Sunday, January 24, 2021

Parable of the milkshake


Parable of the Milkshake


In Memory of Robert Bey

A Philly Negro Supreme
Lost his mind in the US military




In Philly they have a drink in the hood called The Milkshake, aka The Marvin X. In bars it might be known as a Separator, i.e., Brandy and Irish Cream over rocks. In North Philly and Germantown, it's called the Marvin X, drank from a canning jar filled with rocks. 

From coast to coast, whether in a bar or in the hood, Marvin X warns his friends that his favorite drink is not a milkshake. Some macho men are hesitant because it is sweet, thus a bitch drink in their macho minds, but after the Marvin X hits their ass, they go into the Zone, ah, yes, The Separator separates mind from body. If you don't want your mind separated from your body don't fuck with the Marvin X drink!

One mad Crazy nigga in North Philly  filled his canning jar with the Marvin X, almost emptying the fifth of Hennessy. Marvin X looked at the Philly nigga but said nothing since the Philly Nigga had a 9 millimeter on the table beside his drink.

To himself Marvin X said Drink nigga drink, just don't put your hand on the 9 millimeter, crazy ass Philly cheese steak eating nigga.
--MARVIN X
1/23/21

Death of a Philadelphia Negro

 Death of a Philadelphia Negro


My buddy told me

Death of the Philadelphia Negro


Write a poem bout a Negro

Who wants to die

Live for what

I ain't doing nothing

You doing something

You got projects

I ain't doing shit

Blood clots in my legs

They want to cut

Can't cut

Heart 30%

What about stints in my legs

Doc say

How long will I live

Doc say it's debatable

Depends on you

Can't operate on legs

Heart too weak

What you want to do

I want some liquor and dope

Anything to kill pain in my legs

Doc say you in pretty bad shape

Buddy

One leg is black

May need to cut

How long will I live

Doc don't know

Depends

What you want to do

I'm ready to go

Ain't doing nothing

Doc say you had heart attacks 

I ain't felt no heart attack

Don't matter you had 'em

Well so what doc

I'm ready to go home

Eat some mushrooms and

Float like Santa Claus

Join Sun Ra on Jupiter

Ain't nothing happening here

I ain't doing nothing

Why stay

All my friends gone

You bout one or two friends Left buddy tell me

My kids doing they thing

Ain't worried bout me

Worried bout they cars

Mustang BMW Bentley

Don't give a fuck bout me

I'm dead man walking

Let me get in the shower

Put on my clothes jewelry

Go to poker party

8 o'clock

House party

Niggas got everything

Hennessy blunts

Cocaine all over card table

Niggas feeling good

Ain't wearing no stupid ass masks

Let me get to the party

Last Poet's right

Niggas go party bullshit

Party bullshit.


It's strange though

When you know 

death is knocking 

on your door

You know you got to open door

Let death come in

Sit down at table

But death ain't playing poker!

--MARVIN X

1/21/21






Friday, January 22, 2021

Parable of the blind man


 
Parable of the blind man


Blind man rather be dead than blind

Say he cursed Special Forces Vet

Crawling around jungle

Killing Viet Kong 

usa running dog

said anybody who goes into military and kills 

comes home crazy.

Don't care about money in bank

Just want to die

Was biochemist

Made healing herb potions

Now gotta heal thyself

Community Angel

Used to sit at my table

Academy of Da Corner

Downtown Oakland

Pay for books if woman know she Queen of universe

She had to know who she was

Didn't pay for man books

He wasn't blind then

He was grumpy bitter

Grew up in Brooklyn

Didn't know blackness

Til he met Hurriyah and Marvin X

We love blind man

He lost love of self

Want to kill self

They took him to hospital

Rest home

Let apartment go

Archives books tapes computer

Trashed

Say he on another level now

Don't need that shit

I tell him come sit with me

Academy of Da Corner Lakeshore

He sits

Talks with young man with detail car service

Blind man ask if he knew my poem

Black History is world history

He say no

Blind man jam me

Why he don't have your poem

Out of print

You better get him your poem

I say Google it

He Google my reading

Blind man happy

Ethiopian come by

Blind man ask why

Ethiopian kill Ethiopian

Tribes

Ethiopian say they ignut

Gotta come up from ignut

White Native American come by

Blind man say you white man

White Man say his mama black native American

Grew up on reservation

Cardboard shoes

With his mama had to sit

Back of bus

Drink at Black water fountain

By himself he drink at White fountain

Confused child

Blind man stopped hating

White Native American

I take him home

His care provider help him from car

He tells her

I hate to say it but

I enjoyed myself today.

Ache'

Can't make the blind man see

Can make him live!

--MARVIN X

1/22/21




 https://vimeo.com/120866516


Marvin X You don't know me

 https://vimeo.com/120866516


Thursday, January 21, 2021

Part 3 final final The wild crazy ride of the marvin x experience

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Includes Amiri Baraka and Marvin X at the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe NM; Marvin X 
reading at Yoshi's San Francisco; Marvin X at the Berkeley Black Repertory Group 
Theater, accompanied by percussionists Tacuma King and Kelly Nitoto, harpist vocalist 
Destiny Muhammad, violinist Tarika Lewis, dancer Raynetta Rayzetta RIP, and Suzzette Celeste, 
words of inspiration and Marvin X reading Amiri Baraka's poem Dope at the Malcolm X Jazz/Art Festival, Oakland CA, 2015, accompanied by musicians David Murray and Earle Davis.

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Who has the truth

 


5


Who has the truth

I want the truth
So help me God
The whole truth
Not his truth her truth
Black truth white truth
Jewish truth Muslim truth
Christian truth
Church of God in Christ truth
Buddha truth
Yoruba truth
Vudoo truth
Hebrew Jah truth
Ignut rapper truth
Hip Hop 5% truth
Elijah truth
Noble Drew Ali truth
Garvey truth
Father Divine truth
Rev Ike truth
Rev Jim Jones truth
Hillary Clinton truth
Trump truth
Biden Harris truth
Communist Socialist Capitalist truth
Atheist truth
Pimp truth
Ho' truth
Dope fiend truth
Lesbian gay transexual trysexual truth
Hennessy blunt smoker truth
Adulterer fornicator truth
I want the whole truth
So help me God.
--MARVIN X
1/10/21
Revised from Marvin X, Jet Magazine, cerca 1975

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Revised Part Three, Segment A of the Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience




Shani Baraka and her lover Ray Ray

Parable of talking with the dead in the Necropolis

 Parable of talking with the dead in the necropolis


Actress Cat Brooks
photo Adam Turner


Poet Marvin X
photo Adam Turner

He walked into the necropolis, city of the dead, (necro, according to Grimm's law, the consonants c,k and g are interchangeable or equal, thus necro and negro mean the same, something dead). 

He tried to hold their hand but it was limp without life so he dropped their hand and it fell to their side, hanging like an appendage of sorrow, sad its fake had been to do nothing throughout its existence as part of the necro's body as it circumnavigated the necropolis. The arms waved but to no purpose for the other necros could not respond in kind since they were dead as well. Their spirits had been sucked from them long ago by the vampire who walked among them smiling as their friend but in truth he was the blood sucker of the poor who ate their children for breakfast lunch and dinner. 

Mothers and fathers wondered why their children were lifeless, their only desire was to be on the machine the vampire provided them to join the robot world of the creatures on the screen before them, where they played games of murder and slaughter of the enemy. When the game ended the vampire laughed through the screen at the children he devoured with a vibration while their parents stood in wonder at their children who were no longer their children. Their children had no longer the desire to kiss their mother and father but only looked at them in despair because the parents had not fully joined them in the vampire games. 

Parents wondered how they could break the spell of the vampire. Parents withdrew their children from the public schools when they realized the schools were making their children dope fiends of the low information vibration. Their children came home to get stuck on the vampire games of murder and parents were in shock their child was no longer their child but some agent of the vampire who sucked their blood and brain cells into his wretched mouth for breakfast lunch and dinner.
--Marvin X
1/2/21

Welcome 2021

 Welcome to 2021


Welcome to all of you who survived 2020, one of the most wretched years in the history of mankind, beginning with germ warfare, Covid19, a long planned germ agent of the Globalists and the new boys on the block, the Chinese Communists. The Europeans and the European Americans (Left and Right, Democrats and Republicans) thought they could either associate themselves economically with the Chinese Communists or, in the mind of white nationalist President Donald Trump, make them submit to fair trade instead of the free trade agreement that the Chinese have taken full advantage of. Abysmally ignorant of the ten thousand year cultural history of China, Trump apparently thought he could make a fair trade deal with the Chinese, but with their Art of War political and military strategy, China has obviously out thought the American cultural savages by passing a hard coup military engagement with the Americans, instead instituted a soft coup by utilizing germ warfare with Covid19 in harmony with the globalists who have long sought the New World Order even before they assisted Mao and the 1949 revolution. You do understand some people work both sides of the fence, i.e., gun sellers sell to all sides, what difference does it make to them--it's a money thang, not a moral or political thang.

Having assisted Mao, the globalists figured they could eventually win them to the capitalist economic notion but the long cultural history of the Chinese gave them the psychological advantage to patiently convince their mostly western European globalist sycophants to surrender their capitalist model for the Chinese model of economic synchronization, i.e., a mixed economic model of capitalism and communism. The greedy capitalist blood suckers of the poor were eager to join the Chinese in their model of wage slavery. The globalist bloodsuckers were/are multi-cultural in economic agreements with the Chinese, thus Africans are rapidly selling out the Motherland to China, including the sale of land and, most importantly, precious metals, in exchange for cheap made in china goods, including imitation African art and crafts such as Kenti cloth and mud cloth, thus depressing the economics of African artists and craftsmen and women. 

North American African entrepreneurs, athletes, rappers and other entertainers are eager and without any moral sensibility to have their gear Made in China, although let it be known that Made in China is a misnomer because 40% of the goods made in China are made in conjunction with European, American, Asian, African and Latin corporations, thus the China are not the sole devils in this economic quagmire that involves the slave labor of Muslim Chinese, Tibetan Buddhists and other ethnic and political dissidents to the Chinese Communist model.
We understand that socalled clothing for the global fashion industry are subcontracted by China to North Korean slave factories. What a wonderful world as we enter 2021.

For North American Africans, the question is not what the Chinese, Globalists and/or white nationalists are doing but what is our Black Agenda for the 50 million descendants of African victims of the American slave system (Ed Howard term)? Shall we continue as sycophants of the Democratic party--thank God in the last election many North American Africans dismembered their umbilical cord with the Demon-cratic Party to vote for Donald Trump. Of course, in my political thinking, the choice in America is between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

I repeat, what is the Black Agenda? Surely it is not news to us except those on the lowest level of the low information vibration that the germ warfare agent Covid 19 is affecting North American Africans who are perennially sufferers of America's health disparities and inequities.


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

In my 1968 interview with James Baldwin at his New York apartment, he said our condition proves America does not believe in Christianity, democracy or anything else relating to our freedom, justice and equality. Alas, our arrival on these shores was a journey in genocide, then we joined the Native Americans in their drama of genocide. As per disease, see the classic but little known study by sociologist Dr. E. Franklin Frazier's Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World: "The diseases of the Europeans were more devastating that their guns upon the native peoples throughout the Americas." In 2021, we can repeat his words: The toxic environment North American Africans are forced to suffer are more damaging that, yes, the guns and bullets he provides us to kill ourselves in suicides and homicides. FYI, many suicides are in fact homicides because the person was too cowardly to kill himself/herself so they put themselves in a position for someone else to kill them, especially the police!

Our agenda has always been to stay or go? Study the 19th Century Black Convention Movement on down to the Civil Rights and Black Power Conferences of the 1960s. Agenda: Civil Rights, i.e., integration or Black Power, separation, including land and sovereignty. 

As we enter 2021, we see the English have decided to politically separate from their European brothers in the European Union. North American African, mostly young people, have created Blaxit, the modern version of the Return to African Movement our ancestors have called for, most often associated with Marcus Garvey although the called was part of the agenda debated throughout the 19th century. 

Blaxit has been answered by the Hip Hop generation and their elders, especially in Ghana where the five thousand North American Africans in Accra are, yes, causing gentrification with their education and standard of living, my daughter, Muhammida El Muhajir, among the leaders of the Blaxit Movement. So the question remains and shall persist until we arrive at consensus that may ultimately require a plebiscite or vote of the people as with Brexit in England. For sure, we have more issues with America than the English have with the European Union.

In a few days, we shall see if the time has come for North American Africans to advance the call of Blaxit or some form of sovereignty in several states for reparations due, especially if the second civil war begins with the disputed election of Biden's 3.0 Obama regime or shall we endure Donald Trump 2.0 blatant white nationalism. As per a Biden-Obama 3.0 or Trump 2.0, I suggest Blaxit 1.0, we return to the Motherland or stake our claim to five states or more on this land as we enter the second civil war with the resultant Balkanization of the United States of America into ethnic enclaves. For sure, the whites shall claim their part, along with La Raza La Raza La Raza, and the Asians and of course Native Americans. Shall the North American Africans not claim their share of the American pie or shall they cling to their white master's coat-tail and cast their fate to this ass blowing in the wind!
--Marvin X/El Muhajir
1/2/21

P.S. I am in production of the video documentary The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience, produced and edited by Marvin X and Ken Johnson, a tentative 10-20 Part series on the life and times of Marvin X. Please consider a generous donation to my GoFundMe account to make this project happen. https://gofund.me/d4ab535f



We have completed drafts of Parts 1-3 that you may view at www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

Thanks to all my friends and supporters throughout the six decades of my involvement in the black arts and liberation movement. We give praise and honor to all the ancestors and all the unacknowledged workers and veterans, especially those suffering physical and mental disabilities as a result of America's domestic war against those true patriots who fought in the name of the US Constitution and for civil and human rights. MX

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Rough Draft, Parts 1-3, Video/audio documentary: The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience



Video/audio documentary--Rough Draft, Parts One, Two and Three: 
The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience

Executive Producer Marvin X
Executive Editor Ken Johnson

A Black Bird Production

Copyright (c) 2021 by Marvin X/El Muhajir

Comments 

"In his powerlessness and victimization, with nothing left to lean on, the black man is likely to mount the seesaw, if not the roller coaster of racial psycho-social dependency and messianic religiosity...on the one hand and the individual chemical dependent on the other. Marvin deconstructs both. In the bottomless caverns of addiction in any form, there seems no amount of religiosity, coke, crack, alcohol or sex sufficient to sedate the social angst and shattered cultural strivings."
--Dr. Nathan Hare, from Introduction, Somethin' Proper, the Autobiography of Marvin X, Black Bird Press, 1998

"Marvin reaches in and pulls from a life lived hard, deep, wide, high and low, i.e., a sacrifice in blood! At the root of sacrifice is sacred, which is of God and for God. He has lived and examined lives of the proverbial ten thousand black men and women. He gives us the truth of that experience, lived and examined."
--Fahizah Alim, Editor Emeritus, Sacramento Bee

"He is a deep sea diver who rarely comes up for air. And when he does, it is only for a moment!"

--Aishah Kokomon

"Courageous and outrageous, he walked through the muck and mire of hell but came out clean as white fish and black as coal!"

--James W. Sweeney RIP

"In terms of being modernist and innovative, he's centuries ahead of anybody I know!"
--Dennis Leroy Moore, filmmaker, Brecht Forum, New York City

Part One


Part Two


Part Three

Dear Friends,

Please consider a generous donation for this project. Donate to my GoFundMe campaign:

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Any amount will be appreciated, $5.00 to $5,000. Our goal is $50,000.00.

Sincerely,

Marvin X, Executive Producer

Ken Johnson, Executive Editor




A Black Bird Production

Information: 510-575-7148

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photoart Gene Hazzard (c)


Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The New Black Man

 In A Special Edition of BBPNR We Shall Deconstruct The New Black Man

Below is James Rhode, 23, Dartmouth graduate, currently studying law at LSU



Thursday, December 3, 2020

Toward a Dialectical Deconstruction of Police--Did I miss the mark? Your comments welcome

Maestro Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra at the Malcolm X

Jazz/Art Festival, Oakland, 2014

photo collage Adam Turner


Of course it is a gross generalization to say all police are pigs. Phenomena has contradictions or let us say no phenomena is without a positive and negative component, a male and female, yen and yang energy. Human beings can be good as well as evil. Herbs can be therapeutic and also toxic. Socrates chose to drink the poison herb Hemlock to stand firm for truth, willing to die for truth. So truth is good for some, death for others. How many prophets have given their lives for truth, thus truth was good and bad, for truth is often a toxin when presented to kings, queens, politicians, preachers, teachers whose agenda are lies. Alas, when I taught English at the University of Nevada, Reno and said to the students my agenda was truth, they were aghast, "Teach, what do you mean by truth? We have no knowledge of truth."

As per Black people, one of my mostly white students said the only truth she knew about blacks was that her parents (and her father was a professor at UNR) taught her "Niggers are bad news." Once she began dating the black athletes, she no longer accepted the truth of her parents. She discovered sex with the black athletes was very good news! So the adage says one man's poison is another man's treat. 


Imagine the fallacy of racial myths such as the one above taught by the parents of my student. The dialectical confusion can be overwhelming thus transcending a synthesis, causing the student to become lost in a conundrum unresolvable. 

So, as per police as pigs, we know it is faulty logic is presume or declare all police are pigs since we know there are good pigs and bad pigs. I can give antidotal evidence of the good pig. I draw from the time I boarded the Amtrak train to the Central Valley of California and a black Oakland Police officer came on behind me and came directly to my seat and said loudly, "I see we have a celebrity on board this morning. Have a nice trip, Mr. Celebrity!" and he continued on his way. I wanted to find out how he knew who I was but since I was "riding dirty" I said nothing but a few weeks later  when I bought a ticket for another trip to the valley, the Amtrak clerk, a friend of mine, informed me the officer I described to him was a conscious black policeman and he did indeed know who I was, and should not consider him the enemy.

Further, a few months after the above incident, I was on an east coast book tour that began at Duke University, North Carolina, then up the coast to Philly, Newark and New York. The citizens of Newark blew my mind with the consensus that for the first time in their lives they did not feel negative pressure from the police as a result of Mayor Ras Baraka's administration that is now in its second term without any police murder under the color of law. Mayor Baraka ordered the police to walk the hood and greet the people with smiles. My dear friend, Amina Baraka, mother of the Mayor and his brother who is Chief of Staff, said she didn't know how to act with police walking through the hood smiling! FYI, after the George Floyd murder under the color of law, Newark NJ did not explode with protests and looting. There was no need, Mayor Baraka has issued his orders and also gave the gang bangers employment as security officers and gave them the opportunity for employment for the first time in their lives. For some of the brothers it was the first time they'd received a paycheck. 

Ironically, the Newark story has not made the news but the fake media narrative is that pigs will be pigs and will never serve and protect the people. Clearly, Mayor Baraka and his Chief of Staff, Amiri Baraka, Jr., have defied the myth that police are totally uncontrollable and must be abolished. In my interview with the Mayor and his brother, aka, Middy, Middy said, "My brother has an elected position, I do not. If the police don't act right, I can chop heads!" Why is the Newark model not emulated throughout this land? We think there are people who rather dwell on problems not solutions. Problems often pay more money than solutions. Consider this last antidote of a correctional officer at Alameda County Jail here in Oakland who supposedly told a departing inmate, "Keep coming back. I got myself a yacht, now I want to get one for my son, so I want you niggers to keep coming back!"

Do you think this officer wants problems or solutions? And consider this: the California Correctional Officers Union is the most powerful union in California. Do you suppose the union wants problems or solutions? After all, if crime was solved they would be unemployed, right? 

Why do many question the structural and systemic nature of racism and white supremacy. The police and other institutions, including businesses and academia, along with high tech and the military, are guilty of pervasive racism that is so problematic it will take not decades but centuries to extricate and, yes, to adjudicate especially as per equity and justice. The timeline for economic equity is two hundred and forty years for blacks to equal whites in wealth. 

In our good pig, bad pig paradigm, perhaps if we say capitalism is the blood sucker of the poor and must therefore be abolished and the police are the guardian of the capitalist blood suckers of the poor, then maybe the entire system must be destroyed, for sure, can there be a good blood sucker of the poor or only bad ones? We think there are no good bloodsuckers of the poor, no capitalist who want to exist without wage slaves and the cheapest price for materials of production. 

Have I contradicted myself with talk of good cops? Reality begs us to consider the Newark Model, thus there is a semblance of hope, yet when we extend such hope to other capitalist institutions, e.g., the educational institutions, we see our hope shattered because we know in the deep structure of such institutions is the undergirding motivation of capitalist greed with the corresponding necessity to perpetuate the world of make believe as delineated in Dr. Frazier's classic Black Bourgeoisie. Recall the absence of truth is the minds of my English students at the University of Nevada, Reno. Yet, they possessed the mythic "truth" that blacks are bad news!

Should we dismiss talk of dialectics, paradigms, structural and systemic conundrums and strike the bull's jugular vain to announce we are trying to unravel a toxic notion so pervasive in the cultural and economic matrix that we are doomed to settle for a few more centuries to reach the final solution to the Negro Problem. 

I have written before that W.E.B. DuBois was wrong when he asked how does it feel to be real estate? As a son of parents who were real estate brokers, I do know the difference between real estate (land, buildings) and chattel real
(personal property) that defined North American Africans. One may say what difference does it make whether we are real estate or chattel real, i.e., personal property? Well, we know there are those of us who want and do challenge our status purely on legal terms. Are we real estate, chattel or sovereign? 

If we are sovereign, our rights transcend the US constitution, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments. After all, we had no vote in the matter of morphing from chattel slaves to wage slaves. In this dialectic, we advanced from bad slaves to good slaves, yet slaves none the less. President Donald Trump declared he advanced us to wage slavery that made us and America great again since under his regime we gained more employment than we've enjoyed since slavery.
I ask President Trump to give us the stats on wages, especially in the dirty south where many of us work three minimum wage jobs to survive.

Finally, shall this quagmire be resolved peacefully or violently? For sure, the essential question is not wages but land! Aw, yes, those undelivered 40 acres and mules that were aborted after the assassination of President Lincoln.

If we came here for labor and after our labor under the sun, yet find ourselves lost and turned out on the way to Granny's house (Whispers), and our children question why they have no inheritance like "other Americans", how can we answer them except to say we have been hoodwinked and bamboozled and ask their apology as my dear elder poet/revolutionary Askia Toure asked students during his lecture at University of California, Merced. 

I challenged Elder Toure' by saying our liberation was aborted by the overwhelming military power of the State, i.e., police, national guard, army, navy, marines, c.i.a., f.b.i, snitches, agent provocateurs, uncle toms, the ignut and mentally ill, not to dismiss our mistakes as revolutionaries that included drug, alcohol and sexual abuse of our women comrades in revolution.  


Surely, we now understand the contradictions in the dialectics of our liberation. We were thus good revolutionaries and bad, we had foibles and critical character flaws Shakespeare described in his classic tragedies. 

We suggest the coming generation study the writings of Cheikh Anta Diop on the North Cradle and Southern Cradle and the matter of comedy and tragedy. Of course the prototypical drama is the Kemetic resurrection of Osiris and Isis that symbolized the annual ebb and flow of the Nile or Hapi River, thus in this primordial African drama no tragedy exists, only comedy as symbolized in the annual resurrection of the Nile/Hapi River concomitant with the  Osiris, god of resurrection. See Kersey Graves, The Sixteen Crucified Saviors Before Christ, also Man, God, Civilization, John G. Jackson; Dr. Ben, African Origin of the Major World Religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam. 

Resurrection is the essential myth/ritual of African lives,  and shall be for generations to come.  The resurrection myth/ritual synchronizes us with the ebb and flow of nature that is not gloom and doom but as Frankie Beverly said Sunshine, Rain, Joy Pain. If you must, call our essential narrative How I Got Ovah, the essential theme in the totality of our literature, i.e., how we survived and went on to thrive under the worse circumstances afforded any human beings on the planet earth. Thus we shall never accept defeat, never shall we succumb to a modicum of the slavery paradigm, not for a nano second. Elder Ed Howard gave a linguistic upgrade when he said, "We are not African slaves, we are African victims of the American slave system." Ancestor James Baldwin told me in my 1968 interview at his New York apartment, "Nothing else happened here but us, nothing else. For a black father to raise a black son under these circumstances is a miracle, but we did it generation after generation."

We must teach our children their heritage is national liberation and independence in the grandest manner of Haiti, total independence, no matter the concomitant sufferings down to this moment. We only know one thing about Haiti and ourselves: one day we shall be free. 
Just know this: the enemy will not tell you when you are winning. Remember the Congo, they only released Lumumba moments before Belgium submitted to an independent Congo although the struggle continues. Lumumba told us before his assassination by Tshombe and Mobutu at the request of the West, it would take fifty years for the Congo to be free. We yet await that moment throughout Africa, Middle East and the Americas. Tragedy is not our dialectic, only freedom in all its vicissitudes. 
--Marvin X
12/3/20

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

For farmers everywhere, India to Nigeria


Marvin X, University of Chicago, 2015

photo Burrell Sunrise
 


For Farmers Everywhere, India to Nigeria


"The king sold farmers to the ghost!"--Amiri Baraka

Ten thousand farmer suicides
India free market capitalism
No fair trade
Corporate slaves wanted
American way of death
We know the deal
No little man farms
Can little man survive big man
"The king sold the farmer to the ghost!" AB said
Politician Kings
Never touch dirt
Different dirt Kings love
Dirty deals in dark
Let farmers starve
Corporate food good for you
GMO seeds better for land
Let little farmers learn to stand
Don't fight big man
Never win
Guns back corporate Kings
And the ghost too
Little farmers where are you
Stick together your only hope
Fair trade or no trade
Free trade no trade
We grow the land
We sweat sun rain
Hands tough with pain
We up with sun
grow food til day is done
No deal with ghosts
Dear king politician
Let farmers farm
Save revolution.

II

Rice farmers Nigeria
slaughtered boku haram
savage islam
desecrate tombs of saints
burn african islam
Timbuktu university when europe in dark ages
only ignorant destroy knowledge
kill rice farmers for sectarian madness
Post Qaddafi Obama Clinton
What difference does it make she said
after us ambassador dead
arab spring she and obama spread
boku haram springs from Libya south
Tunisia man burns himself in freedom immolation 
Egypt routes Mubarak regime 
thousands before tanks Tahrir Square
muslim brotherhood win then lose
cliche cliche
more things change more stay same
back to army rule
west succumbs in silence
cry democracy vanish in desert wind
the west will guide then desert you
a whore in the night
on to Syria 
more destruction for pseudo freedom democracy
axis of evil working for what side
who is good who is evil in politics of global
we heard it said know when armies close to Jerusalem
the end is near
O, Syria 
Paul fell on road to Damascus
Who shall fall this time
all the armies are near
players in place
Russia
Persia
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Israel Gulf states
Armageddon is here
even Ottoman empire wants to play
Persia wants Tigris and Euphrates to Mediterranean
Israel wants it all
No matter gaza concentration camps 
Hamas will never disarm
like 200,000 Africans in American Civil War
Never will Hezbollah lay down guns for Zionist domination
Qur'an say slaughter in better than persecution
let us die than be slaves to those who learned nothing from Hitler madness we see
to model his works to repeat his myths
what wisdom is this what madness 
do not let myths destroy middle east
so many myths sects cults regimes tribes kings 
where is justice peace love happiness
freedom of women youth children who only want to grow 
make better world than parents caught in lies that bleed nations to the core


 
II 
Back to Nigeria
senseless murder haram
death of innocent haram
boku haram no islam
what muslims worship death of innocent
what qur'an speaks such madness
what hadith sharia
show me the texts
no matter
no ignorance must prevail
only justice equality freedom
adl musawa hurriyah
kill woman for adultery not men
this justice
madness to me
she gave up pussy 
he gave up dick
chop both heads off 
seems fair to me
adl musawa

O Nigerial rice farmers
tilling soil
what sura ayat did you violate
Speak to me you murderers in the name of Allah
not my Allah nor Muhammad's
no prophets no holy books
books of some evil imam in tent with little boys
debauchery not sunna hadith sharia
you hide truth while you know

hatha ya'um jahiliya
jahiliya la islam
jahiliya haram
Muhammad said Iqra bissmillahi
read recite in the name of Allah
seek knowledge from Spain to China
La islam boku haram
Shaytani islam
la sunni shia sufi noi
murder of innocent no sirata al mustaqim
hadtha sirata shaytan

We believe in truth
we die for truth
life and death for Allah truth
no imam truth
his truth her truth
the truth 
Al Haqq!

Let farmers farm
let rice grow 
let people be fed

Let India farmers enjoy fair trade
no free trade slavery
--Marvin X
1/12/20