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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

Started by TheBlackList in Topical Issues

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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

Started by Marvin X in Education

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Parable of Helen Thomas

Monday, June 7, 2010

Parableof Helen Thomas

Parable of
HelenThomas

The comments of Helen Thomas were sound, sane and intelligent. After two hundred years the ChristianCrusaders were forced to depart the Holy Land by Saladin, so we expectthe Jews who are

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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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Memorial Day

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day

Iam a veteran
Not of foreign battlefields
Like my father in worldwar one
My uncles in world war two
And Korea
my friends fromVietnam
And Congo “police action”
But veteran none the less
Exiledand jailed because I refused
To visi

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Lovers of War From the Ramparts Junious Ricardo Stanton Lovers of War “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowsh

   From the Ramparts
                 Junious Ricardo Stanton
                         Lovers of War

   “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States

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Parable of the Negro as Terrorist

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Parable ofthe Negro as Terrorist

In the end the Negro willbe the terrorist!
--Amiri Baraka

American Muslim terroristsare recruited in US prisons.
--Charles Colson, Christian PrisonMinistries

Terrorism is the consequence of political

Started by Marvin X in Topical Issues

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Parable of I Shot the Sheriff

Parable of I Shot theSheriff

Jamaica is caught up in the drama of drugs,guns and politics, much like Mexico and America, the ultimatedestination for drugs and the transport point of guns that is nota"drug war" but the every day, business as usual filt

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Marvin X as the Father of Muslim American Literature

Teaching Diaspora Literature:

Muslim American Literature as an Emerging Field

Marvin X is too extreme for many, but I like strong voices even if I don’t agree with everything they say.--Mohja Kahf

by Mohja Kahf

Mohja Kahf (Comparative Literature, Univers

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Remembering Malcolm

                                                     From The Ramparts
                   Junious Ricardo Stanton
                                                   Remembering Malcolm

   “There is no better (teacher) than

Started by Junious Ricardo Stanton in Topical Issues

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The New Look of Public Education - Last Hired no longer First Fired. Why?

Written by Phyllis Murray, BX, NY UFT Chapter Leader

Article submitted by Sis. Iman Hameen, former UFT Chapter Leader and

veteran educator, with her permission.

Why is the age old tradition of “Last Hired, First Fired” being challenged today? It

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Parable of Lord Have Mercy

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Parable of Broken systems, broken minds

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,

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

Parable of Jazz

Parable of Jazz

Parable of Helen Thomas

Monday, June 7, 2010

Parableof Helen Thomas

Parable of Parental Partiality

Parable of the Gaza Concentration Camp

Friday, June 4, 2010

Parable of Wannabe Actor, Part II

Parable of Women Without Men

Palestine

Parable of Trinkets & Gadgets

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day

Monday, May 31, 2010

Lovers of War From the Ramparts Junious Ricardo Stanton Lovers of War “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowsh

Parable of the Negro as Terrorist

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Parable of I Shot the Sheriff

Marvin X as the Father of Muslim American Literature

Remembering Malcolm

The New Look of Public Education - Last Hired no longer First Fired. Why?

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