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Parable of Oakland--the Death and Resurrection of A City


A city dies a natural death when itbecomes morally bankrupt, politically effete, economically depraved andspiritually caught in the morass of the cross and lynching tree. Signsof moral bankruptcy are clear when the righteous are defamed and theguilty heralded in spite of clear evidence to the contrary. A citycalled Jerusalem cried "Giveus the thieves and away with the righteous man."

In such a city the voice of truth is crushed under foot and lies areraised to the level of facts and intelligence. For many years Oakland lived underthe lies emanating from a businessman. Even though many people knew thetruth of his business or rather the dark side of his business, he wasraised high as the example of morality and community stability. Eventhough one of the abused women cried for years like the Eloquent Peasantin Egyptian literature, her cries went unheard, but finally she wasvindicated.

But today Oaklandis beset with problems of truth in the media, apathy and lack of takingauthority in the Mayor's office. The Mayor was recently shamed beforethe nation when the family of slain OPD officers commanded he not speakat their funeral. The question is who runs the city, the OPD or theMayor? We know the OPD is a gang of brute beasts in blue uniforms, andlike any gang they rule through terror and intimidation.

The Mayor submitted to them even though he is the one who represents theCity of Oakland,not the OPD. And so he is guilty of lacking moral leadership as well aspolitical stewardship, and so power flows down, lack of power as well.

In the media we see people projected as heroes who are pseudorevolutionaries that have been exposed as agent provocateurs, yet thepeople are in denial just as they were in denial about the businessman.The person is being defended even when evidence is presented to thecontrary. The people are like starry eyed idealists believing in aballoon even though it has burst before their eyes and the airdissipated.

What can save such people? Surely we know things go from bad toworse. In the hood things are at such a desperate level every man isarmed and ready to kill at the drop of a hat. There is no conflictresolution, there is no healing for the traumatized families who mustsuffer their pain of loss in silence. The family of Oscar Grant is anexception, but what about all the families who must suffer in silencebecause no one cares about their lose, their trauma, their unresolvedgrief and suffering. There are no headlines about their lost loved ones,no court case, no rallies, no apprehension of the killers. Only tearsin the day and in the night!

The church is on every corner, but it is like the liquor storeadjacent to it, providing an opiate to tranquilize the pain of thepeople with more apathy and degeneracy, with church whores running amokand mothers paying tithes with money from dope dealing sons anddaughters, and of course the preacher happily accepts the ill gottengain to extend his lifestyle of conspicuous consumption while preaching aworld of make believe and pie in the sky after you die. The Communistsare right, religion is an opiate of the people, to keep them deaf, dumband blind to truth and ultimate reality!

The school system is a total sham and scam. It has become merelyholding cells for the neo-slavery department of corrections, or simply aplace where no learning takes place because half the children drop outand the other half are maintained on drugs to keep them from theirattention deficit disorder caused not by any mental problem but by atotally boring white supremacy curriculum, making them unprepared todeal in the global economy with millions of jobs outsourced to India andChina, yet the educators are not preparing them for the new economicera because they are not prepared themselves.

There are those conscious people who clamor for a more Afrocentriceducation but do not prepare their own people to become teachers, andwhen conscious teachers express any degree of Afrocentricity, they areimmediately booted out and join the unemployment lines. In short, thereare few black teachers today, not only in Oakland but throughout the state andnation. Thus the irrelevant classroom is turning girls to prostitutionas young as twelve, thirteen and fourteen. On the streets they receivean education more exciting and glamorous than studying math and English.They can be seen nightly on Oakland'sInternational Blvd.where they join the sex trade and become further abused andmarginalized from society.

The so-called conscious community is so fractious that the verythought of unity is avoided because of ideological narrow-mindedness,whether from the pseudo conscious hip hop sector or the older ideologuessteeped in ideological purity from the 60s, still dreaming of someMarxist heaven or Pan African paradise in Africa. Thus the consciousevents are seldom events where the common people can gather forconscious knowledge and wisdom, political education that transcends thesect and cult.

And so things go from bad to worse as Murphy told us. More killings,more drugs to medicate the wounded souls trying to exist in a oncevaliant city with a revolutionary tradition that shook up the world, butnow a wounded elephant shot with a tranquilizer gun into nothingnessand dread.

No real radical solutions are presented because it would requireradical action and the status quo must be maintained to allow the bloodsuckers of the poor to get their checks and continue their conspicuousconsumption in their pitiful world of make believe.

We have suggested repeatedly offering micro loans to brothers andsisters in poverty so they can come up as millions of poor are doingaround the world. To decrease the violence we have suggested the modelused in Iraq, providinginsurgents with jobs, housing and education.

Furthermore,ex-felons, mostly convicted of the petty crimes andwould not be incarcerated if they'd had proper legal representation, canbe hired to secure their hoods, rather than racist white pigs who hatenigguhs with every ounce of blood in their body..

The resurrection of Oaklandcan only begin by thinking out of the box of yesterday's worn-out ideasthat have failed repeatedly although some have benefited and thus theirresistance, such as those bureaucrats in city government who areresisting the Mayor's attempt to hire ex-felons by not putting theircriminal past on the employment application.

The schools must be totally and radically revamped for education inthe global economy. The present curriculum must be destroyed for therelic of a gone era that it is, and perhaps many teachers will bedisposed of in the process of cleaning the educational house.

We call for peer teachers from among the bright students who canobviously explain lessons in the language of their peers. Even many ofthe socalled out of control students are in reality leaders who aresimply bored and refuse to remain silent, thus they can be trained aspeer teachers as well.

The spiritual community must simply preach a new way with a newmessage and mission of spiritual liberation and consciousness to becomesynchronized with the Information Age that will not permit dogmatism,sectarianism and religiosity to continue unchecked to the point ofreligious and culture wars across the planet. The religious communitymust be shaken out of its comfort zone, whether Muslim, Christian, Jew,Hindu, Buddhist, Rasta, Yoruba or Atheist.

Oaklandcannot die except by continued self deception and denial that anythingis radically wrong and anything less than a radical solution willresuscitate the dying body politic. When the media pundits from theright and the left are no longer guilty of perpetuating the world ofmake believe, the mighty Lazarus called Oakland will rise again to astound theworld.

The blood sucking businessmen want to hire armed guards to patrol the streets, and of course they want toincrease the OPD with more foreign, alien officers full of racism andwhite supremacy notions of how the natives must be subdued, pacified,profiled and occupied.

When the people react to the foreign army in their midst, they are criticized for their "obscene pride" asDr. Fritz Pointer called the peoples reaction to the actions of LouvelleMixon who chose death as freedom rather than return to the neo-slaveryof the prison system. In Claude McKay's classic poem, he ended withthese lines, "...pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back." Only inthis manner shall Oakland enact the Kemet Resurrection of the Dead. Novoting, no praying, no job-in, no singing, but fighting with the fist ofunity, chanting the mantra liberty or death!

--Marvin X

7/4/10

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