Monday, September 18, 2017

Marvin X In the Light Tour speaks to Moorish Americans on the History of Islam in the Bay Area



Marvin X extended his In the Light Tour to the Moorish American community today. He spoke to the Moors on the History of Islam in the Bay Area, recalling  a historic work he began several years ago His address was recorded with pics by The Movement Newspaper


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Saturday, September 16, 2017

Mental Health and the Black Arts Movement



Aside from the axiom that there is a thin line between creativity and insanity, we experienced a plethora of artists with psycho-social disabilities before, during and after the height of the Black Arts Movement. It seems that Mother Nature realized those with sanity and purity could not save us, therefore Mother sent her motley crew of psychopathic artists/activists to participate in the Black liberation Movement of the 60s. Of course it has been known since ancient times that artists and the insane are often one and the same! History has also taught us the politicos can suffer psychopathology as well. For sure, psychopathic behavior was perhaps the chief internal flaw in BAM and BLM. When Harold Cruse presented his classic Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, certainly he was suggesting a mental crisis along with the aesthetic dilemma, i.e., what is black, what is beautiful. Why do we think James Baldwin is ugly until we put him face to face with that Benin statue, and suddenly, especially for me, he was beautiful. Of course our aesthetics originated in our mental paralysis or addiction to white supremacy!


So BAM and the BLM suffered primal jealousy and envy, complicated by the need to dominate and exercise power over those we felt beneath us, especially in intelligence. When we, Black Dialogue Magazine staff, were invited by Eldridge Cleaver to the Soledad Prison Culture Club, 1966, chaired by himself and Alprentis Bunchy Carter, my mind immediately told me EC was and would be a most dangerous so-called Negro when released. After all, he was a well read seasoned killer whose behavior was certainly not modified by the California or Department of Corrections. If the CDC had taught him anything that would become detrimental to the BLM, it was to save his ass at all costs. Shall we call this a prisoner's matra? Shall we call it the mantra of those natural born opportunists and psychopaths who have no scruples about immoral behavior to satisfy their lust for power and satisfaction.

For sure, I knew he was no match for Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, my comrades from Merritt College. They may have had their psychopathics but on the scale of mild, moderate and severe, they were mild compared to My Friend the Devil!

But I saw my friend challenge and debate the greatest minds of political America, e.g., Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, mentally overwhelm the Christian Born Again masters with his testimony of seeing Jesus in the Moon, which I transcribed and entitled The Golden Shower, at his request since I was his chief of staff, secretary, bodyguard, photographer and organizer of his ministry The Eldridge Cleaver Crusades.

We see here that the psychosis extended beyond the BAM and BLM, yes, into the now! Alas, think of what James Baldwin told me in my interview with him at his cold, New York apartment, December, 1968: "It's a wonder we all haven't gone stark raving mad!" He also said that this Xmas season, "How can America celebrate the Prince of Peace while we bomb the hell out of Vietnam!"

Imagine, our mental condition has now become severe to the point our people exclaim, "Man, I can't ready yo paper cause I am overwhelmed with shit in my life!"

Tis true, today we face conundrums that do indeed overwhelm our mental capacities. Yet the supreme irony is that all the knowledge in the universe is on our cell phone as we babble endlessly about where you at, where you at, where you at? The Book tells us the people were destroyed for lack of knowledge.

A dear sister gave me a quote, "They have knowledge of that which they know not!"

As a result of isms and schisms, we are indeed overwhelmed while claiming "I'm Woke!" while sleep walking in fear, terror and dread. My daughter calls many of her generation "The pseudo-conscious!"
You got "dread dead," i.e., brothers with dreads but still dead, entwined in the blood hair of Babylon woman.










As per solution, we have advocated a recovery process based on my book How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy. Those surviving members of the BAM and BLA and our children of the Hip Hop generation and our grandchildren, yet have a chance as Dr. Hare said, "To sit down together and get our heads together!"

Marvin X: A praise song for Mumia Abu Jamal, freedom fighter in the dungeon of the beast

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a convicted murderer, American activist and journalist who became involved in black nationalism in his youth and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970. He left the party and became a radio reporter, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.


When we appraise the work of Mumia Abu Jamal that has been documented by Babylon since he joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 14 (in the tradition of Lil' Bobby Hutton, who joined the BPP at 16), we must surely praise him for his tenacity but simultaneously condemn ourselves for not displaying the ineluctable energy of Mumia, especially when he issues forth from the dungeon while we exist out here on the big yard of Babylon. How can a man locked down on death row and later struggling on in spite of a life sentence, put an entire nation upon his shoulders without blinking for a moment, even when faced with disease and everyday trauma of life in the dungeon, yet he stands tall as the tallest tree in the forest, as fearless as the greatest warrior in African, and for that matter, human history, not to suggest Africans are not human, as some would indeed suggest!


Mumia Abu Jamal, we praise you and all political prisoners in Babylon and call for the general amnesty of all the men, women and children caught in the shackles of Babylon, neo-slaves under the 13th Amendment of the US Constiution wherein involuntary servitude is legal. We send our prayers and every ounce of our spiritual energy to you, Mumia, that you may continue as freedom fighters even though you reside on the lowest level of hell in the belly of the beast. We have no doubt that though your body is in captivity, your mind, heart and spirit flies freely like the hawk who soars so smoothly in the sky, gliding silently while focused on devouring its prey. Sail on, Mumia, guide us to freedom's victory! Teach us how to stand as you stand with shackles on your feet, though here in the big yard the shackles are not on our feet but on our minds and spirit. We appreciate you, appreciate you, appreciate you. Even down in your dungeon, we know you are freer than most of us will ever be!
Marvin X/El Muhajir
9/16/17






Friday, September 15, 2017

Marvin X Reads Poetry at the Brecht Forum with Ras Moshe

Marvin X Reads Poetry at the Brecht Forum with Ras Moshe

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Call for a Rally Against Racism and White Supremacy at Oakland Whole Foods Market

The Movement Newspaper is calling for a Rally Against Racism and White Supremacy at Oakland Whole Foods Market. On July 17, 2017, our Design Editor, Adam Turner was the victim of an unprovoked physical and verbal attack by the WF security guard. While assisting a man with mental disabilities, Adam was pepper sprayed and called a fucking nigger! A few months before the Adam Turner incident, another North American African male was beaten unconscious by a security guard at the same store. Numerous North American Africans have encountered racism and white supremacy. One NAA male employee quit working because he claimed his fellow employees called the NAA customers niggers! It is clear Oakland WF is a toxic environment for NAA. We therefore call for a rally against this racist environment. We invite the community for a speak-out and invite the following activists to dialogue with  the community on this matter (date,time and place TBA):