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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
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Parable of the Good Children

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
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Thinking Out the Box: Message to the White Man


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

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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
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Parable of Man, Beasts, Ancestors and Nature







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
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Book Review: We Will Return in the Whirlwind




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
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Parable of the Drunk Man


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
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Chicago-Midwest

911 - STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING - LISTEN UP

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
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Parable of the City of God

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
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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

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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
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Two Poems for Marvin X Madpoet

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
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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.
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A Street Named Rashidah Muhammad

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
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Parables and Fables of Marvin X

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Parables and Fables of Marvin X














Parables and Fables of Marvin X

Contents

Fable of the Black Bird














Parable of A Real Woman




Plato Negro on the Cell Phone










\Parable of the Man With the Gun in Hand


















Parable of the Gangsta












Fable of the Rooster and the Hen








Parable of the Pit Bull











Parable of Black Man and Block Man













Fable of the Sleeping Lion












Parable of the Baby Carriage





Parable of the Woman in the Box




Parable of the Fire

Parable of the Basket









Parable of the Man Who Wanted to Die










Plato Negro on Suic
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A Healthy Debate

March 18, 2010

Raynard Jackson

As the debate over healthcare finally comes to an end, I have been amazed and almost embarrassed at how the Republicans have responded to the Democrats creative maneuverings to get the bill up for a vote. The Democrats have decided to use a parliamentary rule called reconciliation.

So, the Republican’s response? To whine and complain about how unfair the Democrats are being to the minority party. Republicans, STOP IT!! Grow a pair. Elections have consequences. So, if

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I Am John Coltrane

Wednesday, March 17, 2010




I Am John Coltrane

I am John Coltrane
not with horn
but pen
beyond words to silence
not sound
words sacred
profane obscene
no proper politically correct
beyond bourgeoisie culture police
revolutionary puritans
who say
don't say nigguh but kill nigguhs at every turn
turn holy in prison doing push ups after killing all nigguhs in the hood
don't say motherfucker
but fuck their mothers, daughters, sons and anything else under the sun
but don't say motherfucker
don't say bitch
while they are t
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Chicago-Midwest
Benjamin Jealous President of the NAACP is asking black Americans to fill out the arriving 2010 U.S. CENSUS FORMS - FORGET ABOUT IT!
Remember the past or repeat it

In the first Bush election they never acknowledged your vote or your participation and this time will be not different. When time arrives to vote step out of the shadows cast your vote and when Obama wins again they will feel your presence without knowing your location, exact numbers or stronghold.

Forget the hype of receiving more money
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Parable of the Baby Carriage

Tuesday, March 16, 2010



Parable of the Baby Carriage

There was a young couple arguing on the street, downtown Oakland. Two young girls were with them, one in a baby carriage and the other tagging along in silent terror. As they crossed the street, an old white woman was shouting at the young man to stop talking so disrespectfully to the woman who appeared to be his wife or partner, she was obviously the mother of the children, but it is not clear he was the father, more than likely he was the fat

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Parable of the Man With the Gun in Hand



Parable of the Man

With the Gun in Hand

Once there was a man with a gun in his hand; he came to a land and made the native people slaves. The natives had lived on the land since the world began, but now they were slaves. "And," said the man who came to the land, "they shall be slaves 'til they are in their graves."

The land was ripe with everything: diamonds and gold, wealth untold--the land was fit for Kings and Queens. But the man with the gun in his hand wanted everything.

The natives did not k

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