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

PullYo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

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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

Europe

Dissertation writing help for dissertation topic selection and ideas generation

Posted by Ashley Dupre on June 18, 2010 at 8:12am

I spent each and every night until 4: 00 am, a time came when I could not write further, not even a single character of my dissertation.I went to the bed and start planning for next day progress of my dissertationbut helpless as I fell to sleep and the next morning, 8 o’ clock I was upwriting my dissertation again.

This is the most common situation for students because most if not all students have to face the predicaments and need the help for dissertation,research papers, or any other assignmen

I Cannot Hide from the Kora

Posted by Marvin X on June 17, 2010 at 9:47pm

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Oh, MightyKora

Why do you tear the heart apart
take soulfrom mind
ten thousand years of culture
seeps into a soul lost intime
Oh, Kora
taking heart into time lost, time regained
whatmagic is this, what mystery
sound set centuries ago
noimprovisation, no jazz
myth and ritual set for infinity
voicesheard
message to the king
from the king
griot sings song to thecourt
king listens and obeys sound of kora
submit or die
heartmusic cannot lie
sound of a thousand nights on the River Senegal
danceof

Parable of Slow Dance on the Killing Floor

Posted by Marvin X on June 17, 2010 at 12:05pm

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Parable ofSlow Dance on the Killing Floor

The people werefull of fear at what retribution might be coming to pharaoh since hehad been so mean and evil to the people throughout his empire. He was acruel bone crusher who showed no mercy to the poor, who gave the peopleslave wages and little, if any health care, when they became old, theirbodies full of disease from bad food and hard labor throughout theirlives.

The people could see afflictions coming upon pharaohslowly, one af

DMV

Don’t Ask and I’m Telling

Posted by Raynard Jackson on June 17, 2010 at 12:00am

June 17, 2010

Raynard Jackson

There is a raging debate about the Democratic Party’s push to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) and to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. This debate provides an interesting insight into the psyche of Democrats and Republicans.

DADT is a Clinton era policy that simply says gay people can serve in the military as long as they don’t make their sexual preferences known (notice I used the term preference, NOT orientation. Orientation is very passive and suggests that one

Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 16, 2010 at 1:03pm

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

MARK ALLEN TALKS - ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. "As a Board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Project, I am pleased to help host these national company executives from Rain International, and expose grassroots entrepreneurs to the company's Chicago faith based cause initiative, and most importantly, local investment and small business, local job creation, ownership opport

Parable of the Solution

Posted by Marvin X on June 15, 2010 at 12:48am

Monday, June 14, 2010

Parable of the Solution

DuBois said how does it feel to be a problem, but Plato Negro says how does it feel to be the solution? And yet one is totally ignored, silenced, muffled like a wild dog. But within his bowels, the North American African possesses the answer to the conundrum that perplexes the most astute and erudite, especially among the state intellectuals in perpetual crisis and Pharaoh's magicians, the religious scientists and others steeped in religiosity.

The so

Parable of Da Corner

Posted by Marvin X on June 14, 2010 at 3:32pm

Parableof Da Corner

Parable of DaCorner

WAKE UP EVERYBODY - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES (1975)

Plato Negro asks conscious teachers to follow his example by going to the street cornersof their communities and sharing with youth and adults, bydisseminating knowledge and practical wisdom, counseling those in needof healing from trauma and unresolved grief--to be more a listener than ateacher, for only by listening can we

Chicago-Midwest

Governor Quinn's Death Sentence To Black Youth and Program That Was Saving Their Lives

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 9:26pm

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- The life and death decisions that Governor Quinn The State of Illinois makes when the same week that they announce the State budget will provide $6 million dollars in funds to breathe life into new downtown communication buildings, while at the same time cutting the desperately needed funds for Father Michael Pfleger at St. Sabina and his SafetyNet crime intervention and prevention programs this summer to help save the lives of Black youth who are dying at alarming rates.!!

Mo

Parable of Lord Have Mercy

Posted by Marvin X on June 12, 2010 at 1:19pm

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Parable ofLord Have Mercy

A beggar came to Plato Negro askingfor change to get something to eat. Plato Negro knew the man to betalented so he denied the request, even though he had at least a hundreddollars in his pocket, including change, which was all the man wanted.

Whenthe beggar heard Plato Negro say no, he cried, "Lord have mercy!" andwalked away. The words Lord Have Mercy rang like a bell in Plato's ears,suddenly he was full of fear that God was speaking to him throug

South

The Past Between Them

Posted by Author Stephanie Morris on June 12, 2010 at 12:49pm

TITLE: The Past Between Them

AUTHOR: Stephanie Morris

AUTHOR URL: http://www.stephaniemorris.webs.com

GENRE/THEME: Contemporary African American Romance

PUBLISHER: Sugar and Spice Press

URL TO THE BUYING PAGE:

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EXCERPT RATING: PG-13

BLURB:

Tovah Warren is devastated when she loses her father. Things get worse when she loses her job. Just when it seemsthat the world is already crashing down around her, the attorney of

Chicago-Midwest

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 10:12am

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

MARK ALLEN TALKS ---- One thing that is clear that you do not hear in the latest media battles between Governor Quinn and Senator Bill Brady or Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulius is WHO best has a grassroots Black or poor people's agenda and they are on the ballot with 5,000 signatures. And the indpendent campaigns of William "Dock" Walls and Scott Lee Cohen who ARE actively engaging the grassroots Bla

Parable of Broken Systems, Broken Minds

Posted by Marvin X on June 11, 2010 at 4:51am

ParableofBroken Systems, Broken Minds

The oilcontaminating theGulf is but the most recent example of man's mind failing him as aresult of greed. Anyone who believes the white man knows what he isdoing in the world is a triple damn fool. This man is a danger tohimself and others. He should be confined to an institution for longterm recovery from the addiction to white supremacy.

Whatwe perceive as reality is most often a reflection of imagination, ofmythology and ritual, or simply the mind of man

A Poem for Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

Posted by Marvin X on June 11, 2010 at 4:23am

APoem for Dessie Woods/Rashidah Muhammad

The following poem by Kalamu ya Salaam honors Dessie X. Woods/Rashidah Muhammad(RIP), a warrior queen who killed her rapist in Georgia before moving toOakland where she worked with the Uhuru Movement, Marvin X, and became amidwife and community organizer in West Oakland before making hertransition due to cancer at 61.

There is a street named Rashidah Muhammad Way, downtown Oakland, but we doubt those whonamed the street in her honor were aware of her valian

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Marvin X

Pull Yo Pants Up

fada Black Prez

and Yo Self!

Essays on

Obama Drama

plus

the Hustler’s Guide to the Game Called Life

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

Saturday, June 12, 2010

There is a street named Rashidah Muhammad Way, downtown Oakland, but we doubt those whonamed the street in her honor were aware of her valian

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