Thursday, November 5, 2020

How to live in this world but not be of this world

How to live in this world but not be part of this world


Marvin X reading at the University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference on Afro-futurism, 2015
photo Burrell Sunrise


Marvin X reading at Laney College, Oakland. He read a scene from his play One Day in the Life, recounting his last meeting with Black Panther Party Co-Founder Dr. Huey P. Newton in a West Oakland Crack house.

photo Alicia Mayo

Live one day at a time, one 24/7. Get through one day without using your AK and it will be a great day because people will challenge you at every turn to use your AK. May patron told me why kill a dead fly that's already dead?

So stay prayed up and don't be moved by anyone or anything. Peace be still. If you be still and stop tying to go to the world, guess what, the world will come to you. Stay prayed up and this will keep you on the positive vibration.

Let nothing move you. Remember that Christian song from the Civil Rights Movement, I Shall Not Be Moved? Be like Hammer You can't touch this! With the armor of God, no one can touch you with vibrations from the low information mentality, i.e., ignorance and evil.

Don't be deceived by pronouncements from the monkey mind media or fake news. Fake news has kept you steeped in ignorance, drunk on the low information vibration. Stay prayed up. Don't believe the hype from any source, Right, Left, Center. 

Listen and talk with God. He hears those who praise Him. Our Lord to Thee is due all praise! Your Divine Mind tells you everything if you will listen and tune out the whisperings of the devil who whispers into the hearts of men and women. The voice of God shall not deceive you, the voice of the devil shall land you in a burning fire of men and stones, says Al Qur'an.

Stay prayed up. Pray going out and coming in, for you don't know what is outside your door when you exit, and if you make it back home safely, give all praise to your Lord as soon as you enter. This is how I live each 24/7. Even in my dope fiend and hustling days, I would never have a bad day, after all, a dope fiend and hustler can and will come up from a night of nothingness and dread. I was highly motivated and accepted no part of no in my madness. But it takes the same energy to do nothing and to do something positive. Even now, as a hustler, I don't accept a bad day, it's not part of my world. My cup stays half filled rather than half empty. I tell people who come to me crying about losing their job: one door closes but another one opens. And I say the same to those who come to me crying about losing a relationship partner after a short time or long time since I have visited couples in long term relationships that don't know each other after two decades together, so they are together but not together and often their love is a twisted form of hate along with the golden handcuffs that has perks that allow them to stay in their state of wretchedness. But ultimately the sand seeps into the bottom of the hour glass and they shall confront the moment of truth. Even then their dance of love may not be over, they just need to heal because in their trauma, grief and depression, they are exhausted and simply need time to recover their mental equilibrium  and physical stamina to return to the battlefield of love. Too often couples separate only to connect with a new lover with similar issues, they only have a different name. 
--Marvin X
11/5/20
--Marvin X
11/5/20

Neelam Drill for Justice

Saviours' Day Drill Competition - 2016 Commercial

The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited - Live Capitol July 4th 2001

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Politics 2020: White folks bizness

Politics 2020: White folks bizness

Marvin X







It appears the Devil has lost to Satan, no matter the Devil drew many to his side, especially ethnicities and black men who appreciated the devil's filthy mouth and macho man persona. Latinox men loved the macho man devil as well. But Satan had global forces on his side. Remember the serpent who deceived the world, such is Satan today and if Satan has won a victory over the devil, hold onto your hats and put on the armor of God, for you shall surely endure the wrath of Satan but if you keep the faith in your Lord, like Job, Satan will persecute you in multiple ways but he shall not be able to kill you. God gave orders to Satan, aka, Devil, but told him he was free to do everything to Job except kill him. Even Job's wife turned against him, telling him to curse God and die, but Job dismissed her mouth talking loud but saying nothing. Job kept the faith as you must do as experience the beginning of sorrows. We are already suffering the plague, economic meltdown, homelessness throughout the land shall be multiplied, and we may be on the verge of civil war that may morph into racial war if North American Africans declare independence, self-determination and nationhood, a solid move for the black agenda but the white backlash may be awesome since the African captured and retained in the American slave system (Ed Howard term) has been the heart and soul of the white Supremacist nation. African labor has made America mighty and strong, African music, athletic skills has won innumerable titles for America in all sports. His brainpower has contributed to science and technology, yet his is treated like the Dalits in India, so-called untouchables in the Hindu caste system. The North American African is indeed at the bottom ladder of America's multi-cultural caste hierarchy. Even the billionaire black woman Oprah Winfrey was not allowed to purchase goods in a high end London store.

A multi-million dollar black man may not be able to catch a taxi from downtown New York to uptown Harlem on late nights, (pre-Uber).
The catalogue of inequities is too long but the world knows the glass ceiling is there for blacks who strive to break the glass as a simple assertion of their humanity.

So Job, aka, North American African, may enjoy an  ephemeral respite but he best prepare for the battle of his life, and only his unity shall save him. We pray he gets his shit together expeditiously and not suffer the fate of Polish Jews who were disunited but when they decided to come together it was too late, Hitler's gas chambers cared nothing about their sudden unity except they were indeed unified in the chambers. We know death is better than oppression so better we die together than suffer a solitary fate thinking the Devil/Satan/Shaitan is not coming for us. Ask the Native American scouts who directed the white man to the Native American resisters, but the scouts found themselves prisoners of war as well and joined their native brother and sisters in the concentration camps called reservations that last until today, most are wretched hovels, much like the ghetto rat holes many North American Africans inhabit.

Yes, what have we got to lose except our chains? In the last civil war in America, 200,000 African warriors were critical in the defeat of the South, yet we suffered the great fate of disarming the 200,000 African warriors and I maintain all of our trials and tribulations stem from the disarming of our warriors, including the betrayal of Reconstruction, Jim Crow lynchings and the great migration North to only continue wage slavery and the actions of pseudo liberals who dominated our bodies and minds with their smiling faces, aka, tricknology that we had not experienced in the South since the southern whites made no pretense about loving us. 

As per white folks bizness, was it Lenin or Stalin who said it doesn't matter who votes, only who counts the votes. North American Africans have experienced their votes discounted or discarded for decades. The Voting Rights Act only gave lie to our citizenship because only of late did any other Americans need use of the Act, and even the Act must be renewed yet there are calls for it to be terminated, no doubt, so we can continue to be victims of American democracy rather than its champions and best defenders, although we have defended this democracy in every battle of its history, yet still do not enjoy equity for our labor under the American sun.

I have written about my vision that this.nation shall balkanize before or after the second civil war. We imagine it shall break into ethnic enclaves or Left/Right ideological national formations. In light of such, what is our agenda as the American pie breaks into pieces?
Why should not North American Africans enjoy five states of the fifty, a minimum reparations demand, or shall we simply declare five southern states as our homeland and independent nation. As per national security, we suggest a defense system similar to Israel's Iron Doom Defense shield so that we don't suffer a repeat of Black Wall Street and similar attempts to destroy our communities. But we know the horrors of communal life with low morals and freedom without discipline, so we should not imagine a nation of people with a myriad agendas ultimately leading to chaos since there is no unified ideology or spiritual component that allows us to plan and function now and into the future. Thus, the question shall be what is the consensus for nationhood, what is the unifying ideology that shall be the glue that cements our communal existence? If we should separate into a nation, only Vudun as it was explained to me as a democratic society, seems the practical spiritual apparatus for our mutual progress. We know in simple terms, Vudun allowed acknowledgement of all the gods to have equal respect in the ritual drama. If not Vudun, we shall need a similar unifying ideology that does not malign and exclude religious, political formations, no matter Christian, Muslim, Yoruba, Rasta, Marxist, Socialist, no sect, cult, political or cultural group can be allowed to dominate unless by consensus. There must first be linguistic consensus: if there is no consensus of basic definitions, the result is chaos as we know from the perennial meetings and conferences we hold that often end in chaos because the attendees cannot agree on basic definition of terms. For example, your definition of freedom is not my definition. My definition is do for self. Your definition is a job for life.
Her definition of freedom is enjoying same gender loving relationships. Some of these questions must be addressed before any discussion of national independence or sovereignty, otherwise our proposed nation will disintegrate from within and without, since there will be a myriad external forces working to obstruct our national aspirations. But, for sure, we shall be our worst enemy, self against self, since there are those who are devoid knowledge of self after being programed into the Negropean  personality, i.e., Black Anglo-Saxons (Dr. Hare), Black Skins/White Masks (Dr. Frantz Fanon). The Negropeans hated Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King. You do know that the Black National Baptist Convention threw Martin Luther King, Jr., out the door, declaring he was a hoodlum and a thug. In the now, it was announced on the social media that black preachers were paid to endorse the Devil and Satan as well. We call them Pharaoh's magicians but we have a plethora of magicians to guard against and deprogram before they will be ready for citizenship in the Black Nation of Righteous Men and Women.
--Marvin X
11/4/20 

Fake News and the Low information vibration mentality


The American people, white, black, brown, yellow, no matter, suffer from the low information vibration mentality. You may recall that after 911, the media confessed to keeping Americans ignorant of world affairs, thus Americans have little or no information about global affairs, especially the machinations of the devils who transcend any semblance of nationalism in their embrace of neo-imperialism known as globalism. Yes, the world is a global village but most villagers are disconnected from their fellow villagers around the world. A simple example, few North American Africans realize there are more Africans in Brazil than in America. And if we had not been so starry-eyed with our rose colored glasses, we would have known, as my radical comrades tried to tell me, do not get overjoyed with President Obama because he is a known type throughout Africa with its plethora of presidents and prime ministers for life, who shamelessly carry out the agenda of European globalists, or the neo-imperialists, i.e., colonialists. President Obama fit neatly into the African political personality 
that is a simple sycophant for international white supremacy, aka, globalism, although I want to be very that globalism may be dominated by Europeans but it is multi-culturalism right-wing style. President Obama carried out American political and military policies under the direction of the globalist agenda in tandem with the American military, industrial, university, technological complex literally in bed with a multitude of globalists in their various ethnic identities, all of whom see the world with global eyes in the best tradition of capitalism, and with the inclusion of China, are now integrating the capitalist economic model with the Chinese Communist model of controlling the masses or socalled workers who are wage slaves under Western capitalism but even better and cheaper wage slaves under the Chinese model. Sometimes when you learn from you enemy you become your enemy. Perhaps the West has been duped by China who has obviously pirated American technology to their advantage, even demanded Americans and 

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Donald Trump: A Deconstruction of the Devil who may be replaced by Satan in the morning

 Donald Trump: A Deconstruction of the Devil who may be replaced by Satan in the morning

by
 Marvin X

We were taught in Physics 101 that for every action there is a corresponding and equal reaction. After the first Black President, who didn't know there would be a white backlash? President Obama's election and two-term tenure in the White House rattled the loins of dye-hard white supremacists who inhabit their perpetual world of make believe. James Baldwin called it an airless room. Is this why George Floyd cried out he couldn't breathe. no matter the pig boot on his neck. We all endure that boot in a myriad ways as we go about our daily round. Don't we suffer weekly variations on the theme of breathing, yes, the last breath? But the reaction to Obama was so much deeper than the perennial police violence. Whites may know nothing else except they are white and have a strong sense that their world of white power is coming to an end. No one likes losing power with all the perks and privileges derived from such power. 

So the natural reaction to President Obama was a need to recapture the rapidly disappearing sense of white power in the white mind set.

For sure, there was no altering of white economic domination. There was no transference of money via reparations or any other method. Talk of reparations has evolved into a more serious conversation as a result of President Trump's reassertion of white power. Can't you sense that some of the most asinine pronouncements uttered from the mouth of President Trump are from a region of the mind no sane person would harbor, not in 2020. Yes, we hear exactly what we thought we heard and are utterly astounded that a white man, alas, the President of the United States of America, would have the gull to utter such. You may as I do, suspect a demon spirit in operating here, a communal  spirit in the rapidly vanishing tribe of white supremacists who are determined to live in their fantasy land of white mythology.
It is astonishing to see President Trump's reaction to the 1619 Project and his concomitant order to cease all educational projects to address the pervasive issues of systemic and structural racism throughout the American cultural fabric, yes, in every nook and cranny.
But all societies persist in their myths often only to maintain their false sense of reality. 


Marvin X at Laney College Theatre (his former classroom, 1981), Oakland, opening for Donald Lacy's play Color Struck. Marvin read the scene from his play One Day in the Life that depicts his last meeting with Huey P. Newton, Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party, in a West Oakland Crack House.
Photo Alicia Mayo


As we began with the law of physics and the white reaction to Obama in the White House, we can conclude with knowledge that current events may be the natural balancing act to the toxic virus of white supremacy, a thousand times more toxic than Covid19. Wasn't there a resent study on the cost of maintaining racism and discrimination that amounted to trillions of dollars? As we may soon learn if we are to endure Trump 2.0 or Biden 1.0, we should know that we can configure a better myth for ourselves than the Myth of Sisyphus, who was doomed to carry that rock up the mountain only to have it knocked out of his hands thus forced to descend only to begin anew. No matter if tomorrow we learn we no longer have satan, but the devil, clearly we have not and shall not have recovered our mental equilibrium and cultural advancement. Until we have devised a plan that transcends the sick American political quagmire, and this plan must be for the next fifty to two hundred years, we shall indeed continue the insanity of Sisyphus going up and down the mountain thinking he will one day arrive at the top. Sad and tragic is the reality that if and when he reaches the top, the glass ceiling awaits him, thus, in his despair he shall then throw himself headlong over the precipice into the chasm of nothingness and dread, having never achieved the dreams of his ancestors due to his grand denial and refusal to plan and follow his own agenda. Alas, if you don't have an agenda, someone has one for you!
--Marvin X
11/3/20

Neelam Drill for Justice


Let a Million Men March, let a Million Women March! Elijah said no politician of this world can save you. He said Vote for Allah and follow him. If it was truth yesterday, it's truth today. You had a black president who was totally helpless when it came to your liberation agenda. Africa is full of helpless presidents and prime ministers totally useless and sycophants of the European white supremacists if not in the present era, the Chinese supremacists. Where is that one righteous politician so God can save the town? Where is one who won't take a bribe, where is one who can't be bought because he is loyal to the masses of his people? Where is the one who can't be caught in honey traps? Where is the one who will not lie to his people. Let us find him and do not betray him for a mess of pottage! Don't ask me to vote for Tweedledum and Tweedledee, between the devil and satan. I vote for Allah. To hell with men on the low information vibration mentality. Some men are so low and wicked that you think because this is a capitalist society, they are motivated by money, but their wickedness and debauchery transcends money because they already have all the money, so you know the evil that motivates them has nothing to do with money. You cannot believe they are without hearts and souls, but it doesn't matter what you believe when the facts on the ground tell the truth. Guard against being deceived and most importantly don't be deceived by your own mind. Fa salli li Rabbika: so pray to your Lord! Rabbana laka al humd: Our Lord to Thee is due all praise!
---Marvin X
11/3/20

Monday, November 2, 2020

Vote for me, I'll set you free and Coming soon: A Documentary on life and times of North American African Poet Marvin X: The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience

 Coming soon: The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience 

A Documentary Co-Produced by Marvin X and Ken Johnson

I am thankful for my creative association with Ken Johnson and all of the artists who have been a part of my productions over the many years. We have no budget for this project but if it is successful we will share any funds generated with every person that has contributed to this creative property. Part I includes my Crazy House in America Concert at the African American Culture Center, San Francisco, 2003. FYI, the Director of the Fulton Street AACC was London Breed, now Mayor of San Francisco. Guess we will need a cameo appearance by Da Mayor, especially since we have footage of former Mayor Willie Brown for later parts of this documentary, and also footage of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. This documentary will be about 18 hours in length. Part I is 2 hours, 13 minutes. Finally, we may want to interview some of you about your relationship with this peripatetic, indefatigable  poet. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call or email me: 510-575-7148, jmarvinx@yahoo.com. If you have any suggestions on how to fund this project, let me know ASAP. But this project shall be done with or without funds since we have 99% of the material in my archives.
Sincerely,
Marvin X

Part I, The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience

a documentary on the life and times of a North American African
Poet, Playwright, Producer, Publisher, Educator, Activist, a Co-Founder of the Black Arts Movement and Co-Founder of Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District 
 

Written, Directed, Produced and Performed by Marvin X

Ken Johnson, Associate Producer and Executive Editor of Documentary

Associate videographers, photographers/editors

William Hammons
Khalid Waajib
Ptah Allah El,  Adam Turner, Kamau Amen Ra, RIP 
 

Participants and Performers

Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Cat Brooks
James Rhodes

Performers

Tacuma King, percussionist
Kele Nitoto, percussionist
Najie, baritone sax, RIP
Destiny Muhammad, harp
Suzzette Celeste, speaker, dancer
Raynetta Rayzetta, dancer, RIP
Geoffery Grier, actor
Judy Jackmon, actor
Dr. Salat Townsend, actor, RIP
James W. Sweeney, actor, RIP



Marvin X was true to the Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience. As featured presenter, after his scheduled one hour, he was held over for a second hour. The video of this Zoom event should be available soon, the producers promise. "I did enjoy myself but talking for two hours is rather exhausting."


Speaking at the University of Chicago, Sun Ra Conference
photo Burrell Sunrise

Marvin X and Oakland City Council President, Lynette McElhaney
in happier times. He supports Carol Fife to unseat Lynette. "Lynette is not a truthful person! We had to force her to push through legislation to establish the Black Arts Movement Business District, after which she sat on her behind and tried to dominate the BAMBD but did nothing to secure funding since 2016."

photo Adam Turner


Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X talk before their Conversation at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, December 6, 2019


"Congresswoman Barbara Lee is the only member of the Caucus of Black Caucasians I respect. Vote for Lee or don't talk to me!"

photo Adam Turner



Othello and Desdemona, aka Marvin X and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf in happier times. See his reading of Driving Miss Libby on YouTube. LOL

photo Jahahara Alkebulan Ma-at

"We support Rebecca Kaplan for Mayor. She is often more supportive of Blacks than other Black Oakland City Council members.



Paul Cobb, Publisher of Oakland Post, City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan and Marvin X, Publisher of Black Bird Press News and Review



"During my addiction and recovery, Rev. Cecil Williams and his wife Jan Mirikitani did all they could to help me until they could do no more. Thank you Cecil and Jan for putting up with my Wild Crazy Ride. On right, Dr. Nathan Hare, our esteemed Elder and my Chief Advisor." 


Marvin X reading at Laney College, Oakland
photo Alicia Mayo


Left to right: Marvin X, Emory Douglas, Donald Lacy and John Burris, Esq.

photo Adam Turner 

Marvin X blasts off to Jupiter at the 35th Melanin Conference on Zoom today


Marvin X was true to the Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience. As featured presenter, after his scheduled one hour, he was held over for a second hour. The video of this Zoom event should be available soon, the producers promise. "I did enjoy myself but talking for two hours is rather exhausting."


Speaking at the University of Chicago, Sun Ra Conference
photo Burrell Sunrise

Marvin X and Oakland City Council President, Lynette McElhaney
in happier times. He supports Carol Fife to unseat Lynette. "Lynette is not a truthful person! We had to force her to push through legislation to establish the Black Arts Movement Business District, after which she sat on her behind and tried to dominate the BAMBD but didn't nothing to secure funding since 2016."

photo Adam Turner

Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X talk before their Conversation at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, December 6, 2019


"Congresswoman Barbara Lee is the only member of the Caucus of Black Caucasians I respect. Vote for Lee or don't talk to me!"

photo Adam Turner


Othello and Desdemona, aka Marvin X and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf in happier times. See his reading of Driving Miss Libby on YouTube. LOL

photo Jahahara Alkebulan Ma-at

"We support Rebecca Kaplan for Mayor. She is often more supportive of Blacks than other Black Oakland City Council members.


"During my addiction and recovery, Rev. Cecil Williams and his wife Jan Mirikitani did all they could to help me until they could do no more. Thank you Cecil and Jan." On right, Dr. Nathan Hare, our esteemed Elder.

photo Adam Turner

Sunday, November 1, 2020

We live in the house of death

 We live in the house of death


Only talk in the hood

who died

who got out of prison

no other conversation





Death lived here long before Covid19
Death came with Columbus
Cortez
Change your name Mis Cortez leader of the Green Squad

You La Raza La Raza La Raza

we Poder Negro Poder Negro Poder Negro

Digame Cortez

Sun Ra said everything is in names

Death is names

How many Africans died in the name of Jack's son John's son

How many escaped into the night of Harriett Tubma

Only to eat death in the swamps Woods forests

After Lincoln death was strange fruit

Jim Crow death

Picnic lynch nigger death

Migration death north

Never going back to Alabama death

No more Mississippi death

Mississippi Goddamn Nina Simone said

Smiling at White woman Emmit Til death

Jet Magazine open coffin death

Chicago redlining death

Raisin in the Sun death

Death of dreams

Desire

Inspiration motivation death will

Let me drink to death

Libation to death

What a wonderful life!

And you think capitalism is money

they have all the money

print it at will

capitalism is death mental death toxic death virus in the mind death


print your money escape white death white dollar death

paper dollar death 

bitcoin blackcoin

black only trade in blackcoin

I don't truth blackcoin

might steal all yo money

white man never steal

didn't he steal you yo mama daddy sista brother

he good guy in white hat never steal

blackcoin steal

blackcoin black no good

bitcoin safe white man safe

yet white ice colder than black man ice

white suffice!

 --MARVIN X

11/1/20

Friday, October 30, 2020

The Monkey Mind Media and Interlocking Directorates

 The Monkey Mind Media and Interlocking Directorates



Marvin X
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020, 05:04:37 PM PDT
Subject: media

When the New York Post ran its article on the Biden laptop and the socalled mainstream media, aka, the Fake News or in my linguistics The Monkey Mind Media refused to share the information with the long starving, low information mentality American people, this suppression of information critical to the truth of American politics on the eve of the presidential election. Thus, for all times, the American media has disqualified itself as per being fair and balanced, for any iota of objectivity was cast into the dustbin of American history. For sure, the monkey mind media's suppression of truth signals the termination of any pretense of legitimacy in the mainstream and pseudo progressive media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, et al. Yet this media  supposedly represents the truth but has wrapped itself in a kind of Stalinist, Nazi propaganda machine of truth suppression in league with the political party hoping to win the coming election. We don't agree with much of the Left's ideological pronouncements, and most certainly we don't concur with the Right's wants and desires to maintain white supremacy, especially not when the capitalists own and control 99% percent of the wealth while they are members of the 1% Club, thus the 85% wage slaves, i.e., workers who produce the wealth are merely cogs in the wheel of the filthy capitalist blood suckers of the poor slave making machine. And sadly they are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Despite the foibles and extreme character flaws of hubris, narcissism and a host of other "negrocities" (Amiri Baraka term he told me not to steal, RIP, LOL) and psychosocial expressions of allegiance to white supremacy (FYI, we ain't mad at white people who want to remain white and not join the pseudo multicultural agenda) of Donald Trump and his tribe, perhaps the last hurrah of the white nationalist tribe . 

Although, let's be clear, when the Left proposes its agenda that too often is part of the Globalist, Chinese agenda, we must immediately admit white supremacy is no longer white and has morphed into a multicultural agenda in league with the most strident white supremacists, those in the tech world and corporate entities of whom 40% of entities we identity as producers of "Made in China" are white and multicultural, alas, including North American African entertainers and athletes in bed with those "Made in China" economic institutions. Did we not see LaBron James refuse to condemn the Hong Kong freedom fighters to maintain his economic dealings with China? Is not the Islamic world mostly singing Silent Night to the Muslim concentration camps in Western China, and the Buddhists are singing the same song regarding Tibet. Thus, globalism transcends white supremacy. In Oakland, Ca and elsewhere, gentrification and the concomitant homelessness is partially caused by Wall Street investors.
In East Oakland, previously heart of the North American African community in the post 60s era,  40% of single family housing is owned by Wall Street, again, a multi-cultural conglomerate that is without mercy as per the almighty dollar. The dollar is an equal opportunity medium of exchange. Sadly, as in politics, so in economics: there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

Long time business partners will suddenly turn on each other for economic advancement. The Biden business partner now disclosing their family criminal activities said he was doing so because he was cut out of the Biden family game in their greed and sloth in becoming sycophants of China, to the extent of submitting to honey traps, child pornography and debauchery, all captured on video and emails.

The American political morass is so sinister and problematic that we can only said the choice is between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Many of my political comrades say take the lesser of two evils and don't throw the baby out with the wash water. But I'm not one to settle for a taco, I want the whole enchilada, in fact, I want national sovereignty, the choice never presented to us upon socalled emancipation. We were duped into pseudo citizens of America and have languished in the cesspool of Americana even since, victims of the Sisyphus syndrome of traversing with the rock of freedom in our hands only to have it knocked out and thus we must tread back down the mountain to recover the freedom rock to begin anew.

Imagine, it will take us 240 years to equal the wealth whites have today. The notion that if we were a nation, we would be the 16th richest nation in the world is debunked because we are a nation of consumers and little of our wealth remains in the hood. Again, it is siphoned out by multi-cultural blood suckers of the poor, yes, by every ethnic group from around the world who has heard North American Africans can be pimped until our drawers fall off.

We are victims of an interlocking directorate of global and national institutions, economic, ethnic and cultural, that make our liberation nearly impossible although we shall never give up faith in national liberation, no matter how long and difficult. Four hundred years have passed, so we may yet suffer another hundred or two until we finally decide to no longer be hoodwinked and bamboozled, until we are able to successfully trick the trick out of the trick, no matter media tricks, political and economic tricks, gender tricks, religiosity tricks and most of all, tricks we play on our minds when self deceives self. As we know, the greatest Jihad is to win one's own soul!

At least since Machiavelli we have known the myriad tricks of politics, not that the many holy books have not made clear the duplicities of politics in the many ancient kingdoms that have come and gone with intrigue, greed and deception, among the reasons why they are no more. Solomon told us there is nothing new under the sun, and all is vanity and vexation. Again, we can only say guard against being deceived. Put on the armor of God and walk the straight path. 

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

I love books



Lewis Michaux inside his African National Memorial Book Store,Harlem NY



 I love books. I spent my youth and young adult years reading books on every subject. When I got to Harlem I spent my money on books, clothes and taxis. But books mattered to me the most. Now I devoured the Richardson's Marcus Garvey Books in San Francisco. Furthermore, Julian Richardson and his wife Raye mentored Bay Area Black radicals and printed our publications such as Black Dialogue Magazine, Journal of Black Poetry and our chapbooks of poetry as well as reprinting the works of Marcus Garvey and the classic by George M James Stolen Legacy. But once I hit Harlem NY, I was overwhelmed with Lewis Michaux's African National Memorial Book Store. Of course I also fell in love at the Mosque#7 bookstore operated by Larry X Prescott, aka Akhbar Muhammad.


Although I was in bad standing with the Nation of Islam, Minister Farrakhan allowed me to visit the store with its collection of Islamic literature.  Now Liberation Book Store on Lenox Ave, aka Malcolm X Ave was a nice place to visit and distribute the chapbooks of poetry by us Black Arts Movement artists.


Marvin X in Harlem, 1968
Doug Harris photo



And Eula paid us out front, no consignment. We loved Eula for this Rip. We appreciate Larry Robin's bookstore in Philly, a white man who promoted black books with his annual Black Writer's Conference.

Back in the Bay, Joe Goncalves operated the New Day Book Store on Divisadero while also publishing the Journal of Black Poetry, Bible of the 60s poetry revolution. Joe, aka Dingane, published more poets than anyone in the world. All the BAM Poets published in the JBP. Of course Black Fire was the Holy Bible of 60s black radical literature.

--cont
Marvin X
10/28/20

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

They Say you from 'Orleans


Marvin X at his Academy of Da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland CA. At his Academy of Da Corner, he has been interviewed by Cecil Brown of Stanford University, a scholar from American University (Marvin cannot remember her name), Dr. Ellen McLarney of Duke University for his chapter in her forthcoming book on Black Muslim Writers in America. Dr. Justin Gifford for his biography of Eldridge Cleaver, Revolution or Death. Dr. Cornel West says, "Marvin X is the African Socrates teaching in the hood."--Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University. Ishmael Reed says, "Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland." Bob Holman says, "He's the USA's Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz!" Amiri Baraka said, "Marvin X has always been in the forefront of African writing. Indeed, he is one of the founders and innovators of the revolutionary school of African writing."

Marvin X speaks
You know a prophet is loved except in his own land. I get no recognition for putting my life on the line to teach at Fresno State University even though the black police said, "When Marvin X came to teach at Fresno State College/University, he made things better for everybody, not just students at FSU. Before he came to FSU, black police officers couldn't patrol the white side of town!"--Sargent Jack Kelley, founder of the Fresno African American Museum.




photo Gene Hazzard



They Say You From 'Orleans
 


They say are you from 'Oleans

I say no no dirty south here

They say chit'lin's

I say no

No chit'lin circuit on my tour

Nigga laugh out this world

No chit'lin circuit on my tour


Cali negro true n true

mama born in central valley

maternal people valley pioneers 

cotton pickers from Arkansas Oklahoma

farmers don't you hear

Came to central valley

busloads to pick cotton

more cotton in valley than mississippi

don't you know

tent cities in fresno

came up cant you see

tent city ain't always

when you don't want to be

families in tent cities

lovers for life

rise up from tents

soon husband wife

children go to school

play pro ball don't you know

strong country boys

represent the pro


Me 

Central Cali nigga

Oaktown too

Central Cali nigga

city country boy through n through

Edison High basketball team

Oaktown too

Prescott Lowell Jr. High

7th Street nigga

true n true

Played basketball New Century Defermery Park

Bill Russell Pointer brothers, Jim Hadnot, Paul Silus, Aiken brothers too 

Made Merritt College team

Mack niggas too tall fa me

Jim Toliver could dunk

guard

dunk like he 6'3''

Toliver hardly 5'6"

me 5'6" too

Toliver

jumped high into a tree

Toliver A.C Scott guards we

Lowell Jr. High

Joe Ellis on team

Warrior's Joe Ellis

what a dream what a dream

I won  free throw contest

9 out of 10

pretty good ugh 

9 of 10 free throw line

got a trophy for ma win

New Century nigga don't sin


Back to broder man

ain't no 'Orleans nigga

ain't from Lake Charles

ain't from Monroe LA like Huey Newton

My podna from Merritt

he like pig shootin'

Ain't from Grambling

Jackson State

Mississippi

Ain't from Texas Southern

down street from daughter's house

Wrote book bout Eldridge Cleaver

three weeks for My Friend the Devil

Funniest book of 2009

Jimmy Garett said

Didn't need no footnotes didn't tell no lies

People said Marvin 

if Cleaver the devil

who are you

People said Marvin if Cleaver the devil

who are you

If you can't figure it out

i might be the devil too!


Dress like you from 'Orleans boy

where you from

be true to me

I might be from the river

Might be from the deep sea

Might be from the forest

might be from the woods

might be from the valley

might be from the hood

Don't matter where I'm from

valley or the sea

I'm a man

M.A.N

Main

Hustler

ain't no pimp

don't wait for mine

hustle sea to sea

See me in the mornin

'Orleans Bourbon Street

might want etouffee for breakfest

bananas french toast

what about eggs n rice

cali nigga you know

daddy from kentucky

rice country

mama central valley

no grits don't ya know

we ate rice breakfast lunch dinner

friends called me Moto

Chinese man don't you know

never saw a nigger eat rice

day and night

no grits

rice butter sugar n cream

daddy kentucky nigger

blue grass n white rice

nothin nice

Mama central valley girl

picked cotton cut grapes

her world

grandfather Murrill

99 when he died

1941

Fresno Bee Newspaper

gave him pride

Bee said respected negro

black and whites alike

What manner of man

Ephraim Murrill

Great grandfather

in his stride

North Carolina to Arkansas to Cali

pioneer was he not

I am his seed

DNA all the way

did not know him

but he knew me everyday

cotton grape fields

Ephraim general of the land

yes I'm his seed

great son of this man.

I stand on his shoulders

my grandpa too

no matter we rescued him drunk El Gato Negro

Grandpa still true.

Was it pain of cotton grape fields made him drink gamble all night

We sat outside El Gato Negro while Uncle Stan got grandpa from gambling drunk fight

We all lucky to be alive

Thank God for today

None of us would be here

if devil had his way.

Thank God he is Mighty

Thank God he is True

Thank God he protects fools and children

like me and you!

--Marvin X

10/21/20