Friday, August 2, 2019
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Poem for Nikki Giovanni
Beautiful black women
Intelligent
Spiritual
Sexual
Bold
Aggressive
Dirty south women especially
Big H women
Picked me up at my daughter's house
Told my daughter
"I'm taking your dad out
I'll bring him back in the morning!"
Ain't ask me shit
Bold
Take care of a nigga
Southern style
Like Carolyn
Winston Salem NC
I'm drunk
With August Wilson Amiri Baraka
Whispered in her ear
"Can I go home with you?"
"Come on!"
Stayed seven months
Wrote autobiography
Thanks Carolyn
Appreciate you
Cali girls no match
Love Call girls too
Gave me beautiful children
Never raised my voice never
Never whipped them
Mother's discipline
Despite no good father me
Abusive crazy poet
Lost in imagination
Traveling Space Ways
Sun Ra style
Beyond time
Love you
Beautiful black women
Hate you
For spoiling me rotten
Mother in law said
"Who dat nigga
Think he is
King Tut?"
Love you
Beautiful black women!
--MARVIN X
Can a black man hold a stop sign
Can a black man hold a stop sign in Oakland
A stop sign
Mexicans can
Women
White men
Can a black man hold a stop sign
stop gentrification
Speed it up
Whatever
Stop
Black lives Matter stop
Must he be PhD
to hold stop sign
Remember Post office
Only job for PhD Negro
Can a black man hold stop sign
For developments
He can't afford to live in
Wave sign up and down
Stop
He won't show up on time
After pay day?
Pants on behind
Holding stop sign?
---Marvin X
Marvin X on the rights/rites of women
If truth be told, and it must, many religious based myth-rituals must be cast into the dustbin of history. Aspects of patriarchal manhood and womanhood rites of passage are archaic and dehumanizing and female genital mutilation is chief among them. Why should women be deprived the pleasure of their clitoris? Only a man would originate such a myth-ritual. It is past time for men to stay out of the affairs of women. It is her body, not man's. What right do men have determining what women do with their bodies, whether it is deprivation of sexual pleasure or abortion? I'm against abortion, but it is none of my business! If you are against abortion, don't put your seed into a woman who is pro-abortion!
--MARVIN X
--MARVIN X
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Parable of the man who went to Ignutville
There was a man who traveled to Stupidville on his way to Ignutville. In Stupidville he observed people doing the most stupid shit imaginable. They talked stupid shit, did stupid shit, lived stupid lives, went to the malls to buy stupid shit, came home and made stupid love in the dark without saying a stupid word to each other. Why say shit to a stupid motherfucker?
The man departed Stupidville and traveled on to Ignutville. After observing the people in Ignutville, he went into shock and was taken to the hospital. After a few days he was released and continued his observation of the citizens of ignutville.
They didn't know the time of day, the year. Didn't know they were slaves and/or descendents of slaves. After all they drove bigger cars than the slave master. While the slave master drove Fords and Toyotas, the slaves drove Escalades and Masaraties, yes, even while they lived in the projects.
If the master knew nothing else, he knew he was white, but the slave wasn't sure if he was black African or white European in black face. He loved the white Jesus, worshipped the white woman standard of beauty. His ignut woman loved wearing a blond wig and in the deep structure of her mind, she wanted her man to be a white man. She would be satisfied if he would become a white man dipped in chocolate. She was so ignut she called 911 so the white man, her real man, would rescue her from any abuse her black man inflicted on her, whether verbal, emotional, spiritual and/or physical.
The white man was her true husband, boyfriend, lover, protector. Such was the level of ignorance in Ignutville.
Parents were so ignut in Ignutville, they sent their children to public schools where the enemy could teach their children the proper white supremacy mis-education. They sent their children to white colleges and universities, then were shocked when their children came home hating them and everything they were about even though the ignut children didn't even know what their parents were about.
The parents didn't understand the children had been taught they were nothing ass black nigga students who were so ignut they couldn't think logically or write coherently. Some of the students suffered mental breakdowns. When the students came home, parents knew their children were not the same. They suspected their children were on drugs.
The ignut parents never imagined their children were in full blown addiction to white supremacy.
The man fled Ignutville trying to figure out how to get to Saneville. He called upon his GPS device to guide him to Saneville.
--Marvin X
7-28-29
Monday, July 29, 2019
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Marvin X Speaks, autographs books at Marin City Juneteenth
Marvin X speaks and autographs Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter at
Marin City Juneteenth, Saturday, June 29, 2019
Marvin X speaks, Third Baptist Church, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner
photo Adam Turner
Saturday, June 29, 2019- 10am-6:30pm
A Special Place
The
Marin City Festival is special. Set in a natural grove of trees,
intimate yet dynamic. A perfect place to get out of the race. A time
to relax with friends. Bring a lounge chair and blanket. Support local
merchants. Celebrate our theme:
ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS: INTERNATIONAL
Our Food Vendors serve up a diverse selection of delicious meals, beverages and desserts.
Delicious Food...Art...Fashion & More
Jewelry,
fashion, crafts, music, local & celebrity talent, Childcare with
games, jumping tent and more. We encourage attendees to support our
local businesses by spending, a minimum of $25 on food and $100 for
goods.
Inspirational Entertainment
Talented
performers share Spoken Word and historical tributes. An "Open
Mic"provides space for locals to shine, along with our Juneteenth Vendor
"commercials" which will compel you to purchase their goods &
services over corporate competitors.
Marin City Juneteenth Community Festival
A Project of the Marin City Community Services District
Monday, June 24, 2019
Review by Marvin X: Last Black Man in San Francisco
Danny Glover, grandfather
The Nigga Greek Chorus
Jimmy Fails as Jimmy and co-writer
Jimmy Fails and Johnathan Majors as Jimmy and Mont
Tichina Arnold as Aunti
Jonathan Majors and Jimmie Fails are the main characters, Mont and Jimmy respectively. Like many North American Africans disconnected from their history, we often construct mythology to placate our psychological trauma that transcends amnesia which assumes we forgot, but Dr. Nathan Hare says we simply never knew, as any victim of physical trauma is unable to recall what happened to them. Jimmy comes to believes, or rather constructs the myth that his grandfather built the house but eventually deed history reveals it was constructed a hundred years before, as a tour guide attempted to tell his group.
During probate by the white owners, Mont and Jimmy occupy the house but are forced to move when a "friendly" real estate agent puts it up for sale. Before they depart, Mont produces a play in the house that reveals the myth Jimmy has been living by at which point Jimmy declares he must be the last black man in San Francisco because all his relatives are living precariously or have departed.
This film about brotherly and family love has value as North American Africans are being gentrified coast to coast. But as Tina Turner said, "What's love got to do with it?"
We don't expect film writers to be sociologists and city planners, so although we appreciate the film, it presents the problem but no solution, and perhaps there is none when the median cost of a home in San Francisco is 1.4 million dollars. Will any amount of creative financing solve problem of affordability? Most certainly, a livable wage won't!
And most especially, a communal problem will not be solved with an individual solution. We know films must be focused, and although we can deduct from the specific to the general, we need to see that the severity of the problem is communal.
We recently celebrated the memorial of Wade "Speedy" Woods, and I titled my story on him as "The Last Fillmore Revolutionary Negro". Ironically, as per this film, Speedy headed WAPAC, the Fillmore or Western Addition
Project Area Committee, a redevelopment agency that tried to save, and did save, many of the Victorians like the one depicted in Last Black Man in San Francisco. If I were to write a film on Speedy, it would reveal his efforts to save community as opposed to a narrative of him as an individual. He did have a team! And WAPAC save some elements of the Fillmore, but we must note that years later as the Fillmore, aka, Harlem of the West, suffered gentrification, former Mayor Joe Alioto publically apologized for "destroying the cultural and economic vitality of the Fillmore."
Left to write, SFSU BSU co-founders Mar'yam, Danny Glover and Marvin X.
Danny portrayed Jimmy's grandfather in Last Black Man in SF.
As was noted in the Rolling Stone review, Last Black Man floated between fantasy and documentary, or mythology and reality, and this is okay, except our condition is so critical, do we have time for fantasy? We are being moved on and thus we are on the move. The film revealed our desperate straits, from family members to the hopeless Greek chorus on the corner in the hills of Hunters Point, to the sick white people in downtown San Francisco who want nudity as a normality. They have even opened a cafe where they can enjoy rats as they eat and drink!
SF Mayor London Breed at SF Juneteenth in the Fillmore
photo Marvin X
As we came off the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, we noted the skyscrapers under construction, then wondered how city planners can approve these constructions without giving equity to the displaced with affordable housing and living wages? Nevertheless, our beloved Mayor London Breed spoke at the Fillmore Juneteenth and assured the crowd of North American African we would not suffer the fate of the Last Black Man in San Francisco! We shall survive, the Mayor assured the crowd!
--Marvin X
6/23/19
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