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
All Posts (5790)
Sort by
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
https://theblacklist.net/
