Parable of Jazz

Posted by Marvin X on June 9, 2010 at 5:42pm

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 hewasn't born in New Orleans, but happy just the same to claim hisheritage of black classical music, the most wonderful music in theworld. What other music could come from a people enslaved except jazz orblack classical music? Well, now, don't leave out Vudun music, another musicfrom the African democratic society

Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 9, 2010 at 12:21pm

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Ronald Holt Must Overcome Chicago Mayor Daley's "Symbolic" Appointment as new Director of Chicago's community policing program

I called Ronald Holt and congratulated him on accepting the appointment by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as the new Director of the C.A.P.S. (Community Alternative Policing Strategies) program, and how he

Parable of Helen Thomas

Posted by Marvin X on June 7, 2010 at 2:25pm

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 not Jews will do the same.

If ET occupiedPalestine we would tell him to go home. If monkeys and apes occupiedPalestine, we would tell them to go back to the jungle. So I am inagreement with Helen Thomas, it makes no sense to me that Arabs shouldbe opp

Diaspora Leaders to Hold Press Conference on Citizenship & Mission to Africa

Posted by SendMeYourNews on June 7, 2010 at 11:42am

World African Diaspora Union (WADU) ;

“We need citizenship to rebuild our Ancestral Homeland” emphasized Baba John Watusi Branch, Chief Secretariat of the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) while returning from Senegal, just one of his 100 plus business
missions to Africa over the last four decades.
“Dual-citizenship is the utmost concern and aspiration of the African Diaspora
now residing in Africa contributing their skills and investments to empower
Africa.” Baba Watusi Branch will be part o

Parable of Parental Partiality

Posted by Marvin X on June 6, 2010 at 2:06am

Surviving children Amira, Muhammida and Nefertiti, also grandson JahAmiel (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 asked Plato Negro which of his children expressed hispersonality. Immediately, he replied, all of them. The woman persisted,no, which one really expresses you. Again, Plato Negro replied all ofthem. the woman was not satisfied, she again asked which of

Parable of the Wannabe Actor, Part II

Posted by Marvin X on June 3, 2010 at 10:00pm

Parable of the 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 (some actors are known and have been sound recorded entering the dressing room after a scene to take a nip).

I want full concentration before going on stage. Now this may be most difficult if the actor is also director and/or producer, as he must dea

DMV

Amnesty is a “Terror-ble” Idea

Posted by Raynard Jackson on June 3, 2010 at 12:05am

June 3, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Am I the only who is sick and tired of illegals telling me what their rights are in this country? Am I the only one who is sick and tired of pro-amnesty groups trotting out all the sob stories from illegals—“their mother brought them here when they were little kids, etc?” It’s not about rights; it’s about what is right!

Is it right for illegals to get free healthcare when citizens do not? Is it right for illegals to get in-state tuition for university when citizens do n

Parable of Women Without Men

Posted by Marvin X on June 2, 2010 at 4:07am

Parable of Women Without Men

There was war in the land, for centuries war in the land. The men werebred for labor, sperm donations, and death. The women were booty, thespoils of war. A classical situation, nothing unique, racist, call itthe art of war. Men must be destroyed, or humiliated, effeminated,castrated, dehumanized. Where is the movie of David Walker, Nat Turner,Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, Toussaint, Bokman?

There is no other way to exercise social control over the population ofoppres

Nations of the Americas, Stop fighting the USA's War On Drugs!

Posted by TheBlackList on June 1, 2010 at 10:00pm

Like the cold was fought far from the shore of the USA and USSR by proxy nations and armies and brought untold miseries to millions while and so that “Americans” could wantonly enjoy the "good life" and Russians could dream of the
supremacy of socialism; the Drug War has brought misery and death and lost
opportunities to thousands in the Americas.

It is time the nations of the Americas stop fighting USA's Drug War.

If the USA will not curb its appetite for drugs, nations of the Americas must cease

Round Midnight

Posted by Marvin X on June 1, 2010 at 12:58pm

Round Midnight

Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
wherehe's going
I'm going too.

Death is always around
trying to steal life
death is always around
trying to steal life
If itdon't get the husband
It'll get the wife.

Monk's gone
but Iain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue.
--Marvin X
fromPoems for North American Africans, Marvin X, Al Kitab Sudan Press, 1983.

DMV

BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS: Reflections....

Posted by H. Khalif Khalifah on June 1, 2010 at 12:06pm

BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS:

REFLECTIONS AND THOUGHTS IN PREPARATION

FOR THE ANNUAL N’COBRA CONFERENCE

By H. Khalif Khalifah

MAY 31, 2010

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA - The dynamic word within the Great Issue of Reparations is DEMAND. Demand implies that if you don’t receive a positive response there will be consequences for the Nation that the demand is made on. In short, not caring about consequences is the basic reason why “the powers that be,” are turning a deaf eat to the great work of

How the British came to Ethiopia Part one May 1811 - May 1865

Posted by TheBlackList on June 1, 2010 at 9:48am

Seymour Mclean -

Ras Tafari International Consultants Africa Liberation day inquiry.

How the British came to Ethiopia Part one May 1811 - May 1865

REPORT OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE.

Mr. Tierney 15 May 1811 → CTRL + Click to follow link" size="3"">Commons Sitting
The right hon. gent. (Mr. Vansittart) had spoken of a certain madman in Abyssinia; but it appeared to him that nothing more ridiculous could occur to the mind of any madman in Abyssinia, or out of it, than that great and expensive Wars we

Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen, Chicago Community Reacts to the Death of Vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations, another legend

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 31, 2010 at 10:10pm

Statement from Veteran Activist/Journalist, Mark S. Allen on how Chicago's grassroots community remembers the life and legacy of the late vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations

"In addition to being an activist, I have long been involved as a music disc-jockey and local party promotions and know how much Chicago's dance and steppers community loved Ali-Ollie Woodson for his many appearances at local events in Chicago, his performamces and despite his membership in one of the worlds most le

Parable of Trinkets & Gadgets

Posted by Marvin X on May 31, 2010 at 6:27pm

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 of men were for sale.

Stopping by was afleet of Mercedes full of kings, prime ministers and presidents for
life. They fought each other on the roadside for the precious rocks and
metals, animal skins, even wigs and huge plastic containers of bleaching
cream, a precious min

Memorial Day

Posted by Marvin X on May 31, 2010 at 12:32pm

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 visit Vietnam as a running dog forimperialism
I visited Canada, Chicago, Harlem, Mexico and Belize
Federalprison for a minute
But veteran I am
of the war in the hood
warof domestic colonialism
neo-colonialism
White supremacy in blackface war
Fighting for black p

Parable of the Man Who Can Write

Posted by Marvin X on May 31, 2010 at 6:22am

Parable of the Man Who Can Write

Preface

Brother, you always amaze me. The way you can turn out a piece every day of the year, 356 days, or however many there are, you are always on the case, sometimes three or four pieces if there is a hot subject. I mean all over the wide wide world web. And be on Da corner, too. Fantastic!

You know, I like those Westerns--I was born and raised up in that age--in which there is always some white cat (tall and rugged) who is handy with a gun, you know, the fastes

Chicago-Midwest

Chicago Media Gives Obama Pass On Response To Chicago Crime

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 28, 2010 at 10:36am

Mark S. Allen, Associate Editor, The South Street Journal Newspaper

Founder/President, The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI

449 East 36th Street, 1st Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60616

312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

CHICAGO MEDIA GIVING PRESIDENT OBAMA PASS ON RESPONSE TO RISE IN CHICAGO VIOLENCE, INCLUDING DEATH OF CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER AND WAR TWO TIME IRAQ WAR VETERAN CHARLES WORTHAM IV

"The Chicago media has devoted most of its Chicago programming and interviews and analysis of Obama's curre

Chicago-Midwest

TRIBUTE AND RESOLUTION TO SLAIN CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER THOMAS WORTHAM IV "We Tried Not To Let You Down"

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 28, 2010 at 8:56am

The Black Leadership Development Insitute, BLDI

449 East 35th Street, 1st Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60616

773-392-0165

Mark S. Allen, Founder/President

FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 2010

TRIBUTE AND RESOLUTION TO OFFICER THOMAS WORTHAM IV

"We Tried Not To Let You Down"

Thomas, you were committed to your Chatham community in terms of crime intervention and prevention, and you had your ears to the ground, you sounded the alarm, we tried not to let you down. Two weeks before you died, community leaders, elected official

Chicago-Midwest

TRIBUTE AND RESOLUTION TO OFFICER THOMAS WORTHAM IV "We Tried Not To Let You Down"

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 28, 2010 at 8:52am

Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr at Chicago BP Protest Friday May 28th

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 28, 2010 at 6:54am

Mark Allen, BLDI, BWS-C, Poor People's Campaign, Environmental activists, community organizers Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr and The National Rainbow /PUSH Coalition in continued public protest and boycott call of BP, at BP site at 12th & Wabash in Chicago

The People Must Not Pay The Bill For The BP Spill

773-392-0165

FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 2010

Veteran Activist, Mark Allen, founder and president of The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI, and Board member of The Black Wall Street -Chicago Projec

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Parable of Jazz

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

Parable of Helen Thomas

Monday, June 7, 2010

Parableof Helen Thomas

Diaspora Leaders to Hold Press Conference on Citizenship & Mission to Africa

Parable of Parental Partiality

Parable of the Wannabe Actor, Part II

Amnesty is a “Terror-ble” Idea

Parable of Women Without Men

Nations of the Americas, Stop fighting the USA's War On Drugs!

Round Midnight

BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS: Reflections....

How the British came to Ethiopia Part one May 1811 - May 1865

Seymour Mclean -

Ras Tafari International Consultants Africa Liberation day inquiry.

REPORT OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE.

Mark Allen, Chicago Community Reacts to the Death of Vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations, another legend

Parable of Trinkets & Gadgets

Memorial Day

Monday, May 31, 2010

Parable of the Man Who Can Write

Chicago Media Gives Obama Pass On Response To Chicago Crime

TRIBUTE AND RESOLUTION TO SLAIN CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER THOMAS WORTHAM IV "We Tried Not To Let You Down"

TRIBUTE AND RESOLUTION TO OFFICER THOMAS WORTHAM IV "We Tried Not To Let You Down"

Mark Allen Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr at Chicago BP Protest Friday May 28th

Mark Allen, BLDI, BWS-C, Poor People's Campaign, Environmental activists, community organizers Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr and The National Rainbow /PUSH Coalition in continued public protest and boycott call of BP, at BP site at 12th & Wabash in Chicago

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