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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

Started by Marvin X in Politics

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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

Started by Marvin X in Topical Issues

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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

Started by Marvin X in Politics

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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

Started by Marvin X in Education

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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

Started by Marvin X in Topical Issues

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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

Started by Marvin X in Politics

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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

Started by Marvin X in Politics

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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

Started by Marvin X in Relationships

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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

Started by Marvin X in Education

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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

Started by Marvin X in Politics

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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

Started by Marvin X in Relationships

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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,

Started by Marvin X in Education

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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

Started by Marvin X in Education

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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

Started by Marvin X in Topical Issues

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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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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,

Monday, June 7, 2010

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