flag
that the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey bequeathed to African people as
a unifying symbol, as our Flag and proclaim August 17, Garvey’s
birthday, Universal African Flag Day?
--Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World
The Black Arts Movement Business District calls upon the City of Oakland to display the above flag as a banner throughout the Black Arts Movement Business District immediately and without further delay, certainly, by Marcus Garvey's birthday, August 17. We further demand that the words LOVE LIFE be placed at the bottom of the banner as agreed upon by Donald Lacy, founder of the Love Live Foundation. The Oakland City Council has approved LOVE LIFE as the official motto of Oakland.
We call upon Mayor Libby Schaaf and President of the Oakland City Council, Lynette McElhaney to make this happen as a priority for the mental health of the North American African citizens of Oakland and all the citizens of Oakland. We call upon the City Council to resolve August 17 as Universal African Flag Day in Oakland.
When I was in Newark, New Jersey for the last rites of my friend and comrade, poet/activist Amiri Baraka, his son Ras then a city councilman but was running for mayor. He told me then, "Marvin we got Black brothers on the police force with legal guns who back us, i.e., the community." And I observed positive police/community relations. It is a different feeling when you know the police are on your side. As a matter of fact, during the time of the funeral the police were in and out of the Baraka's house socializing with and protecting Newark's "first family". Police blocked off the block where the Baraka family lives in the hood.
I was informed some of the officers had grown up with the Baraka children or their parents had been part of the Newark black consciousness, cultural and political movement that was critical in the election of Newark's first Black mayor, Kenneth Gibson. In short, the police were an integral part of the community, as opposed to an occupying army.
Now let's be clear, Ras informed me there were police who supported the opposition, but he felt confident with the percentage of officers on his (the peoples) side. Ironically, I was at the Baraka house once on AB's birthday (October 7) when the opposition sent officers with warrants to arrest his sons for failure to pay child support. This was done by his political enemies to rattle his cage on his birthday. They do play hard ball in Newark and the opposition is serious. There are former Newark mayors who went down in disgrace for their negrocities (AB term, not mine, he wanted me to let you know) but have sons that they want to be mayor.
Of course Ras won the election as mayor, guided by his brother Amiri, Jr.'s (Middy) strategic planning. Their mother, Mrs. Amina Baraka, has kept me informed of her son's progress as mayor. Even the New York Times gave him brownie points for his first 100 days in office.
Mrs. Baraka informed me there have been no police killings since Ras became Mayor, although brothers killing brothers has not stopped. Mayor Baraka has police walking through the hood, Black and White officers, smiling and greeting the people. Mrs. Baraka said she doesn't know, and many people don't know, what to think of the white officers smiling so much.
But clearly, community policing is working, thus Newark can be and should be a model for cities trying to upgrade their police departments from acting like brute beasts in blue uniforms. Why should police take the life of the mostly poor, mentally ill and drug addicted? Why would you kill a man hustling single cigarettes, DVDs and CDs? Why would you kill a man for a broken tail light or failure to signal a lane change.? Why should a man suffer a broken spine from a ride in the paddy wagon?
One year ago, July 10, Sandra Bland was arrested for failure to use signal to change lanes, later found dead in her jail cell.
Surely after all the hell the Black Panther Party suffered trying to combat police terror and brutality fifty years ago( and we celebrate their 50th anniversary for the sacrifice they made), we must try something new, unless we want to continue bumping our heads against a stone wall.
We don't have the power to defeat them because they have too much back up, e.g., the army, navy, air force, national guard, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. At some point we will need a reconciliation or things will go from bad to worse as happened in Dallas, Texas. The nature of the panther is to strike when it is backed up against the wall or corner.
After seeing with my own eyes that there can be at least a symbiotic relationship between the people and the police, I've concluded that we need to get brothers and sisters on the police force, especially in cities where we are in the majority, and the white officers must be socialized to understand they work for the people, the people don't work for them. The people pay their salaries but not to be brutalized and killed under the color of law. We agree with Chief Brown in Dallas who called for people to be the solution rather than the problem, to become police officers. All they need do is community consciousness, similar to the police who arrested my in Belize, Central America, when I was being deported for entering the country illegally. While I was at the police station awaiting deportation, they surrounded me and when they had me in the center of a circle, they begged me to teach them about Black Power, the real reason I was being deported. Wouldn't it be nice if the American police would ask the Black Lives Matter people to teach them about Black Power rather than try to ridicule the BLM people out of existence because just as the police ain't going nowhere, we don't think Black Lives Matter is either. Stay Woke!
Marvin X, poet/activist, community planner of the Black Arts Movement Business District and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf who is suffering from a police prostitution scandal. She dismissed three police chiefs in nine days. As per police/community relations, she claims the OPD has made improvements, but community activists are not satisfied with her ever since she began her tenure by meeting with the OPD rather than the community. With the sex scandal, the OPD has obviously
betrayed her faith and trust in them as protectors and servants of the community. Activist Cat Brooks of the Anti-police Terror Projectn is organizing a recall. We think Mayor Schaaf might benefit with a call to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
--Marvin X
7/11/16
--Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World
The Black Arts Movement Business District calls upon the City of Oakland to display the above flag as a banner throughout the Black Arts Movement Business District immediately and without further delay, certainly, by Marcus Garvey's birthday, August 17. We further demand that the words LOVE LIFE be placed at the bottom of the banner as agreed upon by Donald Lacy, founder of the Love Live Foundation. The Oakland City Council has approved LOVE LIFE as the official motto of Oakland.
We call upon Mayor Libby Schaaf and President of the Oakland City Council, Lynette McElhaney to make this happen as a priority for the mental health of the North American African citizens of Oakland and all the citizens of Oakland. We call upon the City Council to resolve August 17 as Universal African Flag Day in Oakland.
Police: from Problem to Solution:
the Newark, New Jersey Model
Newark, NJ Mayor Ras Baraka and Marvin X
When I was in Newark, New Jersey for the last rites of my friend and comrade, poet/activist Amiri Baraka, his son Ras then a city councilman but was running for mayor. He told me then, "Marvin we got Black brothers on the police force with legal guns who back us, i.e., the community." And I observed positive police/community relations. It is a different feeling when you know the police are on your side. As a matter of fact, during the time of the funeral the police were in and out of the Baraka's house socializing with and protecting Newark's "first family". Police blocked off the block where the Baraka family lives in the hood.
I was informed some of the officers had grown up with the Baraka children or their parents had been part of the Newark black consciousness, cultural and political movement that was critical in the election of Newark's first Black mayor, Kenneth Gibson. In short, the police were an integral part of the community, as opposed to an occupying army.
Now let's be clear, Ras informed me there were police who supported the opposition, but he felt confident with the percentage of officers on his (the peoples) side. Ironically, I was at the Baraka house once on AB's birthday (October 7) when the opposition sent officers with warrants to arrest his sons for failure to pay child support. This was done by his political enemies to rattle his cage on his birthday. They do play hard ball in Newark and the opposition is serious. There are former Newark mayors who went down in disgrace for their negrocities (AB term, not mine, he wanted me to let you know) but have sons that they want to be mayor.
Of course Ras won the election as mayor, guided by his brother Amiri, Jr.'s (Middy) strategic planning. Their mother, Mrs. Amina Baraka, has kept me informed of her son's progress as mayor. Even the New York Times gave him brownie points for his first 100 days in office.
Mrs. Baraka informed me there have been no police killings since Ras became Mayor, although brothers killing brothers has not stopped. Mayor Baraka has police walking through the hood, Black and White officers, smiling and greeting the people. Mrs. Baraka said she doesn't know, and many people don't know, what to think of the white officers smiling so much.
But clearly, community policing is working, thus Newark can be and should be a model for cities trying to upgrade their police departments from acting like brute beasts in blue uniforms. Why should police take the life of the mostly poor, mentally ill and drug addicted? Why would you kill a man hustling single cigarettes, DVDs and CDs? Why would you kill a man for a broken tail light or failure to signal a lane change.? Why should a man suffer a broken spine from a ride in the paddy wagon?
One year ago, July 10, Sandra Bland was arrested for failure to use signal to change lanes, later found dead in her jail cell.
Surely after all the hell the Black Panther Party suffered trying to combat police terror and brutality fifty years ago( and we celebrate their 50th anniversary for the sacrifice they made), we must try something new, unless we want to continue bumping our heads against a stone wall.
We don't have the power to defeat them because they have too much back up, e.g., the army, navy, air force, national guard, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. At some point we will need a reconciliation or things will go from bad to worse as happened in Dallas, Texas. The nature of the panther is to strike when it is backed up against the wall or corner.
After seeing with my own eyes that there can be at least a symbiotic relationship between the people and the police, I've concluded that we need to get brothers and sisters on the police force, especially in cities where we are in the majority, and the white officers must be socialized to understand they work for the people, the people don't work for them. The people pay their salaries but not to be brutalized and killed under the color of law. We agree with Chief Brown in Dallas who called for people to be the solution rather than the problem, to become police officers. All they need do is community consciousness, similar to the police who arrested my in Belize, Central America, when I was being deported for entering the country illegally. While I was at the police station awaiting deportation, they surrounded me and when they had me in the center of a circle, they begged me to teach them about Black Power, the real reason I was being deported. Wouldn't it be nice if the American police would ask the Black Lives Matter people to teach them about Black Power rather than try to ridicule the BLM people out of existence because just as the police ain't going nowhere, we don't think Black Lives Matter is either. Stay Woke!
Meanwhile back in Oaktown fada git down!
Marvin X, poet/activist, community planner of the Black Arts Movement Business District and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf who is suffering from a police prostitution scandal. She dismissed three police chiefs in nine days. As per police/community relations, she claims the OPD has made improvements, but community activists are not satisfied with her ever since she began her tenure by meeting with the OPD rather than the community. With the sex scandal, the OPD has obviously
betrayed her faith and trust in them as protectors and servants of the community. Activist Cat Brooks of the Anti-police Terror Projectn is organizing a recall. We think Mayor Schaaf might benefit with a call to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
--Marvin X
7/11/16
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Institute of the Black World Defends Black Lives Matter
Press Release
Contact: Don Rojas
Email: donjbrojas@gmail.com
Institute of the Black World Defends Black Lives Matter
Calls on Pres. Obama to Visit Baton Rouge and St. Paul, as Well as Dallas
New York, July 10, 2016...The Institute of the Black World 21st
Century (IBW) is defending the Black Lives Matter Movement against
false criticism from right-wing political pundits that the Movement was
responsible for the tragic deaths of five Dallas police officers.
While
condemning the murders, by callous policemen and by a disturbed former
Afghanistan veteran, IBW is also calling on President Obama to be "fair
and balanced" in his posture towards the horrific and terrorist-like
murders in recent days by visiting Baton Rouge and St. Paul after he has
visited Dallas on Tuesday and to demonstrate, in both words and deeds,
his equal concern for the families and communities of those who died in
all three cities.
In
citing the official statement put out by Black Lives Matter (BLM)
leaders on Friday, IBW said the unvarnished truth is that the Black
Lives Matter Movement has never called for the murder of police officers
and has said over and over again that it is time in this country for
policing to be accountable, transparent and responsible.
"We
agree with the BLM that this is what communities in the United States
want to see from the people who protect and serve them," said IBW's
President Dr. Ron Daniels. "There needs to be accountable, responsive,
transparent policing that has oversight from those communities and that
is accountable to the communities they are supposed to protect and
serve. We also call on civil rights and human rights organizations to
stand with the Black Lives Matter Movement to ensure that they are not
scapegoated, repressed and marginalized."
Daniels
called for an urgent national conversation on race and structural
racism saying such a conversation must involve all strata of society and
should be more than "just talk and pious rhetoric" and, instead, must
produce a public policy agenda of action items that include
thorough-going criminal justice reform, comprehensive community-based
economic development, and a reparations program that seeks social
justice and a starts a process of repairing and healing the ongoing
devastating social and psychological consequences from the historical
crimes of chattel slavery and legal Jim Crow segregation.
"America
needs to find the honesty and moral courage to confront the sins of its
past and the living consequences of those sins today," said Daniels.
"Now is the time for all people of good will to commit themselves to
this imperative."
The
IBW President also noted that the time is long overdue to end the War
on Drugs which over the past 25 years has contributed to a spike in
police brutality, accompanied by an explosion in the mass incarceration
of young black and brown men in vastly disproportionate numbers across
the country. "The War on Drugs has been a war on black and brown
communities which has broken thousands of families and beat a path of
social and economic devastation across the United States," said Daniels.
The
events in the USA in recent days have sparked outrage and concern in
black communities across the world, manifested in a huge demonstration
in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement this weekend in London,
another in Canada, and expressions of horror in radio and television
call-in programs across the Caribbean and in the government of the
Bahamas issuing a travel advisory urging its citizens visiting the USA
to exercise "extreme caution around police."
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