Marvin X: From Burn Baby Burn to Black Lives Matter

Burn Baby Burn is a poem by American poet Marvin X,^[1] X wrote the poem shortly after the Watts Rebellion in 1965^[2][3][4] to convey the oppression black people faced in white America.^[5][6]

Is Burn, Baby, Burn, Marvin X's Greatest poem, written shortly after the Watts Rebellion, 1965?

Burn, Baby, Burn

Tired.
Sick an' tired
Tired of being
sick an' tired.



Lost.
Lost in the wilderness
of white america
are the masses asses?
cool said the master to the slave,
"No problem, don't rob an' steal,
I'll be your drivin wheel."


Cool.
And he wheeled us into 350 years
of black madness


to hog guts, conked hair, covadis
bleaching cream and uncle thomas
to Watts.
To the streets.
To the kill.
Boommm...2 honkeys gone.
Motherfuck the police
Parker's sista too.
Black people.
Tired.
sick an' tired.
tired of being
sick an' tired.
Burn, baby burn...
Don't leave dem boss rags
C'mon, child, don't mind da tags.
Git all dat motherfuckin pluck,
Git dem guns too, we 'on't give a fuck!
Burn baby burn
Cook outta sight


Fineburgs
whitefront
wineburgs
blackfront
burn, baby, burn
in time
he
will learn.

--Marvin X (Jackmon)
1965
from Soulbook Magazine, Fall, 1965

Burn Baby Burn appears in the anthologies Black Fire and S.O.S., the Black Arts Movement Reader.

One of the key publications of the black arts era was Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968). Edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, the book included poems, essays, drama, and fiction. by some of the movement's leading figures. In fact, writers' presence in Black Fire helped solidify their status as black arts contributors.

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population. Black Arts activists extended its reach even further through magazines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such as Soul and Like It Is, and on radio programs. Many of the movement's leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Tour?, Marvin X and Val Gray Ward remain artistically productive today. Its influence can also be seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L. Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Chuck D. SOS -- Calling All Black People includes works of fiction, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the impact of John Coltrane's jazz to the tenets of the Black Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors have provided a substantial introduction outlining the nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement as well as the principles by which the anthology was assembled.

References[edit]

1. ^ Negro Youth Culture and Identity: The Case of Hunters Point. University of California. 1967.
2. ^ John F. Szwed (25 July 2012). Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 566–. ISBN 978-0-307-82244-4.
3. ^ Margaret Ann Reid (2001). Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties. Peter Lang, New York. ISBN 978-0-8204-2482-8.
4. ^ Eldridge Cleaver (28 July 2015). Target Zero: A Life in Writing. St. Martin's Press. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-250-09153-6.
5. ^ Waldo E. Martin (30 June 2009). No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America. Harvard University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-674-04068-7.
6. ^ Bobby Seale (1991). Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. Black Classic Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-0-933121-30-0.

From Burn Baby Burn to Black Lives Matter

Jim Crow North

Powerful my brother! Your truth-telling keeps us going!
--Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University

The parents of Marvin X: Mrs. Marian M. Jackmon and Mr. Owendell Jackmon I at the 1945 San Francisco Peace Conference that led to the United Nations. 

Marvin X

Dad used to talk about Jim Crow South

Black Belt south cotton curtain

he and mama used to chant n double a cp all night long

all day long n double a cp

n double a cp this n that

as a baby boy i used to think n double a cp was a person

i was three or four

watching my parents publish their black newspaper fresno voice

same office was their real estate business 1948

i thought jim crow was a man too

but he lived down south

not in central valley fresno

not in oakland when we moved there

but mama and daddy still talked about n double a cp in oakland

on sundays we drove to the berkeley hills

see how rich white folks lived

didn't excite me

i wanted to hear dad say we going to the black belt

fillmore fillmore

seemed like it was more exciting than west oakland

seemed like there was more energy on fillmore street

but 7th street was jumping too

but i loved driving down fillmore

bumper to bumper cars

horns blowing neon lights flashing

black people styling n profiling

pimping n simping

my brother ollie wanted to b a pimp

never wanted to b nothin else

never was

except a client in the department of corrections

they never corrected him

cya didnt

san quentin soledad folsom didnt

mcneil island didnt

he said he had to kill jim crow in prison

said if he didnt kill jim crow

jim crow was gonna kill him

no ifs ands r buts.

--marvin x

5/28/20

When Life Gets Back to Normal


when life gets back to normal
will the hip hop negro pants still sag off his ass
will a black bitch still be a bitch  or will she transcend to goddess
queen of universe
mother of civilization
when life gets back to normal
will you hug kiss yr mama daddy real tight
will you make love to yr woman man late into night
will you raise high yr children and teach them right
will you stop trusting the devil and hold God up high
will you walk the lake
dont b lazy like marvin x
when life gets back to normal
will you do 4 self first
self and kind
will you drink wine with buddies who survived covid one nine
will u fight 4 freedom
liberation
reparations
end of patriarchal domination
no wife beating
child sex abuse
clean water to drink
no gmo food
no bill gates global vaccine eugenics
kill nigga african plan
planned parenthood
margaret sanger hillary clinton obama hitler
implant white supremacy dna who china plan
when life gets back to normal
will you kiss yo mama
hug yo daddy real tight
keep home schooling yr children
spare them white edumakation.

--marvin x
5/14/20

Can We Breathe

Can we breathe

ain't no air up in here

grab air squeeze it real tight

don't let it get away

fight

no surrender like cowards

don't let air choke us

lungs with blood

war been here

centuries

welcome sleepy time tea

mask can't save you 

home invasions next

they comin' to inject air

will you open door

HR6666

Black Panther Bobby Rush air

he don't care

Congressman now

flipped his bick

long time ago

go outside for air

stand tall breathe

let sunshine fill lungs

dogs can't stop sun

will try

but can't

let sun move you beyond fear

don't breathe fear air

stand

this is The End!

End is yr beginning

you never lived

enjoyed clean air

toxic fumes consumed yr life

walk the forest woods

talk to trees

just be.

--Marvin X

5/27/20

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

On Yesterday

On yesterday

they called law and order

no justice no peace

law and order

no justice no peace

no one wants more than justice

no one wants less

how can yesterday be today

but today is yesterday

we dance backwards

moonwalking with Michael

Michael said they don't care about us

Michael said the man in the mirror

Michael said remember the time

remember the time

law and order time

didn't work then

ain't workin' now

not on today.

--Marvin X

6/1/20

Venezuela Unblocked

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Venezuela Unblockaded

By Atilio A. Boron on  May 25, 2020

First of the Iranian oil tankers arrives in Venezuela

The arrival of the Iranian tanker Fortune to the great refinery of El Palito in Venezuela has a meaning far, far greater than the quantity of gasoline and other crucial supplies transported in this ship. There are other aspects that are much more important.  I would like to point out three.
First, this has successfully defied the U.S. blockade that impedes the arrival of all sorts of products – from food and medicine to the repair parts for the metro trains of Caracas to fuel – to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, blockaded and under attack.  This represents a major triumph for the government of Nicolás Maduro and a resounding defeat for the White House.  This is all the more true when we consider that the ships of the Fourth Fleet have been patrolling the Caribbean for a couple of months now, and could easily have intercepted this ship, which they did not do.
Second, that it has been precisely the Islamic Republic of Iran that succeeded in overcoming Washington’s prohibition.  This is another country that has been subject to the White House’s cruel sanctions, and even to the U.S. assassination of one of the principal figures of the Iranian government, General Qasem Soleimani, carried out early this year.  The international media, bought accomplices of the United States and accustomed to covering up its crimes, which has boldly ignored the slow assassination of Julian Assange in London, barely noted this and showed no tendency to reveal and analyze it.
Third, it remains to be seen what will happen with the other four tankers that are en route.  It is obvious that the Trump Administration has reversed its initial stance and its threats have remained just threats, typical bragging like a mob-boss personality who regards himself as the messiah, called to utilize his hoodlum techniques to restore the now-lost U.S. supremacy which it has held from the date of the fall of the Soviet Union until the attacks of September 11, 2001.  A sociopath who has been responsible for 100,000 deaths of his own people due to the mixture of arrogance and ignorance he has so clearly demonstrated,  as he plays out his re-election strategies while confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic which in less than 6 months has produced an economic depression worse than that of the 1930s.
But it is obvious that we have not reached the end of this history.  We will have to see what happens with the other four tankers.  It seems unlikely that Trump, battered by serious domestic problems, would order that they be stopped, attacked or sunk because these are serious acts of war loaded with unforeseeable consequences that would damage still more his waning chances of being re-elected next November 3rd. The most reliable electoral surveys show him 5 or 6 points behind a candidate as uninspiring as Joe Biden, and everything indicates that this gap will increase to the same degree as the deterioration of the internal situation of the United States. For another thing, Trump’s menaces were resoundingly responded to by Tehran.  President Hassan Rouhani warned Washington that his country would not remain indifferent if any “problems” occurred on the way to Venezuela.  In an unusually strong declaration, he said, “If the United States creates problems for us in the waters of the Caribbean or anywhere in the world, we will reciprocate and create problems for them.  We have a legitimate right to defend our territorial integrity and our national interests, and we hope the United States does not make a mistake.”
It is evident that the government of the U.S. is continuing to reap failures in its foreign policy.  The arrival of the Fortune is one more proof, and there are others.  Trump did not mince words in insulting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in 2017, and two years later he ended up crossing half the world in order to meet with him in the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas.
What was this change due to?
Noam Chomsky has said this hundreds of times: the United States only attacks defenseless countries.  North Korea is not only not defenseless, but has also developed a nuclear arsenal that even under U.S. aggression retains a retaliatory capability of reducing major cities to ashes, including Seoul, just 195 km away, and Tokyo, at a distance of 1,291 km. Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran do not fall into the category of defenselessness and for that reason they have been able to resist decades of diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, blockades, and despicable campaigns of demonization undertaken by “self-righteous intellectuals” of the type of Vargas-Llosa and the hundreds of publicists for the empire embedded in the major mass media, the so-called  ( miscalled) “free press” of our continent.  When the then-President of France Nicolas Sarkozy convinced Muammar Gaddafi that it made no sense to renovate his previously powerful air force since Libya and the West were now “friends,” he signed his death warrant.  He accepted the advice of the French leader and of the Mafia chief head of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, and when Washington mobilized NATO to blockade Libyan air space in 2011, Gaddafi was at the mercy of his rivals who overthrew him and not only captured him but also lynched him with savage brutality, as well as killing his three sons.  Gaddafi had disarmed; Venezuela, Cuba and Iran have not done so and for that reason alone, they remain free countries, although they have had to pay an exorbitant price for their daring self-respect, which has unleashed all the fury of the empire.
Not only have they not disarmed, but, learning from the history of all revolutions, they have created powerful people’s militias – in the case of Venezuela this includes all of four million members – whose mere mention sends cold chills down the backs of the U.S. warmongers when they remember the tremendous defeat that the Viet Cong handed them during the Vietnam War.  The definitive conclusion of this analysis will have to wait a few days until we see what happens with the other four tankers.  One of these, the Forest, is already in Venezuelan waters.  We will return to this theme as soon as this episode ends.
Source: Atilio Boron, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau

Blaxit--Time to leave Babylon, return to Motherland

Muhammida El Muhajir shares a compelling story on migrating to Africa. Is BLAXIT to Africa an Option for Black Americans and is the time NOW? During the final days of Ghana Tourism Authority's 2019 historic Year of Return, a TED Event was held to explore the impact of the campaign. Muhammida El Muhajir, who moved to Accra, Ghana in 2014 presented a talk called BLAXIT to share her experience, challenges returnees will face and explore the idea that Africa just might be the destination for African American's next Great Migration. Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affecting Blacks in America, low infection rate across the African continent and no end in sight to racial violence and terrorism, some are viewing re-locating to Africa as a viable option. "It's much worse being a second class citizen in the 'first world' than being a first-class citizen in the so-called third world," says El Muhajir in the 15 minute talk which also highlights the motivations for past black migrations and the realities of modern life in Ghana. El Muhajir is also completing a documentary showcasing the experience of 5 young African American professionals who have decided to BLAXIT.   WATCH BLAXIT TED TALK Read more about Muhammida El Muhajir's Blaxit experience in this Al Jazeera article  Sign Up to Learn More Share Tweet Forward Share Copyright © 2020 Black Love Lives, All rights reserved. culturally aware Our mailing address is: Black Love Lives BlackLoveLives Philadelphia, Pa 19143 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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Tarik, a filmscript by Michael Satchell

Jim Crow North

Dad used to talk about Jim Crow South

Black Belt southl cotton curtain

he and moma used to chant n double a cp all night long

all day long n double a cp

n double a cp this n that

as a baby boy i used to think n double a cp was a person

i was three or four

watching my parents publish their black newspaper fresno voice

same office was their real estate business 1948

i thought jim crow was a man too

but he lived down south

not in central valley fresno

not in oakland when we moved there

but moma and daddy still talked about n double a cp in oakland

on sundays we drove to the berkeley hills

see how rich white folks lived

didn't excite me

i wanted to hear dad say we going to the black belt

fillmore fillmore

seemed like it was more exciting than west oakland

seemed like there was more energy on fillmore street

but 7th street was jumping too

but i loved driving down fillmore

bumper to bumper cars

horns blowing neon lights flashing

black people styling n profiling

pimping n simping

my brother ollie wanted to b a pimp

never wanted to b nothin else

never was

except a client in the department of corrections

they never corrected him

cya didnt

san quentin soledad folsome didnt

mcneil island didnt

he said he had to kill jim crow in prison

said if he didnt kill jim crow

jim crow was gonna kill him

no ifs ands r buts.

--marvin x

5/28/20

OAKLAND MOORS AFTER LECTURE BY MARVIN X ON ISLAM IN THE BAY AREA

OAKLAND MOORS AFTER LECTURE BY MARVIN X ON THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN THE BAY AREA.

pboto Adam Turner

Notes on the consent of the governed

Marvin X at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, 2019
photo Adam Turner



On the consent of the governed

Isn't it amazing how people flip the language. I call it the psycholinguistic crisis of changing the narrative. Consent of the governed has morphed into consent of the governors by the astute students of The Prince, the chief ideologue of political chicanery. Consent of the governed has been completely, yes, critically, separated from political policy, most especially on the issue of taxes. If there are policy issues involving taxes, the consent of the governed is ignored as if the people's money is not the people's money, but the treasury belongs to the governors, i.e. politicians, especially whatever political party holds power at the moment, and most often the party in power and the opposition agree to share in the ownership and disbursement of the people's treasury based on taxation. Such political chicanery is only possible because the people lack advocates (as if the politicians were not voted into office for the express purpose of advocating for the people, i.e., the consent of the governed). But alas, the lobbyists control the governors, i.e., politicians, who bow down to lobbyists to the detriment of the people who are perennially duped, Hoodwinked and Bamboozled (Malcolm X, on his b day, May 19). Lobbyists overpower the people and politicians because they do not run for office but are sycophants of corporations who endow politicians beyond a vote, they enrich politicians with kibbles and bits beyond the value of a vote. Even the Congressional Black Caucus is often steeped in Democratic Party ideology, i.e., loyalty, so deeply that they will vote for party above loyalty to the agenda of North American Africans. Right wing conservative Rush Limburg labeled them the Caucus of Black Caucasians. Perhaps he is politically correct, after all they voted to kidnap black revolutionary Sista Asata Shakur from Cuba, but reversed their vote when the consent of the governed informed them she was a member of the BLM or Black Liberation Army. 

Recently former Black Panther Bobby Rush of Chicago voted to allow the government to invade homes of the people to make sure they submitted to Covid19 globalist regulations. Can you believe his legislation was labeled HR6666. 

One day I asked my revolutionary comrade, Amiri Baraka, do we have lobbyists? He said yes we have lobbyists but they don't lobby for us! I said well what will it cost for them to lobby for us? He didn't answer me.

Not long ago I had lunch with some friends and colleagues, including a Washington DC lobbyist. An art professor asked him what he did since she didn't know him although most of us did. He informed her he was a lobbyist. She asked for whom? He said, "For anybody who pays me!" The professor went silent. But he informed me after lunch that the Republicans paid better than Democrats, although he came from the radical Bay Area, from Merritt College, although after I had departed but not to get usurped into the Black Panther Party that consumed student politics soon after I departed, 1964. He became a leader of the Soul Students Advisory Council that became the Black Students Union at Merritt and later throughout the nation at black and white colleges and universities.

But let us return to the main subject: are we not in a quagmire, a conundrum, a matrix of which we will need to have expertise beyond rocket scientists to extricate ourselves from the box, the black hole or white hole of Pax Americana. With our myriad mental and physical toxicities, we can't comprehend the complexity of interlocking directorates oppressing our liberation, yes, from a host of institutions that are often beyond our comprehension. Even the linguistics (fake news, fake blues, fake jazz, fake women with blond hair, dead hair, pants sagging of asses, men and women, fakism is a maze of word magic with ever changing identity confusion. Am I black, am I white, am I man, woman, trans, what? This identity confusion results from lack of manhood and womanhood training or rites of passage. See Jomo Kenyatta's ethnography of his Gikuyu tribe, Facing Mt. Kenya. 

We came here as kidnapped African victims of the American slave system (American slave system, Ed Howard term). Then we became niggas/negroes, an invented phenomena of the slave system. There is no Negroland. So since there was no Negroland, we became Colored, although there is no land of colored people, in fact we discovered the colored people are the white people since black is not a color, black is the prime from which all colors derive. Elijah Muhammad had to inform us the colored man is the white man and we are the aboriginal people of the planet earth. Black is the prime from which all colors come. Black is the aboriginal in all cultures throughout the planet earth. In Europe the first white man was the black man, known as negrito and/or Grilmaldi. Elijah told us wherever you go on the planet earth you will find evidence we were there first, no matter China, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Arabia, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Cambodia. And dismiss the white suprematist fake narrative that we were slaves in all the lands where we were the aboriginal inhabitants. The Arabs will tell you that black people were in Egypt before they came. Diop said the Egyptians and Canaanites were brothers. The Jews/Hebrews do not appear in Canaan until Abraham wanders into the land and mates with Sarah, producing Isaac from which the Jews or Hebrews originated. Then Abraham mated with his Egyptian servant and produced Ishmael, from which the Arabs descended. There were no Jews or Arabs before Abraham wandered into Canaan. The Egyptian empire extended from the Nile to the Tigres and Euphrates, from Yemen (Queen of Sheba land) to Palestine or Jerusalem, i.e. Canaan. See the classic study on Aboriginal Arabia, Wonderful Ethiopians of the ancient Cushite Empire, Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Black Classic Press, 1985.

Thus we cannot be Colored people or people of color since we are the prime from which all colors come or originate. Please do not refer to us as people of color. 

Lawn kuli min sudan

all colors come from black

ka umma sudan

your mama is black

ka abu sudan

your daddy is black....

Medical Dictatorship

Covid19 has demonstrated Elijah Muhammad's Myth of Yakub was no myth, if we define myth not as a story but as a lie. The main workers in this Covid19 pandemic are the same three workers Dr. Yakub utilized in his biotech lab to create the white man, aka, white Devil, by separating the dominant gene from the recessive. In his genetic engineering experiment, his three workers were the doctor, nurse and undertaker. Are not the doctors in WHO (World Health Organization) orchestrating the solution to Covid19? Ironically, the WHO or Voodoo or Dodo Medical scientists have been associated with the lab in Wunan, China to the research labs at UNC, Chapel Hill, the University of Texas, Austin and elsewhere. The so-called head medical officer to solve the Covid19 pandemic in the US, Dr. Fauci, has received multi million dollar grants from the Bill Gates foundation to experiment with viruses. Eldridge Cleaver told us one is either part of the problem or part of the solution. Not with the Neo-Yakubian medical workers. They are the problem and the solution. Bill Gates is a Eugenicist like his parents who worked with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, whose ideas of population control were emplemented by Hitler to exterminate the Jews.  Gates puts on his hat to create the Covid19 vaccine and the implant to track the population in the best Chinese Communist model that Sillicon Valley co-created. 

Welcome to the Yakubian medical dictatorship. Your life is under the control of the doctor, nurse and undertaker. The US Constitution has been thrown into the dustbin of history. Without the soon to be issued medical passport, you shall not be able to leave your house. Any violation shall be your ticket to the concentration camp.

--MARVIN X

5/16/20 

 

When life gets back to normal

when life gets back to normal
will the hip hop negro pants still sag off his ass
will a black bitch still be a bitch  or will she transcend to goddess
queen of universe
mother of civilization
when life gets back to normal
will you hug kiss yr mama daddy real tight
will you make love to yr woman man late into night
will you raise high yr children and teach them right
will you stop trusting the devil and hold God up high
will you walk the lake
dont b lazy like marvin x
when life gets back to normal
will you do 4 self first
self and kind
will you drink wine with buddies who survived covid one nine
will u fight 4 freedom
liberation
reparations
end of patriarchal domination
no wife beating
child sex abuse
clean water to drink
no gmo food
no bill gates global vaccine eugenics
kill nigga african plan
planned parenthood
margaret sanger hillary clinton obama hitler
implant white supremacy dna who china plan
when life gets back to normal
will you kiss yo mama
hug yo daddy real tight
keep home schooling yr children
spare them white edumakation.

--marvin x
5/14/20

Highlights from Marvin X in Concert

From the archives: Resurrection of the Dead by Marvin X, 1972

 In 1972, Marvin X's Black Educational Theater in San Francisco's Fillmore District, produced his myth-ritual dance drama Resurrection of the Dead, choreography by Raymond Sawyer, music by Juju. Lead actor/singer was Victor Willis ( who went on to become the lead singer of the Village People). Victor said, "Performing in Resurrection gave me the energy to tackle NYC." In this scene, dancers Jamal and Charlene Hunter, aka, Jamilah Hunter, perform The Lost Queen of Egypt. Jamilah went on to dance with Shirley McClain and Alvin Ailey.
Marvin was also teaching at UC Berkeley in the Black Studies Department, along with Sun Ra and his Myth-Science Arkestra. Together they performed the musical version of X's Flowers for the Trashman, renamed Take Care of Business in a five hour concert ( without intermission) with a cast of fifty, including his actors, Sun Ra's dancers, the Raymond Sawyer and Ellendar Barnes' dancers.

BAM Co founder Marvin X and Sun Ra, Father of Afrofuturism

DR. CORNEL WEST AND MARVIN X IN CONVERSATION

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wyZW8Tsh3wPxRMn-T4fxcceD3hZSUgIM/view?usp=drivesdk

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Round Midnight
Marvin X

Monk's gone
I ain't blue
where he's gone
you goin too
Monk's gone
I ain't blue

Death'
always round
tryin' ta steal life

Death always round
tryin' ta steal life

If it don't get husband
get da wife

Monk's gone
but I ain't blue

Death always round
tryin' ta steal life
Death always round
tryin' ta steal life
If it don't get husband
get da wife.
Monks gone
I ain't blue.
--Marvin X

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Photographer Adam Turner captures writer Marvin X "Round Midnight"

Marvin X writing "Round Midnight" when he is at his best, more precisely around 3AM.

photo Adam Turner

In the wee hours of the morning, Marvin X, poet, essayist, editor and publisher of Blackbird Press,  does much of his best work. Silence and solitude is golden for him. We were privileged to capture this moment in the life of the master poet.

--Adam Turner, photographer

wanda's picks interview with marvin x and TARIK author michael j satchell

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Wanda interview with Black Bird Press Publisher/Editor Marvin X and TARIK film script writer Michael J. Michael James Satchell

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