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Parable of Slow Dance on the Killing Floor

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Parable of Oil and White Supremacy

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Parable ofOil and White Supremacy




White supremacyis America's number one addiction, not oil, which is merely a byproductof white supremacy addiction, the malady that afflicts America like noother. To speak of oil as the addicti

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James Baldwin in San Francisco--Take This Hammer

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

JamesBaldwin in San Francisco-[-Take This Hammer

Atthe end of April last year, SF State posted James Baldwin's Take
This Hammer online (https://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/187041).

> KQED's film unit follows poet and activist JamesBaldwi

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Parable of the Solution

Monday, June 14, 2010

Parable ofthe Solution



DuBois said how does it feelto be a problem, but Plato Negro says how does it feel to be thesolution? And yet one is totally ignored, silenced, muffled like a wilddog. But within his bowels, the North Americ

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Parable of Da Corner

Parable of DaCorner

WAKE UP EVERYBODY - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES (1975)

Plato Negro asks conscious teachers to follow his example by going to the street cornersof their communities and sharing with youth and adults, bydisseminating knowledge and

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Poem: If You're Still the Same Afterwards by Kalamu ya salaam

POEM: IF YOU'RE STILL THE SAME AFTERWARDS

photo by Alex Lear

 

IF YOU'RE STILL THE SAME AFTERWARDS

IT WASN'T LOVE

(to nia, thanx for making me better)

 

 

to say

"i am touc

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This Is What's In Store For The US

                                                      From the Ramparts
                                                  Junious Ricardo Stanton
                                           This Is What’s In Store For the USA

“ATHENS--The Greek governmen

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Parable of Lord Have Mercy

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Parable ofLord Have Mercy

A beggar came to Plato Negro askingfor change to get something to eat. Plato Negro knew the man to betalented so he denied the request, even though he had at least a hundreddollars in his pocket, includ

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Parable of Broken systems, broken minds

Parable ofBroken Systems, Broken Minds




The oil contaminating theGulf is but the most recent example of man's mind failing him as aresult of greed. Anyone who believes the white man knows what he isdoing in the world is a triple damn fool. This man is

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A Poem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

APoem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

The following poem by Kalamu ya Salaam honors Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad(RIP), a warrior queen who killed her rapist in Georgia before moving toOakland where she worked with the Uhuru Movement, Marvin X,

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New Panthers Condemn Rogue Newark Cop’s Return To ‘Work’

 

         

[June 9, 2010] The New Black Panther Party wholly condemns the recent decision to allow Det.Angel Pared, the officer captured on videotape summarily beating and abusing 15 year Travis Rattray on March 24^th, to return to work.

          P

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Parable of Jazz

Parable of Jazz






Jazz saved me
this night
jazz
saved me
I was ready to go
jazz
held my arm
reached into my soul
saved me.
--mx

He was so happy to be born a North American African. A little sad he wasn't born in New Orleans, but happy just the same to claim his

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Parable of Jazz

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Parable of Jazz

Parable of Jazz
Jazz saved me
this night
jazz
saved me
I was ready to go
jazz
held my arm
reached into my soul
saved me.
--mx

He was so happy to be born a North American African. A little sad he wasn't born in New Orleans, b

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Parable of Helen Thomas

Monday, June 7, 2010

Parableof Helen Thomas

Parable of
HelenThomas

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Parable of Parental Partiality

Surviving children Amira, Muhammida and Nefertiti, also grandson Jah Amiel (Amira's son, other grandchildren include Kevin, James, Jazmin, Jordan and Mahadevi).
Deceased Darrel/Abdul (RIP). Marvin K, oldest son.


Parable of Parental Partiality


A woman

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Parable of the Gaza Concentration Camp

Friday, June 4, 2010

Parableofthe Gaza Concentration Camp

The Jews learnednothing from the Nazi genocide, or perhaps they learned everything sincethe Zionist occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is sealed tight, aland of closed borders, check points, w

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Parable of Wannabe Actor, Part II

Parable ofthe Wannabe Actor, Part Two
A great actor once said,and it may have been Sir Lawrence Oliver, "The best part of theatre is
getting drunk after the show." I agree totally with him. I would never
get drunk before the show or during the show (so

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Parable of Women Without Men

Parable of Women Without Men


There was war in the land, for centuries war in the land. The men were bred for labor, sperm donations, and death. The women were booty, the spoils of war. A classical situation, nothing unique, racist, call it the art of

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Palestine

PALESTINE 

by Marvin X

(El Muhajir)

 

I am not an Arab, I am not a Jew

Abraham is not my father, Palestine is not my home

But I would fight any man

Who kicked me out of my house

To dwell in a tent

I would fight

To the ends of the earth

Someone who said to me

I w

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Parable of Trinkets & Gadgets

Monday, May 31, 2010

Parable ofTrinkets & Gadgets

On the roadside a man wasselling trinkets and gadgets of every kind, rocks, shells, skins,electronic equipment, giant screen televisions, Ipads, Ipods,blackberries, redberries,even bodies and the souls

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