Dr. M's Revolution on the Rocks East Coast Book Tour

stock-photo-alcohol-on-the-rocks-one-glass-61014775.jpgAt the suggestion of international event planner, Muhammida El Muhajir, coordinator of the east coast leg of Marvin X's national book tour, this phase is entitled Revolution on the Rocks, with the focus on night clubs as well as colleges and universities. He is not excluding addressing youth in academia as he was at University of Houston and Texas Southern, and will participate at Howard University's Black Power to Hip Hop Conference, November 2-4, and may speak at Morgan State University, Baltimore, late October.

Marvin X says the college and university venues are fine, but he prefers nightclubs and other venues where he can have complete freedom of speech and not forced to talk academic gobblely gook.

"I don't like talking in a language our people can't understand. As we decolonize the English language for our needs, we must speak very straight and plain so we can be clearly understood. I am speaking about the psycholinguistic crisis of the North American. This is a very serious matter because we have no linguistic consensus. Attend any conference and see what happens when the resolutions are discussed. No one can agree on terms. Sometimes the meeting or conference cannot conclude because persons cannot agree on language. This happens in personal relations as well: partners cannot agree and sometimes violence occurs because of different interpretations of words said, even words of love.

At least in a club, and the comic shows are the best example, there is a consensus on terms said, even if the audience might be slightly mind altered with alcohol. Alcohol can be a dangerous mix when one is talking truth but I can accept alcohol above the academic setting and uttering academic abstractions. One example of this was a National Conference of Black Psychologists conference I attended in Oakland. A young Turk raised a copy of their Journal of Black Psychology to say, "Imagine, we are trying to heal our people but we publish a journal in language they cannot understand!"

My elder, friend, comrade, psychologist Dr. Nathan Hare says we must argue in male/female relations, though he warns in argument there must be a winner, thus the object is often lost in the desire to win, the result the partners never reach higher ground. And yet how can we argue without agreed upon language? I therefore slightly disagree, or maybe it is not slightly but a major point of departure between Dr. Hare and myself because he says silence is the enemy of healthy relationships while I say sometimes silence is glory. Yes, just shut up rather than fan the flames of a burning fire. When it is clear one partner is speaking "Russian" and another "Chinese" there is no point in continuing the conversation, just chill, shut up and cool off.

Aside from the above, among other topics to be discussed on my Revolution on the Rocks Tour include 
the highly requested How To Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a Pan African 12-step Model for a Peer Group. We have held peer group meetings coast to coast so we know it works if you work it! The immediate discovery is to realize ourselves in a safe space, sacred space, where we can bear our souls unashamed. For where does such space exist in Babylon? Of course the first step is to conquer fear, the great monster that devours us at every turn, fear of success, fear to love, fear of another brother or sister, fear of the white man and his myriad institutions that impact our lives.

We fear to love our families while claiming to love the community, yet families make community, alas, revolution is first for the salvation and reconstruction of the family. Life itself is for the perpetuation of family.

Tentative Schedule of Dr. M's Revolution on the Rocks Tour, 2012

October

Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

Larry Robbins, Moonstone, Philadelphia

Temple University, Philly

University of Penn, Philly PA

November

Nov. 2-4, Black Power to Hip Hop, Howard University, DC

Nov. 6, Reading, book party, Umoja House, Bunker Hill Rd.

Nov. 16-18, State of the Black World, Howard University, Wash. DC

Nov. 20 Newark, NJ

Nov. 25 Brooklyn, Harlem

Nov. 29 Boston MA



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Dr. M's Revolution on the Rocks tour is being organized by daughters Nefertiti, on left, Dirty South,
and Muhammida El Muhajir, center, East Coast. Muhammida will participate with dad at the intergenerational Black Power to Hip Hop Conference, Howard University, Nov. 2-4, 2012. If you would like to book Dr. M to read/speak at your venue, college, university, conference, festival, please contact Muhammida 718-496-2305.
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