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Film Review: Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck

FilmReview: Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck

Film Review

Patrice Lumumba

A Film by Raoul Peck

Reviewed by Marvin X
© 2002 by Marvin X

Note: We send out this review on the 50th anniversary of independence in the Congo. Lumumba said he was fifty years ahead of

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Parable of Oakland Police Riot

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Parable ofOakland Police Riot

The Oakland Police areplanning to riot. This is the community consensus based on conversationsat the crossroads. They shall be waiting for the crowd to gather infront of City Hall after the verdict i

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Parable of Plato Negro's Republic: Newark, A Case Study

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Parableof Plato Negro's Republic:

Newa

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Plato Negro's Republic and Morality

Sunday, June 27, 2010

PlatoNegro's Republic and Morality

Plato Negro'sRepublic and Morality
There are those who claim wedon't want a nation of saints or holy men and women. For sure, we don'tneed a theocracy, a nation ruled by the religious clergy. Ira

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Parable of Plato Negro's Republic of North American Africans

Saturday, June 26, 2010

For Sister Njere
Aghanee, in memoriam

Parable of Plato Negro's
Republic of North American Africans

Ifyou
are not for yourself, who shall be for you? Those who are for
everybody are often for nobody. For sure, all nations move in thei

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Parable of the General as a Rolling Stone

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Parableof the General as a Rolling Stone

Parable ofthe General as a Rolling Stone

In actionreminiscent of of Harry Truman firing General MacArthur during theKorean war, President Obama relieved General McChrystal
of his dutiesin A

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Parable of a Nigguh

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Parable of a Nigguh

Don’t act like you don’t know what a nigguh is, don’t go there because you know very well what a nigguh is because morethan likely you are the very essence of a nigguh, especially you nigguhswho say don’t say

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I Cannot Hide from the Kora

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Oh, MightyKora

Why do you tear the heart apart
take soulfrom mind
ten thousand years of culture
seeps into a soul lost intime
Oh, Kora
taking heart into time lost, time regained
whatmagic is this, what mystery
sound set centuries ago
no

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Parable of Slow Dance on the Killing Floor

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Parable ofSlow Dance on the Killing Floor

The people werefull of fear at what retribution might be coming to pharaoh since hehad been so mean and evil to the people throughout his empire. He was acruel bone crusher who showed no

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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

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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.

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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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