IMANI (FAITH) Esteemed Baba Marvin X,As Salaam Alakium! May this message find you and (y)our extended Family thriving in healing Spirit! A REMINDER: WE request your presence on next Saturday, 25 January, 12 Noon sharp, in downtown Oakland. Respectfully, would like for you to take a couple of minutes to Welcome our gathering to the BAMBD. And, in addition, be prepared later in the Program to briefly share your viewpoint on Reparations for African people and your work over the decades to achieve. Asante Sana. Ase'.Amen-RA Hotep!Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'atN'COBRA Life Member, Past National Co-Chair and Acting Western Region Representative(510) 423-8576UPLIFTING EVERY VOICE and ACTION...FOR REPARATIONS RIGHT NOW!Saturday, 25 January 2020, 12 Noon sharpat the beautiful Joyce Gordon Gallery406 - 14th Street in OHLONE/Oakland, California(near downtown 12th St. BART station)Invited Solutionaries from N’COBRA*, Nation of Islam, Black Panther Party Alumni, AAPRP, M alcolm X Grassroots Mvt., New Afrikan People’s Organization, African People’s Socialist Party, Equal Justice Society, Haiti Action Committee, Jericho Amnesty Mvt., Wo’se House of Amen-RA, Black Lives Matter, CRC for Self-Determination, Rep. Barbara Lee, Danny Glover... and, YOU!!!Sponsored by National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America*, FONAMI (Foundations for Our New Alkebulan/Afrikan Millennium), Africans Deserve Reparations Now!, and San Francisco Bay View
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
Off the Record The Black Mental Health Emergency and Reparations
Congratulations Judge Teri L. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal
Congratulations to Judge Teri L. Jackson, who was sworn in Tuesday to the office of Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three.
Judge Jackson was the first African American woman tapped for SF Superior Court and is now the also the first to her new post.
She was joined at the ceremony by her sister Porsha, brother-in-law Paul and their/her NBA twin sons Jarron and Jared Collins. They invited Warriors superstar Draymond Green, who was their with his fiance Hazel Renee. Also present was Judge Marty Jenkins, Da Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., Sutter Health Chief Anthony Wagner, Judge Skip Hewlett and wife attorney Cloey Hewlett, SF City Administrator Naomi Kelly, Attorney Paul Henderson and Jounalists Carloyn Tyler and Amelia Ashley-Ward, just to name a few.
Members of the Commission on Judicial Appointments who approved Governor Gavin Newsom's choice Judge Jackson presided: Chief Justice of California Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, State Attorney General
Xavier Becerra and Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks on America, 2020
As we reflect on ML King's b day, 2020, we suspect he would say, "Lord have mercy! My God, look what happened to my dream. It's a nightmare that so many people are living on the streets coast to coast in the richest nation in the world. Today as yesterday, we took a check called freedom to the bank but were told there were insufficient funds. Today America is yet the number one purveyor of violence throughout the world. She has learned nothing since Vietnam.
Why is she in Iraq and refuses to leave? Why has she been in Afghanistan twenty years with no victory in sight? Why is her military industrial complex in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and other lands at the cost of trillions? No wonder we can't cash our freedom check, now called Reparations!"
The San Francisco Black Mental Health Emergency and Reparations
"It's a wonder we all haven't gone stark raving mad!"
--James Baldwin, interview with Marvin X, NYC, 1968
As Murphy's law states, things go from bad to worse, and things have certainly gotten worse since James Baldwin told me those words a half century ago. Our mental condition has deteriorated severely from the traumatic slave syndrome effects that has persisted 400 years. America's drug war bombarded our community with toxic chemicals in the form of Crack and germs in the form of STD and HIV/AIDS with the concomitant economic loses in housing and population due to so-called urban renewal, i.e., Negro Removal, that has now morphed into gentrification and dislocation. And mass incarceration has most certainly exacerbated the problem, along with persistent mis-education and ever pervasive racial discrimination in all phases of life.
Dr. Nathan Hare told us housing is the first need of persons suffering mental illness and/or drug abuse, if they are to recover their mental equilibrium or a modicum of sanity. Dr. Frantz Fanon taught us in Wretched of the Earth that the only way the oppressed man and woman can regain their mental health is through the process of revolution. But even revolutionaries need housing. Even slaves had housing, although not much better than the tents occupied by today's homeless throughout San Francisco and the streets of America.
Today, on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, Supervisor Shamann Walton held a press conference that called for reparations from the City and County of San Francisco. He demanded reparations in the form of decent housing, living-wage employment, proper education. A speaker from the SF Board of Education noted 2020 will be the first year Black History Month will be celebration in the San Francisco Public Schools. Supervisor Walton demanded reparations for police abuse under the color of law, in short, a holistic package of reparations. Another speaker noted that reparations is restorative justice for 400 years of crimes against humanity.
The press conference was attended by a multi-cultural group of supporters from the Latinox, Asian,
and white community. They were in full support of reparations for North American Africans. With such broad unity, we think it is about time for the San Francisco North American African leadership to unite. If there are mental health issues, ageism or sexism, we say our condition is an emergency and we must come together and talk shop, as Malcolm X told us. There is no reason aside from mental health issues that keep us from solidifying on an issue that is bigger than any individual, any politician, preacher or teacher. Young Turks must reach functional unity with the elders and the elders must submit to the energy of youth by offering guidance and direction. The hour is too late to be on an ego trip. Surely we see perennial racism is unabated, flowing from the Right and often from the Left. We need only recall Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, "...I'd rather be with the KKK than phony white liberals...."
But all too often our enemy is internal rather than external, although often they may be both! We cannot continue with the slave mentality in modern dress. What did Ancestor Harriet Tubman tell us, "I could have freed more slaves if they had known they were slaves." Often we are unconscious of our behavior that is the residue of slavery. Supervisor Shamaan Walton said a leadership and community meeting on reparations will be held soon. We urge all those sincerely interested in reparations to be present, especially our beloved Rev. Amos Brown, President, SF NAACP and Paster of Third Baptist Church.
Immediately following the press conference on reparations, my editor, Amelia Ashley Ward, asked me to accompany her to Mayor London Breed's office to observe a private meeting she was having with a faith group
advocating for senior housing. Before the meeting began, we chatted with the Mayor in her private office.
Amelia introduced me to Mayor p Breed, but I told Amelia I knew the Mayor from the African American Cultural Center on Fulton Street. She was the director when my Recovery Theater performed One Day in the Life, the docudrama of my addiction to Crack. Mayor Breed reminded me she grew up in the OC housing projects, OC for Out of Control. She said none of her friends would come there to visit her because it out of control! The only friends she had were those who lived there. I told her I was quite familiar with the OC projects as I had bought Crack there many times. On one occasion I gave a dealer short money by mistake but as soon as I realized it, I rushed back to make it right because I didn't want any problem with the OC brothers. The Mayor laughed because she knew it could have been a serious problem.
Amelia and I went into the conference room with the interfaith group. Soon the Mayor entered and the meeting began with a prayer. The group had taken over the Mayor's office some time ago, demanding to meet with her, occupying her office for two hours. She refused to meet with them under duress but agreed to meet today.
After introductions, they demanded the City of San Francisco charge seniors no more than 30% if their income for rental housing. After listening to testimonials, Mayor Breed said she could not promise them what they desired. It would take time.
She told them she fully understood the problems of seniors since she was raised in the projects by her grandmother whom she had to care for when she developed Alzheimer's.
My point is that if this group was unified in their demands and the Mayor was forced to listen. As per reparations, North American Africans must come as a unified group, not divided by intergenerational conflict.
Youth are the vanguard of any people’s struggle, for only youth have the energy and fearlessness to engage the enemy or opposition, and once they grasp the program and ideology of struggle, they are invincible.
Sometimes the problem with the youth generation is the historical discontinuity Harold Cruse wrote about in Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, the gap in knowledge and discipline the old generation doesn’t pass on to the new, causing the new to reinvent the wheel, thus losing precious time making similar mistakes, especially when the old guard doesn’t intervene with direction and wisdom from previous struggle, or the old guard might want to dominate the youth with war stories of battles long ago, rather than guiding youth on strategies and tactics for the war at hand.
We suspect that if the African American leadership will get their heads together and stop ego tripping, the community may indeed secure reparations from the City and Country of San Francisco. Does our leadership suffer mental health issues, if so, we suggest they meet with Dr Nathan Hare since their maladjustment to injustice is severe and is negatively impacting our freedom struggle in this city. In the words of our beloved ancestor Dr Julia Hare, do we have black leaders or leading blacks? There is no reason for two competing Reparation projects. They should and must be merged for the greater good of our community.
Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District and Mother's for Housing
Because of the people's movement, the Oakland mothers who had occupied a vacant house on Magnolia Street have won a victory. After a violent eviction by the Alameda County goon squad that landed the mothers in Santa Rita jail, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Governor Newsome and a Land Trust has negotiated to purchase the house from the investment company after renovations. But it was the mother's radical action that made a successful resolution to their occupation because they were homeless. Their case will no doubt be a model for addressing the homeless crisis in Oakland and perhaps coast to coast. They repeatedly told the media they wanted their situation to spark a movement, which brings us to the Oakland City Council member Lynette McElhaney's move to remove Movement from the name of the Black Arts Movement Business District because it's a dog whistle for radicalism she and her stakeholder sycophants don't desire. We say if there is a lack of desire for radical movement in the BAMBD, it shall become a Negro Museum of California district.
Oakland City Council member McElhaney told someone I hate her since we had to force her to push through legislation to establish the Black Arts Movement Business District in Oakland. And she was president of the city council at the time, 2016.
Since then she has done nothing to make the district a reality except from time to time hold stakeholder meetings. On the other hand, Dr Ayodele Nzinga established the BAMBD CDC and has won several Community benefit agreements with developers, gave out $150,000 in mini grants to community persons, including Asians and North American Africans. The California Arts Council granted BAMBD CDC $200,000 for last year's and this year's Bamfest.
BAMBD CDC advocated $75,000 in the City's general fund for capacity building. Lynette had nothing to do with obtaining the funds but is trying to seize the funds for her agenda, while she's had four years to secure funds for BAMBD, including funds for signage, red black and green banners representing the African Universal Flag created by Marcus Garvey. This year is the 100th birthday of the flag that the City of San Francisco painted on all Third Street light poles in Hunters Point, Black cultural district. She now wants to remove "Movement" from the name of the BAMBD. She and other reactionary Negroes objected to the word Movement from the beginning. Oakland Post Newspaper Publisher Paul Cobb had to inform Lynette and her stakeholder sycophants, "The only reason black people are still alive is because of movement, Civil Rights Movement, Black Radical Movements, including the Black Panther Party and the Black Arts Movement." Our condition in Oakland is surely in need of movement, not less movement, if only a bowel movement! I emailed City Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney that I do not hate her. I love story tellers! There should be a statue of Chauncey Bailey, not a plaque. I write in the spirit of Chauncey Bailey and I continue his work of exposing lies and bullshit!
--MARVIN X
Off The Record
Sun Reporter Newspaper
Political Columnist
Writer Marvin X and Oakland City Councilmember Lynette McElhaney in happier times
Photo Adam Turner
San Francisco Supervisor Shamman Walton
photo Adam Turner
Sun Reporter political columnist Marvin X, Sun Reporter Editor Amelia Ashley-Ward,
former San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell
photo Adam Turner
Marvin X on Reparations
SF Supervisor Shamann Walton and Marvin X
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Off The Record: Oakland Polytricks
Writer Marvin X and Oakland City Councilmember Lynette McElhaney in happier times
Photo Adam Turner
Oakland City Councilmember McElhaney told someone I hate her since we had to force her to push through legislation to establish the Black Arts Movement Business District in Oakland. And she was president of the city council at the time, 2016.
Since then she has done nothing to make the district a reality except from time to time hold stakeholder meetings. On the other hand, Dr Ayodele Nzinga established the BAMBD CDC and has won several Community benefit agreements with developers, gave out $150,000 in mini grants to community persons, including Asians and North American Africans. The California Arts Council granted BAMBD CDC $200,000 for last year's and this year's Bamfest.
BAMBD CDC advocated $75,000
in the City's general fund for capacity building. Lynette had nothing to do with obtaining the funds but is trying to seize the funds for her agenda, while she's had four years to secure funds for BAMBD, including funds for signage, red black and green banners representing the African Universal Flag created by Marcus Garvey. This year is the 100th birthday of the flag that the City of San Francisco painted on all Third Street light poles in Hunters Point, Black cultural district. She now wants to remove "Movement" from the name of the BAMBD. She and other reactionary Negroes objected to the word Movement from the beginning. Oakland Post Newspaper Publisher Paul Cobb had to inform Lynette and her stakeholder sycophants, "The only reason black people are still alive is because of movement, Civil Rights Movement, Black Radical Movements, including the Black Panther Party and the Black Arts Movement." Our condition in Oakland is surely in need of movement, not less movement, if only a bowel movement! I emailed City Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney that I do not hate her. I love story tellers! There should be a statue of Chauncey Bailey, not a plaque. I write in the spirit of Chauncey Bailey and I continue his work of exposing lies and bullshit!
--MARVIN X
Off The Record
Sun Reporter Newspaper
Political Columnist
1/14/20
https://postnewsgroup.com/2019/08/02/councilmember-mcelhaney-announces-plan-for-plaque-tribute-to-chauncey-bailey/
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience!
Marvin X has done extraordinary mind and soul work in bringing our attention to the importance of spirituality,
as opposed to religion, in our daily living. Someone—maybe Kierkegaard or maybe it was George Fox who—
said that there was no such thing as "Christianity." There can only be Christians. It is not institutions but rather
individuals who make the meaningful differences in our world. It is not Islam but Muslims. Not Buddhism but
Buddhists. Marvin X has made a courageous difference. In this book he shares the wondrous vision of his
spiritual explorations. His eloquent language and rhetoric are varied—sophisticated but also earthy, sometimes
both at once. His moods are both reverent and irreverent: at times he consoles, other times cajoles with biting
mockery. At times amusing but always deadly serious.
as opposed to religion, in our daily living. Someone—maybe Kierkegaard or maybe it was George Fox who—
said that there was no such thing as "Christianity." There can only be Christians. It is not institutions but rather
individuals who make the meaningful differences in our world. It is not Islam but Muslims. Not Buddhism but
Buddhists. Marvin X has made a courageous difference. In this book he shares the wondrous vision of his
spiritual explorations. His eloquent language and rhetoric are varied—sophisticated but also earthy, sometimes
both at once. His moods are both reverent and irreverent: at times he consoles, other times cajoles with biting
mockery. At times amusing but always deadly serious.
Highly informed, he speaks to many societal levels and to both genders—to the intellectual as well as to the
man/woman on the street or the unfortunate in prison—to the mind as well as the heart. His topics range from
global politics and economics to those between men and women in their household. Common sense dominates
his thought. He shuns political correctness for the truth of life. He is a Master Teacher in many fields of thought—
religion and psychology, sociology and anthropology, history and politics, literature and the humanities. He is a
needed Counselor, for he knows himself, on the deepest of personal levels and he reveals that self to us, that
we might be his beneficiaries.
man/woman on the street or the unfortunate in prison—to the mind as well as the heart. His topics range from
global politics and economics to those between men and women in their household. Common sense dominates
his thought. He shuns political correctness for the truth of life. He is a Master Teacher in many fields of thought—
religion and psychology, sociology and anthropology, history and politics, literature and the humanities. He is a
needed Counselor, for he knows himself, on the deepest of personal levels and he reveals that self to us, that
we might be his beneficiaries.
All of which are represented in his Radical Spirituality—a balm for those who anguish in these troubling times
of disinformation. As a shaman himself, he calls too for a Radical Mythology to override the traditional
mythologies of racial supremacy that foster war and injustice. It's a dangerous book, for it reveals the inner
workings of capitalist and imperialist governments around the world. It's a book that stands with and on
behalf of the poor, the dispossessed, the despised, and downtrodden. Marvin X has found a way out of our
spiritual morass, our material quagmire. We are blessed to still have him among us. If you want to reshape
(clean up, raise) your consciousness, this is a book to savor, to read again, and again—to pass onto a friend or
lover.
of disinformation. As a shaman himself, he calls too for a Radical Mythology to override the traditional
mythologies of racial supremacy that foster war and injustice. It's a dangerous book, for it reveals the inner
workings of capitalist and imperialist governments around the world. It's a book that stands with and on
behalf of the poor, the dispossessed, the despised, and downtrodden. Marvin X has found a way out of our
spiritual morass, our material quagmire. We are blessed to still have him among us. If you want to reshape
(clean up, raise) your consciousness, this is a book to savor, to read again, and again—to pass onto a friend or
lover.
—Rudolph Lewis, Editor, ChickenBones: A Journal
We honor and praise our beloved publisher who has joined the ancestors, Itibari Zulu! Praise be to Itibari always as cool as Cool Hand Luke!
Amiri Baraka, (RIP), Marvin X's best friend and revolutionary comrade.
"Amiri was a brother like no other. Better Ax somebody (as they say in the Dirty South!)." Marvin X say, "Amiri help a nigga, just don't upstage him!"
Marvin X in St. Louis, MO at Akhbar Muhammad's Book Fair
Hurriyah Asar and Marvin X, revolutionary comrades in the Black Arts Movement. Marvin has written several books while visiting Hurriyah on her island property,Beaufort, South Carolina. While in the area, he usually pays a visit to the king at the Yoruba African Village, Sheldon, SC.
Two titles: Love and War, poems, and How to Recover
from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a recovery manual
based on the 12 Step model. He completed How to Recover
from the Addiction to White Supremacy in South Carolina.
FYI, in late January, Marvin X will read his poetry at the Duke University conference on Black Islam in the Atlantic. Dr Mohja Khaf considers him the Father of the genre known as Muslim American literature. Bob Holman says he is America's Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz, three of the greatest names in Persian literature. Ishmael Reed says he is Plato teaching on the streets on Oakland. Harvard University Professor Dr. Cornel Wests says Marvin X is the African Socrates teaching in the hood. West says further, "Marvin X is a combination of Theolonious Monk and Marianne Williamson."
But, ultimately, we know Marvin X is Marvin X, like no other god in human form who walked among us. Marvin says, "Elijah and Guru Bawa taught we are in God and God is in us, nada mas! Basta ya!" Arabia, "Fahim? La fahim? Fahim! Anna Allah, Allah anna! La fahim?"
Ain't no real nigga orthodox nothing. Nigga by definition is beyond the pale, radical, extremist, original, aboriginal. An orthodox nigga ain't no real nigga. He serving somebody else's idea of somebody else's world, Sun Ra would say. What's your idea of your world, Nigga? Everybody got they own world but a nigga. He wanna be in somebody else's world, any world except his own black nigga world, wanna be African, African wanna be nigga! He wanna be Arab, Arab wanna be him, talk like him, dress like him, fuck like him. Nigga please, just be a nigga nigga and the world will follow you like they been doing the last fifty trillion years, Nigga!
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Off the Record: Alert, Breaking News
photo Adam Turner
A little blackbird has just told us NAACP President Rev Amos Brown and our beloved brother Danny Glover appeared at SF City Hall today and got Supervisor Hillary Ronan to support a bill for reparations.
photo Ken Johnson
We find this interesting since Supervisor Ronan advocated against London Breed becoming Mayor. And did not NAACP President Rev Amos Brown charge the "progressive Supervisors", including Ronan, with racism? Did she change her stripes over night? Or is Rev Amos Brown among Mayor Breed's loyal opposition?
As we know, politics has no permanent friends, only permanent interests. We would think Brown would approach Mayor London Breed to advocate for reparations since she is a descendent of Africans who suffered in the American slave system.
We support reparations in the form of land and sovereignty, with funds to establish an independent nation in America or elsewhere. No, we justly deserve part of American, the land we suffered since 1619 as indentured servitude and/or chattel slavery and today enjoy wage slavery. After 400 years in the American slave system that allowed centuries of capital accumulation, look at our wretched condition on the streets of San Francisco and other cities throughout America. Has America any desire to share her great wealth with the us impoverished descendents of Africans captured in the American slave system.
Not only do we demand land, economic resources for the next 50 to 100 years, but as part of reparations, we demand the general amnesty of all our brothers and sisters in American jails and prisons, 80% of whom were drug addicted and mentally ill at the time of their arrests for mostly economic crimes and tried without proper legal representation.
Marvin X
Sun Reporter Newspaper
Political Columnist
1/9/20
Sun Reporter Newspaper
Political Columnist
1/9/20
Off the Record #1 SF Mayor London Breed, Black Magic Woman
Off the Record #1 Mayor London Breed, Black Magic Woman
Santana
photo Adam Turner
Off the Record #1
Mayor London Breed
Mayor London Breed
Black Magic Woman
by
Marvin X
Sun Reporter Political Columnist
Marvin X
Photo Adam Turner
Photo Adam Turner
When the Mayor ended her address we departed the beautiful SF City Hall, renovated during the administration of the living legend, the Honorable Willie Brown. As we made our exit from the press section, it was announced Santana was about to play. We just knew he would play his classic Black Magic Woman in honor of our Voodoo Queen, Mayor London Breed! LoL We were informed he did not play Black Magic Woman and whatever he played was drowned out in the city hall sound trap! For the Mayor's loyal opposition, we share words from Santana's classic:
I've got a Black magic woman
Got me so blind I cannot see
Don't turn your back on me, baby
Stop messing about with your tricks
You just might pick up my magic sticks....
Wednesday, January 8
This morning SF Mayor London Breed was inaugurated for her first four year term. Initially she served out
the term of Mayor Ed Lee who suffered a heart attack. Affordable housing dominated her acceptance address,
although she began with herstory as a descendent of Africans captured in the American slave system. Eventually
her family arrived in San Francisco seeking a better life. Growing up in the projects did not allow her to imagine
one day she would be Mayor of a most beautiful city in the world.
the term of Mayor Ed Lee who suffered a heart attack. Affordable housing dominated her acceptance address,
although she began with herstory as a descendent of Africans captured in the American slave system. Eventually
her family arrived in San Francisco seeking a better life. Growing up in the projects did not allow her to imagine
one day she would be Mayor of a most beautiful city in the world.
MC Kayla Smith
photo Adam Turner
She did not imagine her goddaughter, Kayla Smith, would be mistress of ceremony at her inauguration,
or that a black woman, Superior Court Judge Teri L. Jackson, would administer the oath of office.
Superior Court Judge Teri L. Jackson and Mayor Breed
photo Adam Turner
After noting historic niceties, she delved into the ugliness of the hour: lack of affordable housing, not
only for the homeless but teachers, police, techies and other workers. Affordable housing shall be the priority
of her administration, along with making the streets safe and clean for everyone. This will involve conservatorship
for the severely mentally ill. Homeless shelter beds are being made available to get people off the streets. Car parks
have been set up for persons forced to live in their cars. But again, she noted that affordable housing is the critical issue.
She said the City is planning 50,000 homes in the next decade. Whatever policies that have prevented the development of
affordable housing must be altered. "Homelessness isn't just a problem, it's a symptom: the symptom of unaffordable
housing, of income inequality, of institutional racism, of addiction, untreated illness; and decades of disinvestment.
These are the problems. And if we're going to fight homelessness, we've got to fight them all.... ...Our housing problems
were entirely predictable. They are the result of decades of almost intentional under-building, and the decision decades
ago to down-zone almost three-quarters of the city and ban apartments."
Although the Mayor's agenda is an honest attempt to address the City's critical issues, she faces serious opposition
from the board of supervisors that some black community leaders call racist, partly because the mostly white board
proposed policies without consulting the community. SF NAACP President Rev Amos Brown is one critic.
In turn, the so called progressive supervisors charge the Mayor's affordable housing program as top down since she
wants to limit community input during the planning process. The Mayor simply wants to expedite the process because
the problem is a full blown emergency. Her loyal opposition say she has sided with developers but Mayor Breed won
70.7% of the vote so she clearly has the consent of the governed, plus she controls the budget and city departments.
Still she will need to organize more black community support, perhaps, to convince the loyal opposition to vote in her
favor on issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, drug abuse and mental illness that impact the North American
African community. Left wing racism is still racism. Our community must support the Mayor with a visible presence at
Board of Supervisor meetings, planning committee sessions and other meetings that impact our lives. We are too often
absent. We can Lift Every Voice and Sing or sing Silent Night. But we see there are forces on the Board of Supervisors
who care not whether we remain in this city. Perhaps Mayor Breed should do what the late poet Amiri Baraka did for the
Newark, NJ city council. He purchased multiple copies of my manual How to Recover from the Addiction to White
Supremacy, a 13-step recovery program based on the AA model, and passed copies out to the city council members,
including Newark's Mayor at the time, Cory Booker.
We hope the Mayor will ultimately understand housing is a human right, therefore the financialization of housing must
end. Everyone has a right to be housed. It should not be an economic proposition but a matter of national social security.
When the Mayor ended her address we departed the beautiful SF City Hall, renovated during the administration of the
living legend, the Honorable Willie Brown. As we made our exit from the press section, it was announced Santana was
about to play. We just knew he would play his classic Black Magic Woman in honor of our Voodoo Queen,
Mayor London Breed! LoL We were informed he did not play Black Magic Woman and whatever he played
was drowned out in the city hall sound trap! Final word to SF Board of Supervisors: don't mess with that Black Magic Woman!
January 6, 2020
Monday Night Interfaith Prayer Service for Mayor Breed
On the eve of the inauguration of SF Mayor London Breed, Third Baptist Church, officiated by Rev Amos Brown,
hosted an interfaith prayer service Monday evening, January 6, 2020. Sun Reporter Newspaper Publisher Ameila
Ashley Ward suggested I attend in my new role as political columnist. Amelia wanted me to get familiar with
politics in the City of St. Francis. Amelia introduced me to Sheryl Evans Davis, the sister who heads the Human
Rights Commission, the brother who is State representative of the NAACP; PUC Chief Harlen Kelly and his wife
Neomi. Amelia didn't know my baby brother Tommy and Harlen grew up together in Fresno and are best friends.
Nor did she know my niece Sheena Johnson is a Specialist in Harlen's department.
hosted an interfaith prayer service Monday evening, January 6, 2020. Sun Reporter Newspaper Publisher Ameila
Ashley Ward suggested I attend in my new role as political columnist. Amelia wanted me to get familiar with
politics in the City of St. Francis. Amelia introduced me to Sheryl Evans Davis, the sister who heads the Human
Rights Commission, the brother who is State representative of the NAACP; PUC Chief Harlen Kelly and his wife
Neomi. Amelia didn't know my baby brother Tommy and Harlen grew up together in Fresno and are best friends.
Nor did she know my niece Sheena Johnson is a Specialist in Harlen's department.
Rev Amos Brown opened the service and brought on the featured speaker, the dynamic spirit filled Dr Frederick
D Haynes,III, of Dallas, Texas. On a previous occasion, after hearing Dr. Haynes preach, I told Amelia, "If I hear him
preach one more time, he might make me a Christian!"
D Haynes,III, of Dallas, Texas. On a previous occasion, after hearing Dr. Haynes preach, I told Amelia, "If I hear him
preach one more time, he might make me a Christian!"
TonightI was again enraptured by his sermonette for Mayor London Breed, mixing the rap lyrics of Nippsy Hustle
and the Book of Isaiah. He described Mayor London Breed as one who descended from the slave ships but refused
to allow the waves to consume her. All she need do is stay under the guidance of her Spiritual GPS. He called forth
Mayor London Breed who said repeatedly she could not believe she was indeed the Mayor of San Francisco, one
of most beautiful cities in the world. She acknowledged the awesome task before her to uplift the downtrodden of
her city. She noted that on her frequent visits to the Tenderloin ghetto, she runs into people she grew up with in the
projects of the Fillmore District.
and the Book of Isaiah. He described Mayor London Breed as one who descended from the slave ships but refused
to allow the waves to consume her. All she need do is stay under the guidance of her Spiritual GPS. He called forth
Mayor London Breed who said repeatedly she could not believe she was indeed the Mayor of San Francisco, one
of most beautiful cities in the world. She acknowledged the awesome task before her to uplift the downtrodden of
her city. She noted that on her frequent visits to the Tenderloin ghetto, she runs into people she grew up with in the
projects of the Fillmore District.
She knows it is her job to help the less fortunate, to be a role model for all the girls in the hood who think they
are doomed to a life of nothingness and dread. She knows her opposition is substantial: only one of the eleven
Supervisors was present this night. She called upon those present for support and prayers, especially the
interfaith community. She thanked them for assisting with the homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted.
are doomed to a life of nothingness and dread. She knows her opposition is substantial: only one of the eleven
Supervisors was present this night. She called upon those present for support and prayers, especially the
interfaith community. She thanked them for assisting with the homeless, mentally ill and drug addicted.
--Marvin X
1/8/20
Mayor London Breed delivering inauguration address
photo Adam Turner
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