Parable of Oakland, A City Traumatized

Posted by Marvin X on July 2, 2010 at 12:30am

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Parable ofOakland, A City Traumatized

At this hour,Thursday, July 1, 2010, Oakland is a city under siege, the OPD occupyingarmy is everywhere throughout the downtown area and the hood. Thepolice are riding four deep, stopping cars and people in the hood, fromthe west to the east to the north. Downtown stores and businesses wereshuttered today and many workers have been told to take the day offtomorrow, for fear the pitiful verdict shall be rendered basicallyexonerating the B

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Silence Can Be So Loud

Posted by Raynard Jackson on July 1, 2010 at 1:41am

July 1, 2010

Raynard Jackson

What is amazing about the confirmation hearing of Elaine Kagan for the Supreme Court is not the loud rancoring coming out of the Republican Party, but the deafening silence coming from the radical left—especially within the Black and Latino communities. Their silence speaks so loud.

When will the Black community become more sophisticated in their approach to politics? If you are on the wrong side of Israel, the Jewish community will withhold their money and vote you out

More on Oscar Grant

Posted by Marvin X on June 30, 2010 at 8:00pm

Lumumba

Posted by Marvin X on June 30, 2010 at 9:31am

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 histime, and so it is. But even fifty years later the same problems ofpoverty, ignorance and disease remain, the Europeans are still therestealing the wealth, although the Chinese have entered the drama.Hopefully, with the Chinese, in exchange for pr

Parable of Oakland Police Riot

Posted by Marvin X on June 29, 2010 at 10:19pm

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 is announced in the Oscar Grantmurder trial. The consensus among the people is that the BART policeofficer shall not be found guilty of murder. The prosecution has beenweak as water, with no real effort to convince the jury Oscar Grant wasmurdered in

Parable of Oakland Police Riot

Posted by Marvin X on June 29, 2010 at 10:19pm

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 is announced in the Oscar Grantmurder trial. The consensus among the people is that the BART policeofficer shall not be found guilty of murder. The prosecution has beenweak as water, with no real effort to convince the jury Oscar Grant wasmurdered in

Parable of Value

Posted by Marvin X on June 29, 2010 at 2:03pm

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Parable ofValue

Dat Dere

Dat Der

Brother Khalid came to Plato Negro wanting to know why his latest book waspriced a hunid dollars? Plato replied, did not a character in one ofShakespeare's plays say, "I know my price"?
Plato told Khalid I wantpeople to value wisdom as opposed to the common, Miller Lite trashpromoted as literature by the bourgeoisie press. Value is based on truthand beauty. Will you not, Khalid, admit The Wisdom of Plato Negrocontains a generous amount of truth

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Congressman Rush, Rev. Jackson, Activists, Unity Meeting On Chicago Violence Call For United Front Meeting/Rally at PUSH Saturday, July 3rd

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 29, 2010 at 5:07am

Congressman Rush, Rev. Jackson, Activists, Unity Meeting On Chicago Violence Call For United Front Meeting/Rally at PUSH Saturday, July 3rd

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Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

Posted by Marvin X on June 29, 2010 at 12:15am

Thursday, June 24, 2010

PullYo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

I don't want to see your naked behind, show me the genius of your mind.
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Stay connected to new generation. they really can feelyou. as much as you dislike rap. your style is very hip hop. Lol!brash. raw. in your face. not givin a F what anybody thinks albeit amuch stronger

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Getting back to Africa and staying on my horse

Posted by MilagrosV. Garcia Villamil on June 28, 2010 at 11:30am

from, NY to Cali by with Sankofa..Maybe to Africa?

A MAN AND HIS HORSE

SEEING HIS VISION AND HOPES FOR OUR SUNS AND DAWTAS..ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

HE WOULD PLANTED ANOTHER SEED

WHEN THE GOING GOT RUFF SPEAK TO ANCESTORS

VISIONS PASSED ON

GOOD FRIENDS NEVER BECOME ENEMIES

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AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY AND STAYING GROUNDED:

My 15 yr old grandawta did some research about smal

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Support For Black Owned Business Growing - Smokin' Joe Products

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 28, 2010 at 5:59am

Support For Black Owned Business Growing - Smokin' Joe Products

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One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago.

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Black economic empowerment and the effort to sustain an increase Black owned businesses and local job creation.

As a board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Projec

Plato Negro's Republic of North American Africans and Morality

Posted by Marvin X on June 28, 2010 at 12:30am

Sunday, June 27, 2010
Plato Negro's Republic and Morality

Plato Negro's Republic and Morality
There are those who claim we don't want a nation of saints or holy men and women. For sure, we don't need a theocracy, a nation ruled by the religious clergy. Iran has destroyed any desire for such a nation of religious purists, and the Taliban have put nails in the coffin. The pall bearers in Saudi Arabia make us repel at the notion of a nation under the rule of Sharia or Islamic law, and Christian Ameri

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Ode to Michael Jackson--II

Posted by Raynard Jackson on June 27, 2010 at 2:48am

Having received so many calls this week on the approaching anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death June 25, 2009, 1:25 p.m. (LA time), I decided to re-run the column I wrote last year in the aftermath of his death. This was my tribute to Michael and his family. I will have an exclusive announcement about this very soon, so be on the lookout!

Ode to Michael Jackson

July 2, 2009

Raynard Jackson

Like a candle in the wind,

Your life came to a sudden end.

With “A Child’s Heart,”

You began your start.

You brou

Parable of Plato Negro's Republic of North American Africans

Posted by Marvin X on June 27, 2010 at 2:00am

Saturday, June 26, 2010

For Sister Njere Aghanee, in memoriam

Parable ofPlato 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 their
national interests. Even the most revolutionary internationalist nation
will give you up when it is in their national interest to do so. Black
in the 60s, the Algerian Government gave refuge to the Black Panther
Party until some BPP
members hijacked a

Chicago-Midwest

Respond To E-Mail From Wallace "Gator" Bradley on Crime Solutions Meeting With Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 26, 2010 at 1:19pm

I received an e-mail from Wallace "Gator" Bradley, regarding an e-mail that was being circulated regarding a proposed Monday afternoon meeting with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr at Rainbow/PUSH regarding solutions to crime, assuming that I was overlooked and may indeed be welcome to this Monday's meeting or to provide some input.

The first things that sticks out to me are "activists" and "community organizers" missing from the subject matter, text of the meeting and systematic part of the plan of act

Kinda Makes You Wonder

Posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton on June 25, 2010 at 4:12pm

From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Kinda Makes You Wonder

“With 12 Democrats joining a unanimous Republican bloc, the US Senate voted Wednesday to defeat a proposed extension of unemployment benefits for workers who have been jobless for nearly two years. The bill would have extended unemployment benefits for those out of work more than six months, until November 30. In the two and a half weeks since June 1, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cu

Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

Posted by Marvin X on June 24, 2010 at 4:07pm

Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Parable of the General as a Rolling Stone

Posted by Marvin X on June 24, 2010 at 2:25pm

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 Afghanistan for denigrating remarks in Rolling Stone magazine.

Wethink the general orchestrated his departure to escape being part ofAmerica's neo-Vietnam, especially after calling for a surge of troopsthat have done nothing to stop the forward march o

Europe

A Democracy Of Profligacy And Outright Treasury-Looting

Posted by Akintokunbo Adejumo on June 23, 2010 at 7:22pm

Quote (Elombah Perspectives): “President Barack Obama's salary is $400,000 per annum. A Nigeria Senator collects ₦48 million per quarter. At the end of the year, each senator's haul will be in the neighbourhood of $1.7 million. Each of the 360 members of the House of Representatives will receive ₦35 million, that's $300,000 per member per quarter. At the end of the year, each member of the House would have collected a cool $1.2 million”.

Past surveys of salaries and benefits of public office hol

Parable of a Nigguh

Posted by Marvin X on June 19, 2010 at 12:50pm

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Parableof a Nigguh

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 nigguh, many of you have been the most niggardly inyour behavior. Some of you who are now so holy have a history of killingnigguhs, robbing and raping nigguhs, doing the most horrible things tonigguhs, but now that you see the ligh

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