Sunday, May 6, 2018

Oakland's Musical Tribute to Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare

Oakland's Musical Tribute to Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare






We give all praise to Musical Director/Singer Bryant Bolling and the singers he gathered for a musical tribute to Drs. Julia and Nathan Hare. Dr. Nathan Hare sent Bolling a list of their favorite songs and Bolling selected from the list a few numbelrs for the singers and pianist Ben Jones. It was a small audience turn out but Marvin X convinced Bolling has hit show that must be performed again with proper promotion. Marvin suggested two venues: the Black Repertory Group Theatre, Berkeley and San Francisco's African American Culture Center, Fulton Street.

Those who missed today's concert missed a beautiful musical tribute to the Black revolutionary couple who spread radical black cultural consciousness coast to coast. Dr. Julia Hare's last hurrah is her speech at Tavis Smiley's Black Forum, see YouTube. Dr. Nathan Hare, with PhDs in Sociology and Clinical Psychology, is considered the Father of Black Studies since he was the first chair of a Black Studies Department on a major university at San Francisco State College/now University. He was the center of the longest student strike in American academic history. Ultimately he was removed as Chair but the strike of Black and Third World students established Black and Ethnic Studies at SFSU. Marvin X has agreed to write the Untold Story of the Black Student Revolution at SFSU.

Today's concert began with The Negro National Anthem performed by Marilyn Reynold. As I stood in honor of our national anthem, I have finally accepted that it is the consensus of the people this song represents our national identity, therefore, in my old age, I accept it. As a 60s revolutionary, I favored Farrakhan's White Man's Heaven is the Black Man's Hell along with Claude McKay's poem If We Must Die, also used by Sir Winston Churchill to rally the British in WWII.

In his deep baritone, Director/singer Bolling continued with My Way and Didn't We. Even though he's never met the Hares, Bolling knew enough to organize this tribute concert with his own money. He took a loss but I was so impressed the high quality of his singers that I will do all I can to help produce it as I said above.

Singer Will Herring performed The Great Pretender, For Your Precious Love and the In Crowd. I was shocked at Will's vocals since I've known him as a trumpet player. I had no idea he was a singer and a good one! When pianist Ben Jones couldn't get the right key, Will continued acapella to the joy of the audience.


During the testimonial time, Will said he became aware of  Dr. Nathan Hare as a student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, alma mater of Paul Robeson. When Will went into a black history rant, Director Bolling reminded him to stay focused on the Hares. Will said he received copies of Dr. Hare's Black Scholar Magazine while in residence at the Black House student center. Although Will's rant on Black history that included recalling the USA's persecution of the great Paul Robeson, the similarity between Paul Robeson and Dr. Nathan Hare is striking. Both were white listed for their unapologetic Black radicalism. It is suspected Paul Robeson was poisoned by the CIA, especially for his Communist beliefs. As I departed the concert hall at the elegant Alteneim Senior Housing Center, one of the two ladies departing with me asked, "Marvin, do you think 'they' put something is Julia's coffee?" I replied, "One of my students believed after her speech at Tavis Smiley's Black Forum, when she stole the show, they had to put something in her tea." Dr. Nathan Hare, in his letter read to the concert organizers and attendees, noted that a Black Newspaper in England gave her a centerfold spread with the headline Dr. Julia Hare--the Female Malcolm X. She had an acid tongue of truth.


When I addressed the audience, I told them the concert reminded me of the many times I visited the Hares.  Julia would find her way to the grand piano to give me a private concert. It is heartbreaking to see her suffering Alzheimer but today's concert took me back to all those tunes she played for me, after all she was a trained classical pianist.

When she and Nathan first met, he notes she was the skinny girl who'd won a music contest at Oklahoma's Langston University. They have enjoyed a marriage of 60 years, while most of our marriages don't last 60 days! In the Nation of Islam, many of the marriages were called 30 day wonders! No more on this subject at this time.

We heard from the elegant Lady Sunrise singing What A Difference A Day Makes and Softly As in the Morning Sunrise, her signature tune.

Accompanied by pianist Ben Jones' version of Afro Blue, poet Zakiyyah read three poems dedicated to the Hares: Father of Black Studies, Lady Malcolm X and Earth Rebirth, soft poems touching our hearts, especially Lady Malcolm X that she undoubtedly was, with a mouth that wouldn't shut up. Dr. Nathan Hare said she never stopped talking, even in her sleep! Why do you think I got a second PhD in Clinical Psychology?"

But in his letter to the Tribute Concert, he told how he was tricked into  confining her that is the immediate desire of the mental health workers, but he caught himself and had her released when he realized he could not confine the woman he loved! And after all, confinement is for criminals, not the sick! He told how when he departed from visiting her in confinement and had to slip away, he would hear her calling his name and beating on the door.

Years ago, she was in hospice but came out to live another day, in fact, he wrote, several years, although she is going down slow, doesn't talk any more, or walk, and maybe she knows him and maybe not, but she loves music and the purpose of the concert was to video music for her listening pleasure, so it didn't matter if a large audience showed up today. For sure, I would say the performing artists would easily cost $10,000.00 for today's concert.

Pianist Ben Jones rendered a medley of tunes loved by Julia, including In A Sentimental Mood. I was overwhelmed by Lady Sunrise and the Ensemble version of To Be Young Gifted and Black.
--Marvin X
5/6/18

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Marvin X, Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Nathan Hare, Attorney Amira Jackmon

Friday, May 4, 2018

Marvin X poem: Oh, Ancestors Speak to Me




"Marvin, this is a Beautiful Poem. I saw myself in it and others that I know in it."

--Jerry Varnado, San Francisco State University Strike leader, 1968

Oh, Ancestors Speak to Me
Digame
Digame
Digame
por favor
speak to me
my legs cannot move if you do not speak
your voice is the spirit in my walk in my soul
I cannot move without your direction
digame
digame por favor
you guided me then departed
I am here alone in this wilderness
shall I be ashamed alone
can I walk without trembling
you stood so long
I thought forever you would hold my hand
strengthen my knees
you taught me don't get weak
stand tall
stay solid don't bend
solid
you told me in prison
Allah loves a soldier
hates cowards
Allah loves warriors
hates cowards
stay solid
don't bend

Oh Batin
speak
digame
Ali Sharif Bey
speak Islam
Sunni Shia Ahmaddia Sufi
Nation of Islam
speak
polytheism  Islam
Tell me
black stone rejected
corner stone
we black stone
rejected despised
socalled Negro
tool fool of the world
black stone
corner stone
yes Paradise Jahlove teach
they love everything about you but you
Lou Rawls say
what did you do to be
so black and blue
crucified on the cross and lynching tree of America, world
Ancestor Rev. James Cone
we love you
liberation theology supreme
a love supreme
a love supreme
Rev. James Cone
Jesus socalled Negro
crucified daily
can't drink coffee Starbucks
can't breathe
we here for you
can't breathe
can't talk walk
we hear
speak ancestors
digame
por favor
digame
speak from shanties tent cities speak
speak Mexico city dirt floor huts
speak Belize flying roaches
no black flag
let roaches live
digame Jamaica
digame Trinidad
digame Venezuela
speak
tin roof huts
speak poor but happy
speak Mexico
Speak Belize Honduras
speak Afro-Columbia
speak Tenderloin San Francisco
my home
cardboard box home Crack fiend
love in cardboard box
smoke crack
crack ho recite fatiha in Arabic
give head cardboard box love
homeless love
Oh, Tenderloin
I claim every alley doorway hindu hilton hotel
what alley I do not know
what doorway
what bus stop BART station line to line
tell me of cold winter nights East Bay Terminal
There with my brothers
Edward
Nadar
Squirrel
Muslims on the bottom
Supreme wisdom Muslims
on the bottom
I got it but didn't get it
Supreme Wisdom
How can I escapeTenderloin
dope fiends of every kind
good lovin' ho's
she married her ho' at Glide Church
put dat ho' on the street same night
took me home to smoke crack
no man in her house before me
lesbian pimp ho' bitch
no man in her house before me good pimpin' ass bitch

I live on bottom of the world
sea to sea
country to country
religion to religion
politics to politics
ideology to ideology
no matter Left Right

Digame
speak to me
I stand on shoulders
walk on feet
dream dreams you dreamed
No original thoughts beyond thoughts of freedom
I shall not betray you
sacred dreams not lost in madness of globalism
we are not PC diaper baby snow flakes
suffering micro aggression
stand tall
we endured FOI officials in Chicago
Supreme Captain Raymond Sharieff
National Secretary John Ali
Captain Elijah Muhamad
baddest niggas in the world
except when I got home to SF and Guru Alonzo Batin
said I was a punk motherfucker to confess to niggas worse than I could ever b
Batin said I was a punk bitch ass nigga for confessing to rats snakes vipers cobras
Batin gave manhood training
Black Arts West/Black House San Francisco
teach  Batin
Criminal Muslim supreme
Heroin addict
Imam in prison
addict/iman big yard
true believer
can't pimp Batin
call him hypocrite Muslim
think for self Muslim
gangster Muslim
true to the game
game true to you
Batin
stand on your shoulders
devoured your bean soup
wheat bread butter honey
Whiting fish
all night long science
marijuana science marijuana
Speak Batin
Speak Ali Sheriff Bey
Speak Aaron Ali
Master Teacher linguistics
Speak Brother Edward
raised us from  dead at San Francisco State University
UC Berkeley San Jose State University
Speak Brother Edward blessed us with supreme wisdom when we were deaf dumb blind playing bid whist in cafeteria at San Francisco State University.
Digame
Digame
Digame!
--Marvin X
5/4/18

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Please attend the Musical Tribute this Sunday for Drs. Julia and Nathan Hare



TuBeNu Cultural Productions
Presents
A Musical Tribute Concert

Dr. Nathan Hare & Dr. Julia Hare
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
The Historic Altenheim Ballroom
1720 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA, 94602
Free Admission – Donations Requested
Further Information contact Bryant Bolling (510) 393-4010


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Greetings Family,

The Musical Tribute and Benefit for the Hares is Sunday, May 6, 2018
from 2pm to 5pm.  Please help get the word out. Email your network. Lets work towards having a full house for this musical event. Admission free but donations accepted at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. Spread the word!
ADDRESS is 1720 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland 94606

Bryant "Mr.B" Bolling,
TuBeNu Cultural Productions

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Draft 5/2/18 Rev. James Cone



On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 11:17:33 PM PDT, Marvin X Jackmon jmarvinx@yahoo.com [blackantiwar] wrote:



Rev. James Cone represented the highest level of Black revolutionary Christian consciousness in his interpretation of the Christian myth-ritual, but most importantly he put Black Christianity in a Black African context, i.e., Jesus is Black, end of discussion.

Rev. Cone advanced the theology of liberation of the oppressed, not a celebration of the oppressor who could not in his role as master transcend Paul’s dictum that servants be obedient to your masters. Another of our Master Theologians, Howard Thurman, noted his grandmother made him read to her when he returned from school, "Read the Bible, boy, but stop when you get to Paul. I don't wanna hear nothing bout servants be obedient to your masters."


We were included  in the US Constitution as three-fifths of a man, not a full human being and in 2018 we are yet to achieve parity and equity with this socalled master. His woman has superseded us as a minority, yet even in  her minority status her labor is not equal to his in dollar amounts.

Dr. Nathan Hare says the white woman is the white man in drag since she is a stopgap measure to keep the North American African man from usurping the master’s power. Dr Frantz Fanon said the only reason for the season of the oppressed revolutionary man is to replace the master in every way, political, military, sexual, cultural, etc.

But this cunning and vile devil returned to the US Constitution,13th Amendment,that allows involuntary servitude or slavery! Oh, Happy Day, Jesus! Let's work our Constitution and lock these niggas down as commodity  on the Stock Exchange, pigs, corn, wheat, oil. Two point three million locked down, once again chattel or personal property of the State and Nation, victims crack, victims heroin, prison for mental health/drug addicts, dual diagnosed, 80/90% incarcerated, black, brown, poor white.

The happiest day in white America when the South enacted the US Constitution to re-enslave the North American African, alas, the South  has never quenched their desire to re-enslave the African. Why in the hell do you think we fought the Civil War. We would've won the Civil War if Lincoln hadn't armed 200,000 niggas. When we disarmed them 200,000 niggas, we put them back in slavery in every way we could. Terrorized they asses with KKK, cept we left them niggas alone had they own land, didn't go on they land, but them sharecroppers we terrorized them, raped and lynched they asses. Them niggas on they own land we didn't fuck with, them niggas would shoot back!

Revolution is the act of replacing the ruling class with the oppressed class, no matter the wretched condition of the oppressed Fanon called The Wretched of the Earth. As per the plethora of physical and mental traumas of the oppressed, once they engage in the activity and forward motion of revolution, at this moment they begin to heal from the addiction to white supremacy, type II, Dr. Nathan Hare, and they go about regaining family mental equilibrium.

When the oppressed man truly awakens from the sleepy time tea slumber of his comatose mental condition, i.e., menticide, he is energized for the fight of his life that is not with his natural enemy the White Man but initially he must overcome, survive and transcend the hatred, jealousy and envy of his brothers and sisters, siblings, partners, wives, brothers, friends, especially those closest to him.

Guard against being deceived. Your own mind can deceive you; in your psychosis you are convinced there are people outside your door plotting to kill you, you can hear them. In your psychosis you hear your woman coming to snatch you back to reality, but that is not she you hear knocking. No one is knocking except the devil inside your head.

So called friends who claimed they would be friends to the end, in the end betrayed you. Was not the Savior god betrayed by his brother Seth? Cain and Able? As per family love, check out Godfather Part 2, your family will whack you on a boat ride.


The slave master gave us a false narrative of the Resurrection Drama. In the Kemetic or African Egyptian version based on Nile Valley religion and  global versions of The Sixteen Crucified Saviors Before Christ, Kersey, we learn the Savior and his people were in harmony with the Nile Valley culture and civilization. The Nile or Hapi River is four thousand miles long, the longest river in the world. It's true name is Hapi not De Nile. One of my students said, "If we come out of De Nile and get to Hapi we shall then truly be Hapi."

The Resurrection Drama does not end with the Cross and Lynching Tree. We must fulfill the myth-ritual Kemetic version. Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension. John Coltrane said A Love Supreme. Love Supreme. Love Supreme.

Ascension: we transcend this wretched physical plane in the manner of Jesus, "I am in this world but not of this world." This world is an illusion for the deaf, dumb and blind that are to be exploited by the blood suckers of the poor.

As Sheikh Anta Diop taught us, African drama is tragi-comic, never tragedy as in the Northern Cradle tradition. The annual ebb and flow of the Hapi River that replenished crops was the foundation of the Osiris Resurrection Drama, repeated in the life of Jesus or Isa Ibn Mar'yam.


His Holiness Guruedy Bawa Muhaiyadin said, "Do not be fooled by the one billion one millions of the monkey mind. Man god/god man. Man is in god, god is in man We are indivisable, inseparable from the Divinity, we are One, there is no Me apart from Thee, Supreme, Divine Spirit in all things, see the sun, moon, stars, see mountains, streams, rivers, oceans. All is God/Allah, God/Allah is all, every step you take He is with you, inside you, your breath the air in lungs, the energy to think, love, contemplate the wonders of life. God/Allah, God in you/you in God.

We are the poor righteous teachers. Abdullah, servant of Allah. We all serve Allah/God. Did not Job serve God while he persecuted Job, yes, Job, the Negro/African/American who wants only a job. Was he not brought over here 400 years ago to do a job, i.e., build America!
This is not the slave master's interpretation of the Kemetic Savior God and his primordial, prototypical, archetypal  Resurrection Drama, known in the West as the drama of Sarapis, (orchestrated 332 A.D, Nicea Conference) that blue-eyed, blond haired hippy nailed to the cross in the pervasive Western white supremacy mythology. What white man was ever nailed to the cross and suffered the lynching tree, none but the Black African, especially the North American Africans and the entirety of African victims of the Euro-American slave system throughout the Americas, i.e., North, Central, South American Africans and our Caribbean brothers and sisters.

What must be acknowledged is that the Europeans enjoyed annual myth-ritual ceremonies in which it was a festive and communal occasion to burn people for joy and happiness. This was their tradition that preceded racism in any form. The burning and lynching was one of their critical rituals and had nothing to do with racism, alas, their own kind were the victims!

It just so happened that the burning and lynching of Africans in the Americas took on racial aspects in which the intersection of racism and European myth-ritual synchronized, morphing into the picnic, i.e., pick a nigga and roast him, lynch him that became a family and communal affair in which the entire community participated, promoted and enjoyed.

The Southern media has acknowledged their role in promoting the lynching of North American Africans.. As per media, it was largely on the shoulders of journalist Ida B. Wells to make plain the horrors of the Cross and Lynching Tree. Yes, the white supremacy media was as guilty as any KKK organizations in the proliferation of North American African victims of the Cross and Lynching Tree.

We give thanks to Rev. James Cone for making it plain, especially for Christians, too often duped by White Serapis Christianity, Born Again Christianity, that allows white people to be saved by grace and thus enabled to continue in their addiction to white supremacy, including a pervasive and problematic hatred, jealousy and envy of North American African Christians. For example, no black preacher is acceptable in the white Christian Born Again circuit if he has not graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary or a reasonable facsimile.

Rev. Cone originates from the Black Abolitionist tradition, shall we begin with David Walker's Appeal, 1829, the Christian slave revolts of  Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey; the Underground Railroad of Harriet Tubman, the freedom travails Sojourner Truth, et al.? Shall we conclude with such spiritual and political leaders as Noble Drew Ali, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., et al.?

Rev. Cone must be seen as an integral part of liberation theology from throughout the Americas, a critical member of the priesthood, whether Vudun, Santeria, Candomble, Catholic Church, Rasta, et al. All were about the abolition of oppression and North American African Christianity was critical, despite the reactionary priests/preachers who denounced him as they denounced Martin Luther King, Jr. as a hoodlum and thug at the National Black Baptist Convention.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is sufficient answer to white and black ministers but most especially phony white liberals. Alas, on this May Day, 2018, when I informed a student at my Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, across the street from the May Day Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza, when I told him the history of May Day as an international day to celebrate workers that the USA morphed into Labor Day, he said the Communists, Socialists are KKK too, in his ghetto Negro thinking mind. After all, the common Negro doesn't know the difference between Communism and Rheumatism!

On the other hand, during the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, many North American Africans chose Communism as an alternative to oppressive American capitalism. We note W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and later Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, and Democratic Socialists such as Dr. Cornel West and a host of revolutionary black nationalists who subscribe to Marxism, including Muslims who have the unique ability to syncretize Marxism and Islam associated with Marxism. We have no problem with the Marxism analysis of society, although we may employ an Islamic analysis. FYI, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has revealed how the West encouraged fundamental Islam to be a counterweight to Communism. But, alas, we Africans have the unique ability of syncretism in all our endeavors. This is why a Haitian can attend a Catholic mass followed by participation in a Vudun ceremony without feelings of contradiction. And a Muslim, such as myself, associated with Communists from Eldridge Cleaver to Amiri Baraka, yet maintained my mental equilibrium.

The Haitian revolution  used Vudun to become the first Africans in the Euro-American slave system to achieve national independence, although Palmeras in Brazil enjoyed freedom for a century!

Rev. James Cone advanced Christian liberation for North American Africans, Many have never heard of him, just as they have never heard of our beloved theologian and mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Most Honorable Howard Thurman. We pray North American Africans in the Christian tradition with seek out the radical, abolitionist Rev. James Cone advanced that will take us beyond the cross and lynching tree, but firstly will help us understand the myth-ritual we cannot escape no matter how sincere we are in our return to traditional African. The Christian myth-ritual, combined with our traditional faiths in ancestor gods and the ancient dance drama expressions, often expressed in Holy Ghost Church rituals of dance and talking in tongues, call and response and other aspects of ancient myth-ritual celebrations but most beautifully expressed in Yoruba celebrations, when combined with North American African Christian myth-ritual and Islamic myth-ritual as well, will empower us in the same manner Vudun enabled the Democratic Society of devotees to rise above individuality and come together in the highest level of spiritual unity that leads to the Promised Land MLK, Jr. spoke about in his final message on the Mountain Top.

Rev. James Cone, thank you for advancing Black Liberation Theology. Let us ponder your message and consider the truth therein that we may act upon your truth and sacrifice grounded in our ancestors.
--Marvin X
5/1/18

Monday, April 30, 2018

Marvin X: The Middle East Poems

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014


Gaza Concentration CAMP by Marvin X







GAZA Concentration CAMP

There are those who say we must restore peace to GAZA
Peace in the concentration camp
Peace of genocide
Peace no protest allowed
Submit to starvation
humiliation
stunted life 
hell on earth
No protest
peace before anything
Before justice
Before life even
peace

Let the people of GAZA sing silent night
Holy night
All is peaceful
All is right
Under the shadow of death
Let there be peace
No justice
Peace
With boots on our necks
Mass murder but peace
At all costs
Hamas Rockets to no avail
Iron Dome is our gift from USA
Iron Domes is saving our asses
From land, air, sea you attack
Mighty Mouse you are
Iron Dome Mouse
Look at you
Wild wild West beast
No thought of justice
Just peace
Peace be still.
--Marvin X
7/17/14

Palestine

I am not an Arab, I am not a Jew
Abraham is not my father, Palestine is not my home
But I would fight any man
Who kicked me out of my house
To dwell in a tent
I would fight
To the ends of the earth
Someone who said to me
I want your house
Because my father lived here
Two thousand years ago
I want your land
Because my father lived here
Two thousand years ago.
Jets would not stop me
From returning to my home
Uncle Toms would not stop me
Cluster bombs would not stop me
Bullets I would defy.
No man can take the house of another
And expect to live in peace
There is no peace for thieves
There is no peace for those who murder
For myths and ancient rituals
Wail at the wall
Settle in "Judea" and Samaria"
But fate awaits you
You will never sleep with peace
You will never walk without listening.
I shall cross the River Jordan
With Justice in my hand
I shall return to Jerusalem
And establish my house of peace,
Thus said the Lord.
--Marvin X (Imam Maalik El Muhajir)
Cerca 1970, Black Scholar Magazine




Marvin X and Mohja Kahf: Two Poems for the People of Syria


Oh, Mohja
how much water can run from rivers to sea
how much blood can soak the earth
the guns of tyrants know no end
a people awakened are bigger than bullets
there is no sleep in their eyes
no more stunted backs and fear of broken limbs
even men, women and children are humble with sacrifice
the old the young play their roles
with smiles they endure torture chambers
with laughs they submit to rape and mutilations
there is no victory for oppressors
whose days are numbered
as the clock ticks as the sun rises
let the people continue til victory
surely they smell it on their hands
taste it on lips
believe it in their hearts
know it in their minds
no more backwardness no fear
let there be resistance til victory.
--Marvin X/El Muhajir


Syrian poet/professor Dr. Mohja Kahf


Oh Marvin, how much blood can soak the earth?

The angels asked, “will you create a species who will shed blood

and overrun the earth with evil?” 

And it turns out “rivers of blood” is no metaphor: 


see the stones of narrow alleys in Duma

shiny with blood hissing from humans? Dark

and dazzling, it keeps pouring and pumping

from the inexhaustible soft flesh of Syrians,

and neither regime cluster bombs from the air,

nor rebel car bombs on the ground,

ask them their names before they die. 

They are mowed down like wheat harvested by machine,

and every stalk has seven ears, and every ear a hundred grains.

They bleed like irrigation canals into the earth.

Even one little girl in Idlib with a carotid artery cut

becomes a river of blood. Who knew she could be a river 

running all the way over the ocean, to you,

draining me of my heart? And God said to the angels, 

“I know what you know not.” But right now,
the angels seem right. Cut the coyness, God;

learn the names of all the Syrians.

See what your species has done.

--Mohja Kahf

let's support the reelection of black arts movement baby, Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark, NJ

Support the reelection of Black Arts Movement baby, Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark NJ  North American Africans should be proud of this young man I have known since he was a child. I watched him organize in the basement of his parent's house. I know the good inside his soul and his undying love for his people. Let the people know we support their desire for Ras Baraka to continue as Mayor!--Marvin X




Police: from Problem to Solution--The Newark, New Jersey Model

by Marvin X

 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 they want to be mayor. 
Amiri Baraka and Marvin X, friends 47 years
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.
lelt to right Dr, Molefe Asante, Mrs. Amina Baraka, Marvin X, Amiri Baraka, Jr., Kenny Gamble
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? 
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 is community consciousness, similar to the police who arrested me 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 out of existence because just as the police ain't going nowhere, Black 
Lives Matter isn't either. Stay Woke!

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

crazy house poem marvin x




waffles
die Sunday morn
pig n blanket death
lighter than feather
Mao said
North Carolina Negroes
pray with devil
Deaf dumb blind Negroes
can't smell funky devil in midst
Didn't Jesus escape through midst of enemies
smelled them
As-Salaam-Alaikum
Shalom Alaikum
passed through midst of them
til Martha Mary came
bout Lazarus
Jesus said cool 
go home Mary Martha
don't moan
got Laz covered 
raised Laz dead Negro state
last act before crucifixion
playa haters said that's it that's all
healin' sick makin' blind see ok
upliftin' ho's kissin' feet ok
woman at well ok
go sin no more woman
cast first stone ok
But you fucked up JC
you raised Lazarus 
we can't have you round here raising dead
Masonic Negroes
preachers teachers politicians judges lawyers say keep Jack in box
don't want jack out
keep Jack dead deaf dumb blind
if he join brotherhood
pay degrees
Laz all right
he pay by degrees
he rise from shallow grave
Hiram Biff myth-ritual
otherwise 
let dead stay dead
Negro leaders
Culture keepers
Democratic Party Negroes
let dead stay dead
No independent thought allowed
Dead Negro Anglo-Saxon thought ok
Kayne no
Sista girl no
put Kayne back in mental hospital
crazy nigga dumb ignut
At least Beyonce talk black culture
no more lap dancer
black panther
lift every voice sing sista
hot sauce purse sista
big H girl
billion dollar black sista
Let Kanye be Kanye
Why we all gotta be all
politics is politics 
no permanent friends enemies
only interests ideology agenda
Huey Newton say Marvin X
What's yo program?
Kanye what's yo program
Beyonce what's your program
Problem program
Solution program what

better ax somebody
cross lynching tree 
Billie Holiday 
Strange Fruit 
let dead stay dead
cell phone dead
low information vibration dead
Won't call Miss Ann
Becky with good hair
Miss Ann/Becky say
Did you mean
Did you mean

Southern trees Strange Fruit
travel Southern roads without armor of God
South armed camp
men armed women
my North Carolina woman kept piece on night stand

South hunting season holiday
Negro coon hunt

Better know piece for peace South
What Akinyele Umoja say
We Shoot Back
Robert Williams say Negroes With Guns
Southern Negroes never go Southern roads without piece fa peace
Northern Negroes too
We read Negro With Guns
north south same same
North up south
Canada say South anything below border South

No matter
Deaf dumb blind church Negroes cry
oh devil we forgive thee
Jesus cried on cross lynching tree
Father, why did you forsake me?
dead god cannot help dead Negro
Jesus couldn't help himself
bleeding nailed on cross
hippy lookin' Serapis
Oh Serapis Christos
codified Jesus 332AD
Nicea Conference
father son holy ghost
trinity not for African Christianity
rejected
Separpis no Jesus
not the one
people shouted
away with him
give us the thieves!
This was black savior
nappy hair
bronze skin
no blue eyed devil hippy Serapis
even Black Jesus
couldn't save himself
Isis had to find his vital organ dick
put him together from Lebanon tree
Horus the Avenger came
justice baby
Horus Harun
virgin birth child
I come for you Seth
Agent of Darkness Devil Seth
Sun Set
I come for you Devil
You are not truth
do not weight scales with feather of truth
Mizan Ma'at
Seth you lie on the scales of justice
how can we believe in god couldn't save himself
he can save us if we believe
say sinner's prayer
saved now
covered by the blood
saved from racism
born again
hate niggas ok now
kill niggas ok now
saved
niggas so traumatized
want no church no religion no god
communism ok
no jesus please
anything but jesus muhammad too
vudun
Yoruba Moorish Science 5%
spare me
religiosity spare me

Give me  golden calf
girls boys just wanna have fun
material girl material boy
material world
do not save us from Sodom Gomorrah
we smarter than god
we want the men angels
to hell with your daughters Lot
give us the men
and the many gods
fuck one god monotheism
imperialism in religion
let the polytheists rejoice
let us adore gods of our fathers mothers ancestors all
do not save us from polytheism
let us dance all night to ancestor gods
religiosity mythology ideology dogmatism sectarianism racism globalism atheism communism
capitalism multiculturalism
julia hare said is but another word for failed integration
True dat Julia
america segregated now more than ever
bank account segregated
edumakation
religion
11Am still most segregated hour in America
1PM Friday most segregated hour in Muslim world USA too
Sista Maryom Al Wadai say we need Nigga Islam no Super Sunni Saudi Arabian Iranian myth-ritual Islam
niggas on bottom Islam
bottom rail top Islam Christianity Communism Socialism
Democratic Party Republican Party bottom rail top
2008 Crash 19 Trillion gone
basic wealth black/ white america gone
middle class gone
home owners now renters
tent dwellers
sub prime low scam tricknology
negro removal ethnic cleansing gentrification
black homes white 
harlem white
oakland berkeley san francisco white
black lives matter sign in window
love the devil cause he give us nothing
work whole life nothing
retired gov. cheese nothing
don't have $10,000 in bank
ten dollars nothing
payday loan no payday
payday loan college students
trillion dollar dept student loans
never pay
slave for life
Gotta go to ma slave man
see you later man
can't hang
slave job fa life
contract worker
no benefit wage slave worker
Uber  youber juber


can children go to school 
no body bag children
what world is this
what kinna people are these
humans
robotic 
walk across street cell phone robot
don't see car on ass
don't care
where you at where you at
nowhere
AB said Tales of Out and Gone
I say Tales of Deaf Dumb Blind
Where is your mind and why
you cannot medicate the pain of reality
pain of your father's sins
privileges you inherited but deny
this is why opioids  confound the land of the free home of the brave
how can one walk upon killing fields yet cannot feel blood beneath their feet
don't care they walk on ancestor bones yet ancestor voices wail in the wind
the deaf dumb blind don't hear don't care
let opioids consume their madness
they wonder as they wonder
families bleed with pain
loved ones gone so young
why must parents bury children
this is not natural
but what is natural these days
in this land of the loveless
minds consumed with data data data
money data
fame data
brand data app data
tweeters twaters
Instagram moneygram
Facebook friends
3000 friends won't send a dime
damn
Bob Marley say wit ma friends don't need enemies
but every little ting gonna b all ite
every little ting gonna b all ite.

Crazy house called America.
When will you serve the least of these
liberate all captives in gulags dungeons
some in mansion dungeons
scared to leave the house
scared to get fresh air
scared to drive
might kill in road rage
wife knows her man crazy
she crazy too
think everybody want her man
do she want her man
do she want herself
blessed in mansion
cursed by self
self accusing spirit

Woe to America
blessed yet cursed
won't share the wealth
greedy pig
1% want it all
no heart no mind no soul
deaf dumb blind.
--Marvin X/El Muhajir (Arabic, the Migrant)
4/24/18