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Fable of the Donkey

Posted by Marvin X on April 12, 2010 at 4:24pm

Fable of theDonkey

In memory of Ali Sharif Bey,
my teacher

Theso-called Negro is the donkey of the world, everybody rides him tosuccess. If you need a free ride to success, jump on the Negro's backand ride into the sunset. He will welcome you with open arms. No saddleneeded, just jump on his back and ride him to the bank.

Theso-called Negro lives in Negroland, and the whole world is welcome,free of charge. He claims it as his turf, but not really because he runswhenever popocomes. Why would he run i

Now Available: The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables and Fables by Marvin X

Posted by Marvin X on April 7, 2010 at 11:00pm

Now Available from Black Bird Press

The Wisdom of Plato Negro
Parables/Fables
Marvin X

“Is Marvin X a parable or fable? We doubt a Marvin X exists! We double doubt there is a Plato Negro!”

—Amiri Baraka

"He's the USA's Rumi!"

--Bob Holman

"Jeremiah, I presume! I am sure these parables are a first in America exploiting this literary category. People will wonder where to place these parables and fables. You have expanded contemporary literature. I suspect there is nothing like them in post-modern Ameri

Parable of the Heart

Posted by Marvin X on April 6, 2010 at 5:30am

Parable of the Heart

There was a man who loved God. He went to churches, mosques, temples in his search for God. He married, had children, a good job, yet still didn't feel he knew God. He prayed day and night until
his knee caps had sores. He called out for God to make Himself known in
his life. Hearing nothing from God, he balled his fists at God, in anger
and frustration. Why won't God talk to me, he wondered?

He loved his family and they loved him. He gave them all the material comforts,
yet he w

Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher

Posted by Marvin X on April 5, 2010 at 2:30pm

Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher

for Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

Sooner or later, they always come for the teacher. After all, the more popular, the more dangerous. The more
serious and sincere, the more a threat to the bourgeoisie whose
philosophy is do nothing, say nothing, know nothing. Thus, the serious
teacher has no seat at the table. Yes, he is tolerated for a time, maybe
a long time, but the plot was hatched the first day he arrived to
teach, when the contract was signed, his doom was seal

Parable of the Parrot

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

Parable of the Parrot

for Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Pan African Revolution

The king wanted parrots around him. He wants all his ministers to wear
parrot masks. He said he had to do the same for the previous king. He
only said what the king wanted to hear, nothing more, so he advised his
ministers to do the same. In fact, they must encourage the people to
become parrots. Yes, he wanted a nation of parrots.

Don't sayanything the kings does not want to hear. Everything said should be
music to his ears. And

Parable of the Man Who Loved His Mama

Posted by Marvin X on April 4, 2010 at 11:10pm

Parable of the Man Who LovedHis Mama

Motherlove turns to smother love....
--Nietzsche

Heavenis at the feet of your mother.
--Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

There was a man wholoved his mama and his mama loved him, even though she called him theghost of her husband, who many years ago abandoned his family of fourchildren, and died in the dirty South of alcoholism. The man who lovedhis mama was only four years old when his father left. For a long timethe boy would stand in the doorway waiting for his father t

The Journal of Pan African Studies Call for Poetry

Posted by Marvin X on April 4, 2010 at 3:30pm

The Journal of Pan African Studies Call for Poetry

CALL FOR POETRY

December 2010 edition of

The Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS)
in honor of
Dingane Jose Goncalves,
founder
Journal of Black Poetry

The Journal of Pan African Studies is pleased to announce a special literary arts edition devoted to poetry edited byguest editor Marvin X, poet, playwright, essayist, activist, one of the
founders of the Black Arts Movement ,called the USA's Rumi (Bob Holman)
and the father of Muslim American literature (

Parable of the Madpoet

Posted by Marvin X on April 3, 2010 at 12:00pm

Parable of theMadpoet

And I'm the great would-be poet. Yes. That's right! Poet. Some kind of bastard literature...all it
needs is a simple knife thrust. Just let me bleed you, you loud whore, and one poem vanished.
A whole people of neurotics, struggling to keep from being sane. And the only thing that would
cure the neurosis would be your murder...
--Amiri Baraka, The Dutchman

He was a man who lived on the razor's edge,like a tight walker about to fall into the chasm, a false step, a
slight loss of

Parable of the Preacher's Wife

Posted by Marvin X on April 2, 2010 at 6:15am

Friday, April 2, 2010

Parableof the Preacher's Wife

Parableofthe Preacher's Wife

There was a preacher who had amost beautiful wife. She used to come pass Plato Negro's street academyon da corner of 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland. She was sobeautiful Plato Negro had to stop teaching whenever she passed. Her skinwas clean and glowing. Her clothes were of fine cloth. Her legs werewell shaped, her shoes expensive.

At first she would take Plato'swritings home to read. But she came one day to tell h

Parable of the Rabbit

Posted by Marvin X on April 1, 2010 at 4:30am

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Parable ofthe Rabbit

There was arabbit that laid chicken eggs. People were so impressed with this rabbitthey went hunting for rabbit eggs. The eggs were of different colors,beautiful red, green, yellow, purple and blue colored eggs. What amagical rabbit this was.

Somehow the people made a strangeconnection between this rabbit and a man who was crucified, resurrectedand ascended to heaven. According to this fantastic story, the man arosefrom inside a cave with a big rock at t

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Tea-ed Off

Posted by Raynard Jackson on April 1, 2010 at 12:24am

April 1, 2010

Raynard Jackson

With so much news coverage surrounding the heated rhetoric coming from the tea party, I thought it would be instructive to dissect their anger to see if we can come away with some understanding of their issues.

But let’s be clear on something. Tea party members are aligned with the Republican Party—no matter what both sides say. Name me one tea partier that is supporting a Democrat or the president’s agenda. This is part of the perception problem each group is having—t

Afrikan community rally in support of Dr. Adelaide Sanford

Posted by SendMeYourNews on March 31, 2010 at 11:30pm

Community protest at the 52nd precinct in the Bronx, on Sunday March 28th.
Led by CEMOTAP the Afrikan community rallied in support of Dr. Adelaide Sanford(http://www.alscs.org/charter/vision/regent/), whose son David Sanford, dean of the Banneker Academy in Brooklyn, was assaulted by Bronx police.
The community demanded that all charges against Dean Sanford be dropped and the the police be charged instead.
(pictures courtesy of E V Tait, Jr)
Stay tuned for latest development...

Chicago-Midwest

HE WAS SO DANGEROUS- THEY HAD TO KILL HIM!!! - MIGHTY MEN OR MIGHTY MOUSE

Posted by Enoch Mubarak on March 31, 2010 at 2:41pm

What separates me from other voices is that I write in specificity and I talk in real time. In real-time the reader is the source that verifies the truth. The reader he or she is living in the moment of the happening.

DEAR BLACK AMERICA 2010
Below is a reply I received from a blog written March 29, 2010 at 1:32pm, Chicago time. The blog is titled GET ME UNDERCOVER BROTHER!

The following reply is written by the President/Founder of the MIGHTY MEN NETWORK http://mightypeople.ning.com/profiles/blogs/g

Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie

Posted by Marvin X on March 31, 2010 at 12:00am

Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie

The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apenmanship and parrotry enforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary; their ideas are spread by a corpus of state intellectuals, the academic and journalistic laureates of the neo-colonial establishment.
--Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind

The black bourgeoisie is a class of very sick people who g

Parable of War that is not War

Posted by Marvin X on March 30, 2010 at 1:27pm

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Parable of War that is Not War

Parable of War that is Not War

There are wars and there are not wars. There are mock battles, turkey fights full of sound and fury, signifying nothing--or maybe something, for there are motives and agendas far beyond the battle ground, motives and agendas of presidents, prime ministers, generals and war lords in near and distant lands.

Some of these war mongers we hear about, some we don't. In Afghanistan, major players have names like India, Pa

Black Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted by SendMeYourNews on March 30, 2010 at 11:00am

“Black Holocaust Remembrance Day” will be held this year at

1:00 pm, Saturday April 10, 2010 the New Horizon Mission Hall at 2207 Varnum Street at Eastern Ave.
(Near the Kaywood Theater) in Hyattsville, MD (outside Washington, DC)

We are inviting Educators, Scholars, Historians, Teachers, Students, Parents and Elders to attend this memorable event. We are also inviting the followers of the Honorable Silis Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to attend this event, as well as, mem

A Dialogue With Plato Negro on White Supremacy

Posted by Marvin X on March 29, 2010 at 10:37am

A Dialogue With Plato Negro on White Supremacy

Present:
Simone
Rashidah
Paradise
Ramal
Plato Negro
Location: Plato Negro's Library

Someone mentioned Richard Wright's Native Son.

Plato: Baldwin objected to Richard Wright's thesis that Bigger Thomas represented twenty million blacks who would one day strike out and murder to avenge their oppression.

Simone: I agree with him. To me, he was mentally ill, not thoughtful, intellectual. But in the Outsider, Wright gave us a more developed character with intelli

Parable of the Colored People

Posted by Marvin X on March 28, 2010 at 10:30pm

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Parable of the Colored People

Parable of Colored People

There was a world consumed by color. One man named DuBois called it the problem of the color line. In a place called Amirika there were people who lived behind the color curtain, also know as the Vail, the black belt and cotton curtain, also known as ghetto and da hood.

The world was divided between north and south on the basis of color, money and technical development. There was the northern cradle or white world and the

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

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Fable of the Donkey

Now Available: The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables and Fables by Marvin X

Parable of the Heart

Parable of the Poor Righteous Teacher

Parable of the Parrot

Parable of the Man Who Loved His Mama

The Journal of Pan African Studies Call for Poetry

The Journal of Pan African Studies Call for Poetry

Parable of the Madpoet

Parable of the Preacher's Wife

Friday, April 2, 2010

Parableof the Preacher's Wife

Parable of the Rabbit

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Tea-ed Off

Afrikan community rally in support of Dr. Adelaide Sanford

HE WAS SO DANGEROUS- THEY HAD TO KILL HIM!!! - MIGHTY MEN OR MIGHTY MOUSE

Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie

Parable of War that is not War

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Parable of War that is Not War

Black Holocaust Memorial Day

A Dialogue With Plato Negro on White Supremacy

A Dialogue With Plato Negro on White Supremacy

Parable of the Colored People

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Parable of the Colored People

Parable of the Man Who Left the Mountain

Parable of the A Students

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