Classic Malcolm X interview at UC Berkeley

When I'll Wave the Flag

When I'll Wave The Flag

I'll wave the flag
When the trillions in reparations are paid to the
African American Nation
For 400 years of being terrorized in America
When the bill of the Middle Passage is paid
When the bill from the cotton fields is paid

I'll wave the flag
When the damages due the descendents of mass murder
is paid
Mass kidnapping
Mass rape

I'll wave the flag
When the police stop terrorizing us for breathing
while black
Walking while black
Loving while black

I'll wave the flag
When the 2 million men and women in prison are
released
for petty crimes
And those guilty of stealing elections take their
place
in the cells

I'll wave the flag
When those guilty of stealing labor, stealing
energy,
stealing souls of the poor are jailed


I'll wave the flag
When those guilty of the miseducation of our
children are
jailed for crimes against humanity

I'll wave the flag
When those who terrorize the earth, pollute the
earth,
poison the food, the water, the air
Inject animals with hormones
Genetically alter vegetables and fruits
When these people are taken before the world court
for
terrorizing the world
I'll wave the flag

Until then
Kiss my motherfuckin' ass.

2001 Marvin X.

blame it on marvin x

BLAME IT ON MARVIN X!!!

Have you seen it?

When is the last time you’ve walked downtown

Can’t believe what they’ve done

But, i know this, for sure

Gwon. Go ahead.

Hope the streets don’t call me out on this

But, i BLAME Marvin X!

He started it!

He and Immamu

The great Baraka

Elombe, Kwame, Maya, Abubadika, Ed Bullins, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure’

Bobby, Huey, Emory, Karenga, COBRA in Chi-town, Ishmael...

Yebo! They should all be held responsible!

Damn right, i blame Marvin X and ‘nem

For being the main instigators that has brought the world

More than 50 years

Five loooong decades-plus

Of terrifying White terrorists, including Reagan

While shaking up liberals

The nerve of him, the never of them

Waking up “Negroes”

When they’re trying to keep sleeping

Don’t know bout ya

But, i still blame Marvin X and ‘nem

Not just these miserable social conditions

Of vicious European and American global imperialist monopoly capitalist white terrorism

For causing all this

Particular unruly and unauthorized behavior

Firing up folks

Coast to coast

From the Atlantic to the Gulf to the Great Lakes to the Pacific and beyond

To the continent and around our diaspora

Especially among these brave youngsters

Who have no idea

What they’re up against

Or, how to be scared!

Ya can say what ya want

But, i’m calling him out

The truth is Marvin X and ‘nem are to blame.

He has to be completely out of his mind

For outrageously envisioning a safe, secure, valued CommUNITY of

Self-Determined African people with homes, banks, stores, theaters, cafes, galleries, vendors

And, no poo-poo. Ooops, typo. i meant no po-po

Calling it the “Black Arts Movement taking care of Our Business District”

In the Spirit of our Kemetic-like destroyed Greenwood-Archer-Pine “GAP” area in Tulsa, Never

In the center of Indigenous OHLONE-land

Renamed “oakland” by the European and American killer and raper

Raiders and 49’er gold diggers

Who else ya gonna blame, but Marvin X and ‘nem?

For confronting the City officials

To first recognize this Black Arts Movement District

Then demanding they put up some street signs and posters

To loudly declaring our sacred Red, Black and Green colors of Liberation!

So, it is, indeed, Marvin X and ‘nem

Who WE have to blame

Cause he has now taken the damn thang

To an even higher level

Without any prior notification

Or, “official” Invitation

Have you seen this outburst?

Witnessed all this dangerous art?

On every block! Every street! Even in some alleys.

And, to my amazement…

Not one broken window.

Go ahead

Let’s blame Marvin X and ‘nem

There they go again inspiring so many creative Spirits

And, Bold, Brave Amazing Souls

Who seem to have been set Free

And, given this precious Sacred Space

While confronting the deadly military armor, tear gas, hidden cameras, threats of arrests and jailings

And, drive-by shootings and murder

From Euro-American “white” military-trained terrorists

Along with this deadly virus from who knows where (at the moment)

i’m for blaming Marvin X and ‘nem

For issuing this Call to Create

With nothing to fight with

But their weapons of Warriors’ vigor

Unfiltered imagination and unabashed creativity

Nothing but pray cans, paint brushes, magic markers, sharpies

Plywood, concrete and asphalt

Or, the walls of the J.P. Morgan Chase bank robbers and their ilk

These newer versions of the Splash Sis-Stars and Brothers

With profound messaging

Representing the real World Champions GIANTS WE all be

Yebo. This dude, Baba Marvin X

Always stirring Up Trouble!

Among the Blacks! The Browns! The Yellows! The Reds!

Lighting matches with words

That have sparked the creation of these new and old Black and Beautiful images

Of Truth and Black Genius!

Fully expressing our global Black experience, echoing Baba ImHotep Byrd!

Shouting and Exercising Our Mighty and Unstoppable Black Power!

And, futuristic Black Life!

Yebo, ya damn right it’s his fault

So, please join and help me

In putting the blame right where it belongs

And, while WE are at it

Sharing our utmost Gratitude to...

Baba Marvin X!

And, his many Black Artist

And, especially MOVEMENT-building co-horts

Past, present and after he, and WE

Are Long Gone!

Ase`. Ase`. Ase’-O!

by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at

June 2020

comment by marvin x

ache', im humbled by yr praise poem. why u put me on front street lol i got enough haters wt daggers. one told me the other day to watch my step.

peace n love jahahara

mx

The Negro as Sisyphus

We appear to be victims of the Sisyphusian myth/ritual, up and down the mountain for eternity. When shall we break the cycle of nothingness and dread? When shall we reach the mountain top never to descend again?

Just know as Mao said, the reactionaries will never put down their butcher knives, they will never turn into buddha heads!

--MARVIN X

I AM A BLACK MAN! Dr. Nathan Hare

"I AM A BLACK MAN"

by Dr. Nathan Hare

Dr. Nathan Hare at Stanford University

The evidence of anthropology now suggests that I, the black man, am the original man, the first man to walk this vast, imponderable earth. I, the black man, am an African, the exotic quintessence of a universal blackness. I have lost by force my land, my language, in a sense my life -- I will seize it back, so help me. Toward that end, if necessary, I will crush the corners of the earth, and this world will surely tremble, until I, the black man, the first and original man, can arm in arm with my woman, erect among the peoples of the earth a new society, humane to its cultural core; out of which at long last will emerge, as night moves into day, the first truly human being the world has ever known. -- Nathan Hare

Draft Black Bird Press News and Review Black August 2020

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960) (Full Album)

Two daughters of Marvin X, Nefertiti and Attorney Amira Jackmon with Cornel West at the Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness Concert, San Francisco State University, 2001

Blaxit: America, Love her or leave her?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=282860932826898

Above is the link to the Blaxit forum from Accra, Ghana

BLAXIT: SHOULD WE STAY IN THE USA OR GO BACK TO AFRICA? Since the ending of slavery in the United States, there has been an ongoing debate about whether Black Americans (the descendants of Africans bought and stolen from the shores of Africa) should stay on the land they built through hundreds of years of free labor or return to Africa, their ancestral homeland. Over the past 150 years, there have been initiatives to have Black Americans repatriate to Africa but the majority of the population has stayed in the country.  "Go Back to Africa" has been both the rallying cry of pan-Africanists, most notably Honorable Marcus Garvey as well as the taunting chant of racists during verbal and physical acts of hostility and abuse towards Black people. Some believe that we have rights to the land that the blood, sweat, tears, and lives were sacrificed to build and we should stay and fight for it despite rampant social injustice, inequalities, and continuous acts of racial terrorism.  There are others who are adamant that our rightful place is on the African continent where we originated even though hundreds of years have removed our bonds and connections with the people and culture. The idea of a modern migration Back to Africa to escape the injustice and terrorism has been termed Blaxit or The Black Exit. There are harsh realities of both options. With the new wave protests, injustice, and health disparities brought to light during the Covid-19 pandemic and the deaths of Back people at the hands of police and racists, more Black Americans are exploring their options. Join our esteemed panel of speakers (including two who have migrated to Ghana), who will engage on the topic and explore the challenges and realities from the legal, social, financial, and cultural perspectives. Live Broadcast  on Facebook and Youtube  Saturday, July 4th, 2020 1pm EST 10am PST 5pm GMT+1 Free to Register Now MEET THE SPEAKERS Erinn Ransom-Ofori - DIASPORA AFFAIRS CONSULTANT Erinn Ransom-Ofori is a professor of Africana Studies, a Diaspora Repatriation Advisor, a Mindset Transformation Coach, and the founder of the consulting firm, Infinite Potential Africa Ltd. Erinn has a BA in African & African American Studies from UCLA, a Master’s degree in Africana Studies from Cornell University and was conducting her PhD in African Diaspora Studies when she relocated to  Ghana where she currently lives with her family since 2007. MARVIN X - POET/PLAYWRIGHT/ACTIVIST Marvin X is an accomplished poet, playwright and essayist of the BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT (BAM) and was a co-founder of The Black House and The Black Arts/West Theatre in San Francisco. For the past 50 years, Marvin X has continued to work as an activist, lecturer, teacher and producer while releasing numerous books of poetry and essays. He has received writing fellowships and grants from Columbia University, National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Andre L. Smith, JD - LAW PROFESSOR/AUTHOR Andre L. Smith is a professor of law, the executive director of the Economic Justice Law Review, a published author, and the founder of the Afrolantican Legal Academy.   Andre holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Maryland-College Park, a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law, and an LL.M in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Muhammida El Muhajir - MARKETING CONSULTANT/FILMMAKER Muhammida El Muhajir is a global brand/digital marketing and media consultant, entrepreneur and filmmaker with extensive international travel/study/work experience throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, and Africa. She pursued a Master's degree in International Relations at The University of Ghana and received a B.S. in Microbiology from Howard University. She currently serves as the Director of Strategy at WaxPrint Media based in Accra, Ghana. Free to Register Now View this email in your browser

WHITE SUPREMACY-2 BY MARVIN X

BLAXIT Virtual Community forum on leaving or staying in America

Moderator Muhammida El Muhajir

Black Arts Movement Co-founder Poet/activist Marvin X will participate

Cornel West Moves Anderson Cooper To Tears

Milford Graves Documentary Part 2

Milford Graves Documentary

BAM revolutionary drummer Milford Graves Full Mantis

Now Available from Black Bird Press: How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy

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Marvin X/Dr. M

photo Gene Hazzard

"Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."

--Ishmael Reed, Lecturer Emeritus, UC Berkeley

"Marvin X is the African Socrates teaching in the hood."

--Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University

"Marvin X has always been in the forefront of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is one of the founders and innovators of the revolutionary school of African writing."

--Ancestor Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Arts Movement Co-founder

Black Bird Press has just reprinted Marvin X's classic How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy: A Pan African 12-Step Model for a Mental Health Peer Group, foreword by Dr. Nathan Hare. The police lynching of George Floyd has rocked the consciousness of human beings around the world, but the problem has existed for centuries, from the slave catchers to the police of today. And North American Africans suffer internal violence as well. It is this latter issue that concerns this manual for a mental health peer group, based on the AA 12-Step model, revised for addiction to white supremacy Type II, as described by Dr. Nathan Hare. The officer(s) who lynched George Floyd under the color of law, suffer Addiction to White Supremacy Type I, while George suffered Type II. Whites who suffer Type I must work out their problems, and North American Africans, and African throughout the Diaspora, must find the way to recover from Type II, for we are in many ways "the other white people." Blond wigs and weaves, bleaching cream and attraction to European values of materialism, reveal we are black men and women dipped in chocolate, as Marvin X was told by a young man. Marvin X revises the AA 12-Step model for our purposes, adding the 13th Step: discovery. After all, after recovery shall we attend meetings forever as if we have traded one drug for another. After recovery, we must discover our mission is the liberation of our people throughout the Pan-African world.

In Wretched. of the Earth, Dr. Fran Fanon told us, and Dr. Nathan Hare (Black Anglo Saxons) concurs that the only way the oppressed people can maintain their mental equilibrium is through radical action for true and lasting freedom from all forms of oppression, although white supremacy is the most cunning and vile drug in the world, addicting entire nations and continents.

In his Foreword, Dr. Nathan Hare says, "Who knows, but it may be that Dr. M's (as he calls Marvin X) movement of recovery from addiction to and from white supremacy is offering us a final and effective change to begin to "sit down together" to get together and get our heads together...."

Dr. Mark Christian compares Marvin X to Walter Rodney, Steve Biko, Frances Cress Welsing, Bobby Wright, Nathan Hare and Dr. E. Franklin Frazier. "What I am most impressed with is Dr. M's Pan-Africanist perspective.

How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy is not a book to read but a manual to work. As they say in recovery meetings, "It works if you work it! 

Detoxification from White Supremacy
Twelve Steps (13)
Step 1: We are not powerless over self-hatred, racism white supremacy thinking but our lives have become unmanageable
Step 2: We have come to believe that a power within ourselves can restore us to sanity
Step 3: We have made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
Step 4:We shall make a searching and fearless moral inventory
Step 5: Admitted to God within and without the exact nature of our wrongs
Step 6: We are entirely ready to have God remove defects of character
Step 7: We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings
Step 8: Make a list of all Africans and others we have harmed
Step 9: Make direct amends to such people
Step 10: Continue to take personal inventory
Step 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God
Step 12: Carry the message to the Pan African world and other humans in the global community
Step 13: Discover Pan African consciousness and join the cultural revolution

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