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Parable of the Man Who Left the Mountain

Posted by Marvin X on March 27, 2010 at 4:42am

Parable of the Man

Who Left the Mountain

On April 4, 2008, forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I found myself packing to return to the Bay Area, a killing floor for black people. During the past five years, I was blessed to write and publish five books at my retreat in the rolling hills of Cherokee, California: (In the Crazy House Called America, Wish I Could Tell You the Truth, Land of My Daughters; Beyond Religion, Toward Spirituality; How to Recover from the Addi

Parable of the A Students

Posted by Marvin X on March 26, 2010 at 10:30pm

Parable of the A Students

There was a group of students who were good in school. They did everything their teacher told them, attended classes without fail, did homework to the T, went on field trips to the various hot spots in town, even stayed out late to make sure they learn all the subject matter at the spot.

When the teacher told them to do bad things, they followed instructions to a T. They especially liked to do the opposite when the teacher told them good things. He told them this wa

Georgia

Is Texas trying to Whitewash it's History???

Posted by Corey Washington on March 26, 2010 at 8:21pm

As a Social Studies teacher, this story hit home. For those who don't know, Texas recently approved some changes to its social studies curriculum. Changes include:

Capitalism is now--Free enterprise system. (negative--Capitalist Pig)
Thomas Jefferson is dropped because he coined the "separation of church and state" phrase.
Efforts to include Hispanic/Latino heroes were defeated
Students will now learn about the violent stance of the Black Panthers right along with the non-violent approach of MLK.
NRA

DMV

A Liberal Solution To Black Unemployment

Posted by Raynard Jackson on March 25, 2010 at 5:35pm

March 25, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Every time I try to give radical, Black, liberals the benefit of the doubt when it comes to doing what’s in the best interest of our own community, I am saddened to conclude that I doubt that there is any benefit.

They claim to represent the Black community, but yet at every turn they undermine the very people they are supposed to be helping. If white people did to us what we are doing to ourselves, there would be a great uproar throughout the country.

The national une

Chicago-Midwest

BLACK AMERICA 2010 - DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID

Posted by Enoch Mubarak on March 25, 2010 at 2:13pm

MARCH 2010 - http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/03/24/black.america.study/...

The median household income for blacks stands at $34,218; for whites, it's $55,530. Less than half of blacks own a home compared to three quarters of white families. Blacks are more than three times as likely to live in poverty.

In addition, black-owned businesses represent a paltry 5 percent of privately owned companies, and the study says more are needed to help spur job growth in minority communities. The Obama

There Was An Island There was an island called Jerusalem it disappeared into the Arabian Sea call it climate warming island no more people can fish now in the sea where island used to be fish sweet t

Posted by Marvin X on March 25, 2010 at 12:56am

There Was An Island

There was an island called Jerusalem

it disappeared into the Arabian Sea

call it climate warming

island no more

people can fish now

in the sea

where island used to be

fish sweet tasty

sea peaceful now

waves gentle

tide comes to shore like old times

before Abraham

when Canaan and Mizraim were brothers.

--Marvin X

3/23/10

www.academyofdacorner.blogspot.com

Parable of the Good Children

Posted by Marvin X on March 24, 2010 at 8:03pm

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

PARABLE OF THE GOOD CHILDREN

And they asked Plato Negro about the good children. Why doesn't he write something about them, a young man asked at his open-air classroom? So he replied that he had done so in his manual How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy. In chapter five, we admit to the God within and without the exact nature of our wrongs.

Oh, Higher Power, please forgive me for I knew not what I was doing on so many occasions in my life, and then I ask fo

Thinking Out the Box: Message to the White Man

Posted by Marvin X on March 24, 2010 at 2:00pm

Message to the White Man

We rejected the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in his classic book Message to the Black Man, so today the white man, yes, the white devil, Yacub’s grafted being, is teaching his people from Message to the Black Man. On the popular AM radio show Coast to Coast Live, recently featured on the TV show Nightline, for years, the white man has been talking about many of the notions Elijah tried to tell us in his book and Supreme Wisdom. At least the hip hop generatio

The Life Story of Henry Ramsey, Jr. An Autobiography; Hardscratch Press 2008 “Henry Ramsey's open-ended conversation with his descendants is a gift for any reader. His frank and eloquent account of t

Posted by Marvin X on March 23, 2010 at 7:25pm

The Life Story of Henry Ramsey, Jr.

An Autobiography;
Hardscratch Press 2008

“Henry Ramsey's open-ended conversation with his descendants is a gift for any reader. His frank and eloquent account of the journey from Jim Crow childhood to a life of activism, public service, and high achievement will be familiar to some, a revelation to others. The challenge he issues is for all: Never forget our past. Never stop working for our future. Always cherish our children.” —Benjamin Todd Jealous, president

Parable of Man, Beasts, Ancestors and Nature

Posted by Marvin X on March 23, 2010 at 1:16pm

Parable of Man, Beasts, Ancestors and Nature

The Tsunami in South Asia (and the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile) is only the most recent tragedy in that part of the world.... The Tsunami proved that Nature is the master of all things, for it spared no one and nothing in its path of destruction. The people on one island were spared only because they recalled the ancestors had warned them to head for the hills whenever there was an earthquake because a Tsunami was sure to follow.

On another

Book Review: We Will Return in the Whirlwind

Posted by Marvin X on March 23, 2010 at 5:00am

We Will Return in the Whirlwind:
Black Radical Organizations 1960 – 1975
By Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford Jr.).
(Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2007. Pp.378, Notes, Appendix, $18.00)

This book is a participant – observer investigation into four of the main radical black organizations in America between 1960 – 1975: the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the League of Revolutionary Black Wo

Parable of the Drunk Man

Posted by Marvin X on March 23, 2010 at 4:00am

Parable of the Drunk Man

Marvin X in Harlem, NY

1968. Photo by Doug Harris

One night a drunk man came by the house singing a song, "Boy, they comin' ta git ya in da mornin. Boy, dey comin ta git ya in da mornin. Ya bin down here preachin dat black power, and da comin fa ya in da mornin."

My wife and I just laughed at the old drunk outside our house and wished he would go away, but sure enough when I got on the boat for the five hour ride through the jungle to the main town to reup on food, I noticed

Chicago-Midwest

911 - STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING - LISTEN UP

Posted by Enoch Mubarak on March 22, 2010 at 3:24pm

My name is Enoch Mubarak and I am not going to lie to you.FORGET ABOUT IT!Listen to me! If you want to live and not starve to death get off the chitterlings circuit. Forget about THE COVENANT WITH BLACK AMERICA, WE COUNT - THE BLACK AGENDA IS AMERICAS AGENDA and THE RESURRECTED BLACK WALL STREET INITIATIVE. They were all conceived out of fear, born on a dead end premise and pronounced dead on arrival for the benefit of Black America.If you want to live you better seek shelter now!MARCH 2010 – RE

Parable of the City of God

Posted by Marvin X on March 21, 2010 at 1:00pm

Parable of the City of God

You have destroyed the City of God, turned it into a hell hole wherein brother is against brother and sister against sister. The City of God has become the habitation of devils who kill at will the children of God who are slain in the streets while no action is taken against them and the so-called good people are silent in the night, hiding in their mansions in fear and terror, knowing for a certainty the devils shall invade their homes, it is only a matter of time, sim

AAPDEP Cell Phone Drive - Donate your old/used cell phone

Posted by TheBlackList on March 20, 2010 at 10:08pm

Announcing the kick-off of a cell phone drive to benefit The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and the environment you live in!

Come donate your used cell phones to be reused or recycled. For each cell phone donation, you will support AAPDEP in our effort to build community garden projects in St. Petersburg, Houston, and Washington D.C. and an infant and maternal mortality clinic in Sierra Leone.

Many Africans suffer from food insecurity in the US. The gardens are

Parables, Fables, Musings of Plato Negro--A Hustler's Guide to the Game Called Life

Posted by Marvin X on March 20, 2010 at 10:00pm

Parables,

Fables,

Musings of

Plato Negro

by

Marvin X

Contents

Part One: Parables and Fables

Parable of the Hustler

Parable of the Woman at the Well

Parable of the Gambler

Parable of Letting Go

Parable of the Bar

Parable of the Table

Parable of the Bitter Bitch

Parable of the Weather

Parable of the City of God

Parable of the Sick Soul

Parable of the Criminal Society

Parable of Monks and Ministers

Parable of the No People
Fable of the Black Bird
Parable of the Real Woman
Parable of the Cell Phone
Parable of the Man With

Two Poems for Marvin X Madpoet

Posted by Marvin X on March 20, 2010 at 12:51pm

Marvin X and Dr. J. Vern Cromartie--a Marvin X Scholar. This photo is from the celebration for Amiri Baraka's 75th birthday, produced by Marvin X at the San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center in the Fillmore District. Photo by Kamau Amen Ra

Street Spirits

(For Marvin X)

under a red sky
you have roamed
the streets of San Francisco
rapping about homeless blues
in your poetry
in your life
in your spirit

under a red sky
i saw you
once selling the Poetry Flash
to rich tourists and wondered
whether you would bec

FBI Entrapment: Personal Stories of Preemptive Prosecution

Posted by SendMeYourNews on March 19, 2010 at 8:00pm

Thursday March 25th at 7:00 p.m.

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012

Vanderbilt Room 220, New York University

The Fort Dix Five. Yassin Aref. The Newburgh Four.
"Homegrown terrorists" stopped dead in their tracks, or victims of FBI
entrapment? A panel of speakers will discuss these cases in light of the FBI's
campaign since 9/11 that includes preemptive prosecution, the targeting of
Muslim communities and the use of agent provocateurs and informants to entrap
innocent people.

A Street Named Rashidah Muhammad

Posted by Marvin X on March 19, 2010 at 9:00am

A Street Named Rashidah Muhammad

There is a street in Oakland
nobody knows
hardly sees
they pass it going downtown on 20th Street/Tom Berkley Way (A Black Man)
Rashidah Muhammad intersecting Tom Berkley
how nice
a black man's street intersecting a black woman's street
how nice
but who knows this Rashidah Muhammad
how many women or men or children
black or white, Muslim, Christian
but there it is
Rashidah Muhammad Street
named for a little warrior woman
midwife community organizer mother wife lover
who fought an