Why Do So-called Progressives Support Dictators

Why Do So-called Progressives Support Dictators

It is amazing to know the long time support many progressives have given to rotten, slimy dictators around the world. Of course there is often a time lag in catching up with the one time revolutionaries who eventually discard their revolutionary garb to don the persona of the brutal dictator, president for life.

The former revolutionary did indeed liberate his people but then somehow decided he is the new messiah of his "children" who must be ruled with an iron hand, even after he has thrown in the towel of the consent of the governed.

There is no need to call names for you know who these pitiful former revolutionaries are, who came into political power decades ago but only of late decide to institute the fundamental item on their revolutionary agenda: land reform. There are a plethora of personalities on the African Continent who fit this description, in Asia, Middle East, Europe and the Americas.

We support all truly radical regimes but condemn reactionary governments and the leadership that hides under the revolutionary banner.

We are amazed to see how these reactionary, corrupt, dictatorial bastards stick together, yes, like birds of a feather. African proverb says one white dog will not bite another white dog.

But what is more amazing is how many socalled American radicals and progressives will chime in with the rats of the world, and yet we know many of them have ulterior motives, yes, many pledge allegiance to the rats because they are paid to do so.

There are those radicals who take money to promote the propaganda machine of rotten dog, oppressive leaders around the world. No matter how brutal they are, no matter how full their dungeons are with opposition leaders, poets, playwrights, journalists, these sycophants continue kissing ass for a few bucks. Even when opposition leaders are murdered in broad daylight, the sycophant media magicians continue perpetuating the world of make believe.

From time to time the opposition forces in various countries must speak directly to American so-called progressives to stay out of their business. Work on your own revolution in the belly of the Beast, since it is clear you have no understanding nor desire to understand our condition.

We talk about ideological clarity that is beyond revolutionary romanticism and idealism, but when reality stares us in the face we run and hide behind rose colored glasses. At the present hour the president we championed, although there were wise brothers and sisters who warned us not to do so, has turned into an imperialist of the worse kind, and yet there are those who refuse to criticize the brother because he is a brother. What difference does it make if the hangman is black?

The universe is calling upon us to get in harmony or get off the planet. All fakism, As-Salaam Afakum, pseudo revolutionary personalities that cover their darkness with word magic and the assistance of sycophants, must be rejected. And those who support them must be exposed and rejected as well for selling out truth for a mess of pottage.
--Marvin X, Prime Minister of Poetry,
First Poet's Church
www.firstpoetschurch.blogspot.com

Crusader Hypocrisy

Crusader Hypocrisy in North Africa and the Middle East

The Crusaders have entered the freedom quagmire in North Africa and the Middle East. Oh, what a conundrum the Crusaders shall find themselves attempting to unravel. They have been caught off balance by the speed of events that their political and military strategists never imagined.

A single spark began in Tunisia and has now ignited a prairie fire from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. The American and European Crusaders run here and there in a useless effort to stop the tide of freedom raging in the lands, cherry picking a nation to support, when we know all of those neo-colonial regimes that Euro-American Crusaders have propped up for decades must and will fall into the dustbin of history, it is only a matter of time and time is running out with each passing day, each hour.

Why would the Crusades attack Libya but not Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia? Why Libya, or perhaps this is only a test case, a trial balloon to figure a strategy for the climax sure to come soon in Saudi Arabia when its people cry Allahu Akbar and defy the guns, tanks, planes, bullets and tear gas supplied by the Crusaders to prop up decadent rulers who have been complicit with the Crusaders to allow oil to flow to the West in a sick siphoning of a people's resources to benefit the few. Hence the present crisis.

And yet the sick irony is that the Crusaders care nothing about the cry for liberation, only how to continue their addiction to white supremacy with oil as the necessary byproduct, for white supremacy cannot survive without the petrochemical drug so vital to a military and in food production that is essentially oil based, full of herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers to the degree the food is grown in oil not earth, leading the people directly from the petrochemists to the pharmacists , in a slow dance of death for the ten percent who rule the deaf, dumb and blind eighty-five per cent.

The people cry for freedom and justice, echos the Eloquent Peasant of 4,000 years ago in Egypt. But these present day pharaohs were not like the pharaoh who was bewildered and bemused by the eloquence of that ancient peasant, these modern pharaohs are hard headed and hard hearted. A ruler should know his time is up at the moment his people unite and rise up against him, yet, with the backing of the Crusaders, these modern pharaohs will dance until the midnight hour, until every grain of sand has slipped to the bottom of the hour glass.

The Crusaders shall not be able to save them because they shall be too busy fighting fires on their turf, as their people also rise up in the name of Ma'at, freedom, justice, balance, reciprocity, truth.

It is indeed a lesson that the first African president of the Crusader America has now attacked his fatherland. Now we see the matter is far beyond color. Imperialism has no color, nor does neo-colonialism. We know it is far beyond religion as well, for are not the Muslim nations in bed with the Crusader? He has been the supplier of weapons for their leaders to oppress and suppress the people now rising up throughout the lands of the Middle East and North Africa.

Why haven't the Crusaders entered Yemen on the side of the people? Why did not the Fifth Fleet of the Crusader support the suffering people of Bahrain? What is this selective suffering that chose Qadafy as the villain when so many other villains run amok, committing mass murder of their people, not to mention the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank?

Why do we think the Palestinians shall not again rise up in unity for their long deprived nationhood? Yet, the Crusaders shall block them at every turn until it is too late, for the Apocalypse shall await them at the precipice. The modern pharaohs are in bed with the Zionists and the Crusaders, they all dance together in the den of iniquity that shall be ephemeral.
--Marvin X,
Prime Minister of Poetry,
First Poet's Church
3/23/11

The Rite of Spring Part 1

Message from the Pope of Poetry, First Poet's Church

Monday, March 21, 2011

Message from the Pope of Poetry, First Poet's Church

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Message from the Pope of Poetry, Imamu Amiri Baraka

The New Invasion of Africa

So it wd be this way

That they wd get a negro

To bomb his own home

To join with the actual colonial

Powers, Britain, France , add Poison Hilary

With Israeli and Saudi to make certain

That revolution in Africa must have a stopper

So call in the white people who long tasted our blood

They would be the copper, overthrow Libya

With some bullshit humanitarian scam

With the negro yapping to make it seem right (far right)

But that’s how Africa got enslaved by the white

A negro selling his own folk, delivering us to slavery

In the middle of the night. When will you learn poet

And remember it so you know it

Imperialism can look like anything

Can be quiet and intelligent and even have

A pretty wife. But in the end, it is insatiable

And if it needs to, it will take your life.

AB 3/21/411

www.firstpoetschurch.blogspot.com

I Am A Revolutionary

I am a revolutionary

Before man black

Muslim

Husband

Lover

Father

I am a revolutionary I am a Revolutionary

revolution or death

Whatever comes first

Don’t matter

Test me

Kill me and I shall return

Like Garvey

In the Whirlwind

haunt you

Curse you

Spit in your face

For your decadence

putrid life style

Of nothingness and dread

a stunted man woman child

Too pitiful to stand erect

Homo erectus

You rather slither snake like

Before Pharaoh and his magicians

Not me

Take me to your dungeons

Where humanity lives

brothers finally come together in unity

the black hole of Santa Rita County Jail

they show love for each other

they read and share all they have

zoo zoos and wham whams

gourmet meals they cook and beg you to eat

precious food they starve for each day

Spending the day searching cooking sharing

Raman noodles and Doritos into casserole

Divided shared for all

the black hole

you must shower your funk or die

They knew me

Passed me on the street selling books

Said they were high priced too

So I knew they passed by

I am a revolutionary

I teach in jail

Like on the street

no difference

A punk out here is a punk in there

A warrior here is a warrior in the dungeon

I am a revolutionary

I stand on the shoulders of George, Eldridge, Huey,

Booker, Alonzo Batin

Douimbia

Aaron Ali

Ali Sharif Bey

Brother Edward who raised the college generation single handed

Men unknown who stood up to the beast at every turn

I am a revolutionary

I fear nothing

Want nothing from you

Your money your women your drugs

Nothing

You cannot buy me

I am not for sell

You sold the last negro long ago

I am not the one

I am a revolutionary

Only warrior women can stand beside me

Women in the tradition of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Mae Mallory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Queen Mother Moore, Ella Collins, Clara Muhammad, Betty Shabazz, Angela Davis

Stand with me warrior women

To the death or to the life

I am a revolutionary

I bring forth a new world order

With the consent of the governed

No dictatorship

No presidents for life

Kings

Prime ministers for life

No tribal domination

No religiosity

Only plain truth

Simple for a child to understand

No pyramid scheme

No trickle down Voodoo economics

Let power trickle up

Bottom rail top

Revolution

I am a revolutionary

I am beyond your tricks and games

Your slimy schemes and dreams

Of delay postponement pseudo stability

No delay

No stalling

Up against the wall motherfucker

Baraka said

This is revolution

I am a revolutionary.

--Marvin X

4/8/11

Navigating the perilous Mental Landscape

Navigating the perilous Mental Landscape

Like the earthquake in Japan, man too is in mental motion, a mind quake of the most devastating degree that is rocking his mental equilibrium to the core!

We must be aware of the times and what must be done. A blind man named Ray Charles told us "the world is in an uproar, the danger zone is everywhere...." And so it is, ancestor Ray, there is turbulence in the land and in man, woman and children. As the earth enters another 25,000 year cycle of history with the coming New Age of high spiritual consciousness, there are many who remain deaf, dumb and blind to present and future events, even though the news is full of rapidly changing events in the global village. One would need to be in worse shape than Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder not to see the earth is in transformation, even Nature itself. The ice is melting, the sea rising, the forests burning, earthquakes and tsunamis , drought, famine, pestilence, in diverse places, just as Jesus predicted.

Apparently, many do not believe what Jesus said even when they see events he predicted before their very eyes, on the news, Twitter, Facebook, Cable TV and elsewhere. He said mother would be against child and child against mother and father. Did he not say brother would be against brother and sister against sister? And do we not see this in our social relations today.

It is crystal clear to me we are in times in which a friend is no longer a friend, a wife and husband no longer wife and husband. There is no love between them. Husbands and wives say the horrible things to each other. Daughters and sons say the most wretched things to their parents, often when the parents are helping them.

But when the danger zone is everywhere, no one, no relationships are exempt from the turmoil sweeping the old order out and ushering in the New Era. But there is an almost organic relationship between the earth quaking and the minds of men, women and children becoming totally unbalanced. In this time of radical change of Nature and man, those with no understanding shall become unglued, losing their fragile mental equilibrium or simply tripping out. Ultimately, they become a danger to themselves and others and must be committed, for they are not the person we knew only yesterday. Today they are a total stranger who does not know us, cannot even recognize us, yet we have known them since childhood. They could be a sibling yet they do not act like there is any blood relationship between us. We behave like total strangers.

It could be parent/child relationships that come to such a low point children will sue parents or visa versa. In short the love is gone. Amiri Baraka tells us in his play A Black Mass, "Where the souls print should be there is only a cellulose pouch of disgusting habits...."

As we walk the streets be very careful what you say to people, for they are on edge, on the precipice, ready to strike out at the slightest perceived negative incident, or wrong word uttered.
Yes, they are ready to kill, so be aware as you make your daily round.

The political/economic atmosphere is charged with venom, but it is misplaced aggression, for no one is going after the bankers, the loan sharks, the Wall Street financiers who were casino gamblers with the wealth of the people, stealing 13 trillion dollars in the sub prime housing scam.
And yet hardly a banker is in jail, meanwhile 2.4 million mostly poor are incarcerated for petty crimes, additionally they suffer drug abuse and mental illness, not to mention lack of proper legal representation at the time of their trials. The only white man doing time is the one who stole from the rich, not the poor. Those who robbed the poor are yet receiving multimillion dollar bonuses while 30 million workers are unemployed and millions are now homeless.

It is this atmosphere that is so unsettling to the mental state of those who were already suffering stress from the general hostile environment, from bad food, the media dispensing
information from the world of make believe and promoting the addiction to white supremacy conspicuous consumption

How do we move from problem to solution, from addiction to recovery, from sickness to healing?
The Buddhists says knowledge plus the right action. We must first understand the time and what must be done. These are perilous times, very dangerous, thus one must tip through the tulips, through the mind fields that lay before us, behind us, to the right and to the left.

We must practice eternal vigilance and stay on guard against being deceived. There are those who wish to deceive us so that we remain victims of the slave system. They will not tell us all the institutions are exhausted, political, economic, educational, religious, marital. None of these shall continue with business as usual. They must and shall undergo radical structural change, if not simply thrown into the dustbin of history where they belonged long ago.

Those not prepared for radical change shall be blown by the wayside where they shall inhabit the lower realms of an animal existence until they die or recover from savagery and come into the era of civility and spirituality beyond religiosity.

Those who are a danger to themselves and others will need to be confined to a program of long term recovery, a rehabilitation of their disgusting habits, namely greed, ego, pride, lust, arrogance, and other deadly sins, and most importantly the inability to practice freedom, justice and equality, constitutionally unable to share the wealth and practice democracy or the consent of the governed.

The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end, or rather what goes around comes around. What we are witnessing and experiencing is not linear time but circular, for we shall continue, but only those who are able to jump out of the box of the old structures into the new.

The fearless ones, they shall be successful. Those not motivated by the illusions of the monkey mind shall be successful. We pray for the others who persist in their inordinancy, blindly wandering on, as the Qur'an says.
--Marvin X
4/7/11

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US Monkey Mind Media

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and the US Monkey Mind Media

Secretary of State Clinton dropped a bombshell on the US Monkey Mind Media when she declared Al Jazeera News is far superior to the US Monkey Mind Media that can only perpetuate the white supremacy world of make believe. We welcome the Secretary to the real world, a world that transcends the airless room Americans live in, as James Baldwin once said.

And yet the American media confessed its sins shortly after 9/11, when it declared that it was guilty of keeping Americans ignorant of world affairs, thus Americans had no clue why someone would want to attack her so viciously as happened on 9/11. They are so ignorant of history and current events that they could not understand there are people who are tired of having their drawers pimped off by the capitalists swine corporations, blood suckers of the poor around the world- yes, the American pimps who support the worse regimes on the planet to insure the American way of life, or death!

The Monkey Mind Media is the main vehicle that perpetuates the world of make believe by diverting attention to meaningless chatter, sport and play, entertainment, news about the Hollywood stars, rap artists and other garbage that has absolutely nothing to do with the real world, including the 30 million unemployed that shall remain unemployed for the foreseeable future. The America people are ignorant of the fact 13 trillion dollars of housing wealth was sucked from them by the Wall Street casino gamblers in cahoots with the Federal Reserve. And yet not one banker has gone to jail, meanwhile 2.4 million men and women languish in jails and prisons for petty crimes compared to the thieves in suits and ties.

No, the Monkey Mind American media will tell you nothing of truth. And its pitiful excuse of possible danger in reporting on the ground about events in North Africa and the Middle East is so lame. All they need do is use indigenous people to report rather than send their white faced journalists to the scene so they will indeed get their asses whupped as did CNN's Anderson Cooper. Didn't the Monkey Mind Media learn from the 60s riots and rebellions in America when they suddenly discovered they needed North American African journalists and reporters to cover events in the hood?

The truth is that the Monkey Mind Media ain't about truth, but only the spread of lies and misinformation to divert attention from the daily robbery in broad daylight of the American people and people around the world. The Monkey Mind Media is thus a critical instrument in perpetuating the white world of make believe that is on its death bed. And this time Dr. Nigger will not save you when you hit code blue.
--Marvin X

Oakland's Youth Revolution

Oakland's Youth Rebellion at Academy of da Corner

Marvin X's (Plato Negro) Academy of da Corner is probably the most dangerous classroom in the world. It is located at the epic center of Oakland's crossroads, 14th and Broadway, downtown, across the street from City Hall and Frank Ogawa Plaza. The area is a frequent site for protest rallies and rebellion. Academy of da Corner was the location of Oscar Grant riots, when youth took over the area and other streets of Oakland to protest the murder trial and light sentencing of the BART police official who executed young Oscar Grant on New Year's Day. Youth who often stop at the Academy participated in the rallies and civil disturbance (who disturbed whom?) that followed the 2 year sentence given the officer for murder under the color of law.

A few doors from Plato Negro's Academy is the Footlocker that was looted, and next door is the law office of Attorney Walter Riley who was beaten by the Oakland Police as he tried to enter his office at the height of the civil unrest. The OPD didn't bother to stop the looters as they liberated some needed pairs of shows at Footlocker.

Yesterday as Marvin met students and writers at his academy, a march of youth from East Oakland ended in the middle of 14th and Broadway, closing down the intersection to protest a recent gang injunction that prohibits gang members from gathering and associating within a proscribed area. The injunction mainly affects black and Latino youth. The sit down in the middle of the intersection was mostly Latino youth from the Fruitvale Area, although they were accompanied by several movement folks. After their sit down in the middle of the street that stopped all traffic, they moved to City Hall for a rally that featured Angela Davis.

An Oakland Tribune reporter asked Marvin X what he thought about the gathering? He replied, "This is great, in harmony with events around the world that are shaking up the old order. I am honored to see the youth taking power over their lives. I am so happy to see they can do something other than walk around like ducks with pants sagging off their behinds. As per the gang injunction, it should be directed against the Oakland police gang, this is the gang that brings in drugs and guns. We know this is a common occurrence below the border, so why wouldn't we expect similar behavior by the OPD? They have a history of drug dealing, money laundering, shakedowns and false arrests, also planting false evidence. Who are the real gangsters? Oakland has a revolutionary tradition so I am elated to see youth in the tradition!" The reporter took notes and walked away. Nearby was a full contingent of OPD officers who accompanied the marchers from East Oakland and stood by patiently while they blocked traffic and proceeded to rally in front of City Hall.

Marvin X attended the rally with one of his top students, Jermaine. Another student came to met The Teacher, Jasmin Conner, a young author featured on the front page of this week's Oakland Post. A poet, novelist, essayist, she will participate in the Women's History Month event sponsored by Bay Area Black Authors and the Post Newspaper Group, Saturday, March 19, 3-6pm at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th Street at Franklin. Other women poets, authors, actors in the March 19th event are Jerri Lange, Ayodele Nzingha, Tureada Mikell, Phavia Kujichagulia, devorah major, Aries Jordan, Mechelle LaChaux.

Scores rally at Oakland City Hall to protest proposed Fruitvale gang injunction

By Scott Johnson
Oakland Tribune

Members of the Asian Pacific Islanders Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership protest at...

OAKLAND -- Several hundred East Bay high school students organized and led a winding march through Oakland's Fruitvale district on Friday afternoon before holding a peaceful two-hour rally at City Hall to protest a proposed gang injunction.

"We feel the injunction is a way to push us out of our communities," said Stephanie Olage, 17, a San Leandro High School student who came to Oakland to support the protest. "This is affecting our whole community, not just the gang members."

Oakland City Attorney John Russo has pushed hard to get the injunction, and next Wednesday a judge will decide whether to impose a preliminary version which would pave the way for a more robust order later on. If it passes, some 40 alleged Norteño members will have restrictions placed on their movements within the 400 square blocks of the Fruitvale district.

Carrying signs, shouting slogans and songs, the students joined a large group of adults on the steps of City Hall at 4 p.m. A succession of speakers then took the stage, saying the injunction unfairly targeted Latino youth, cast a criminal pall over the neighborhood and was a waste of tax dollars.

"Instead of an injunction, we want better after-school programs, better education facilities, things that will make a positive difference in the community," said Aurora Castellanos, 20, a junior at UC Berkeley who grew up in the Fruitvale neighborhood and believes the injunction could unfairly target her family, who migrated here from Mexico.

Michael Siegel, an attorney representing a coalition of interests that is opposing the injunction in court, also attended the rally as a "legal observer."

"Police just dismiss these guys as irretrievable, but to me, it's a policy choice," Siegel said. "Are you going to devote resources to incarceration or prevention?"

Siegel said the injunction is overbroad and vague, and could lead to abuse down the road.

"It could result in a lot of people being surveilled," he said. "My concern is that the police will err on the side of over-inclusion."

Protesters howled their support of the succession of speakers at the rally. Distrust of the police was a constant theme.

"Injunctions Against Police, Not People," read one sign. "Fight Like An Egyptian," read another.

"The police are shooting us in the back," shouted Ruben Leal, one of the 40 young men on the injunction list, to wild applause and shouts of support from the crowd. "You think they're gonna make an exception for me?"

Leal was referring to the exceptions made for curfew violations in special circumstances like commuting to work, or emergencies.

The possibility of the injunction taking effect loomed large, however.

"We'll just have to get more people out on the streets," said Olage.

"I think it's a good thing," said Sgt. Arturo Bautiste, an Oakland policeman who patrols East Oakland. "The violence is out of control in part of the community. I think the injunction has a lot of community support."

Can You Feel the Spirit?

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Can You Feel the Spirit?

Can You Feel the Spirit?
Can you feel the spirit
in the air in the hair
people dancing in the street
singing freedom songs sea to sea
what a wonderful world
a time to be alive
to breathe again
stand tall not stunted
men and women
hail to the youth
invincible
challenging the kings
presidents for life
lying in front of tanks
repelling bullets tear gas
all power to the people
let there be freedom in the lands
in the homes
let the women be free of abuse
physical, verbal, emotional
let the men be free to be men
not oppressors of women and children
let the oppressors flee to the moon
or anywhere but here
let there be peace on earth
let the wealth be shared
no hunger in the world
no thirst
no disease
no wage slavery
no ignorance
no conspicuous consumption
no world of make believe
no white supremacy
no dogmatic religiosity
let the people be divine
let the earth be divine
it is time
it is time.

Let the spirit move you
to higher ground
to minds above animal
and yet animals love
who is really the beast
or less than beast
animals love

Let the spirit move you.
Jump out the box of negrocities
wretched habits of the worse kind
that cripple the mind
back to the cave days

Let the spirit shake you
make you shout
talk in tongues
see the spirit working
better listen to that voice
the precious sound of God
talking.
--Marvin X
2/27/11

America's White Revolution

America's White Revolution? Is America in the birth pains of revolution, of joining the struggle of people around the world for social and economic justice? What is the end game of the Tea Party goers and the unions struggling for their definition of social economic democracy? Will there inevitably be a clash between the unionists and workers on the Left and the Tea Party Constitutionalists on the Right? Or will they merge into the American White Revolution? Events are moving fast, from the Middle East to Wisconsin, Ohio, California and elsewhere. And now Wall Street is under attack, hub of global finance and imperialism. Ultimately the General Strike is in order to close America down, to bring her to her knees and seize the means of production and all institutions that deprive the people of their human rights. It is time to reclaim the wealth from the blood suckers of the poor. We know dissatisfaction brings change, real change. The unemployed, the wage slave workers and other marginalized people will inevitably reach the breaking point. As the ruling class strengthen their stranglehold on the necks and backs of the middle and lower class, the more possibility for revolution with the great possibility that other ethnic minorities will join the liberation struggle. Sam Anderson has called for more North American Africans and Indigenous people to join the battle at Wall Street, that ancient slave mart that is yet a slave mart. As in the Middle East and North Africa, things will hit the fan in America when youth take to the streets, suffering marginalization, high unemployment, homelessness and mental depression. The feeling of nothingness and dread shall propel them into forward motion of the radical kind. The workers, unemployed, students, artists, intellectuals, and religious communities shall see the need for unity and will merge their agendas for the greater good. When the people refuse to accept wage slavery and the concomitant world of make believe perpetuated by the media magicians and the Center Right Democratic and Republican parties in league with the military/corporate complex, the American White Revolution will begin. We should expect the reactionaries to mount the counter attack with state police power that may approach events in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, outright mass murder under the color of law, mass incarcerations utilizing the terrorist laws under Homeland Security. The 700 people arrested this past weekend is a clear sign the police will need to get it right and decide what side they are on. Are they part of the problem or part of the solution. Just as the military in Egypt had to decide, the police of America must join the struggle or go down with the reactionaries. They cannot defend the state and the filthy capitalist swine. Their duty is to protect the people. The Right will attempt to defeat the masses to continue the regime of the American neo-slave system. But a people united cannot be defeated. Fanon taught that all de-colonization is successful. The reactionaries will be forced to put down their butcher knives in the face of people power. They will be forced to share the wealth, to open the coffers of the rich, the financial and corporate bandits and distribute the wealth stolen from the labor of the poor and middle class who have long suffered from the greedy blood suckers of the poor and working class. With a united people practicing eternal vigilance, the corporate and Wall Street bandits shall be forced to end their hoarding of the wealth they hoodwinked and bamboozled from the workers and poor; the wage slavery, the pyramid scheme loans of the housing industry, the wretched outdated white supremacy curriculum in the schools, the poor devitalized food of the petro-chemical industry and the pharmaceutical directed health care system, dominated by the insurance companies, even under President Obama's health plan that was a capitulation to the bandits. We smell a fresh breath of air blowing in the winds, yes, the east wind is blowing west. We think white people will be forced to stand from their stunted position, backs broken by the bloodsuckers of the poor, the working poor and middle class. North American Africans have long suffered a stunted life, full of poverty, ignorance and disease, even the middle class live in the world of make believe, traumatized by the hostile environment and addicted to conspicuous consumption. So we see the great possibility White America and North American Africans may see their way to Liberation Square, and if necessary, in the manner of the Egyptians, lay their blankets in front of tanks and take a nap, daring the tank driver to run them over, for their best poet told them not long ago: even a tank driver must serve somebody, must answer to somebody. --Marvin X 4/5/11

Friday, March 4, 2011

Reply to Marvin X from Rudolph Lewis on the American White Revolution

Rudy:

Dream on dreamer. If you wake up, you're hear the voice of the ancestors, "The worse is yet to come . . . we ain't nowhere near daylight."

Toppling a dictator and replacing it with an exceedingly wealthy military elite does not a revolution make.

Loving you madly, Rudy

Marvin X:

Rudy, you must look into the deep structure of things, far beyond the surface. When the husband beats a pregnant wife, this doesn't mean the baby won't be born. There may be some damage to the fetus but that baby is coming out for we know how much violence the woman is able to withstand, including the act of delivery itself. So we only know we are seeing things people predicted around 2012, a universal phenomenon that is beyond the imagination, and yes, we ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until the boys and girls rise up in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere on the oil lands and lanes. Wait til gas is ten dollars a gallon and a lemon five dollars. Just wait til the midnight hour.

Rudy:

Marvin, you're right: I do not know about the "deep structure of things." I do have my failings. But I suppose if I am expert at anything it is the nature of white people in America. I do wonder whether the same God who made my people made them. And if he did, what was he thinking: they have been a pestilence on the face of the earth. We need to have serious talk with His divine ways.

Let me be a prophet for a moment. As soon as the working class whites settle this matter with the Wisconsin governor, however it ends, they will be back talking about the intrusion of "niggers" in Milwaukee and Madison. Tell me, how do you think Walker got into office. I'll tell you: on a racist tip. These whites falling back into the pack of the poor thought the governor was going to take the war only to the Negroes. And what did they discover belatedly, it's gonna be class warfare and the poor whites and the marginal middle class whites, they too will be a sacrifice to the Koch brothers and other such wealthy bullies.

But this lesson will be short-lived as I suggested. As soo as these working class whites can they will betray the blacks for a farthing. That's a centuries old pattern. let us learn our history.

Hold out no hope for the struggle of black and white together, at least not in this decade.

Loving you madly, Rudy

Marvin X:

We can see from the Middle East that Arab zenophobia of Black Africans has tainted their freedom struggle. Yet this has been a long simmering problem in the Arab world just as it has been intractable and pervasive in the White Supremacy world of the West, especially in America. Thus, it must be clearly understood that liberation without recovery from the addiction to white supremacy, including Arab racism and American racism, will be short lived. As DuBois said, the problem in America is the color line, but we can expand this globally. Farakhan once said wherever he went on the planet earth the black man was on the bottom. When Cynthia McKinney was jailed in Israel she found Africans filled the jail, and we know the racial demographics of American gulags.

Without a global detox and recovery from the addiction to white supremacy in all its forms, and it is cunning and vile, surfacing its head in all religions and economic systems, there shall be no real peace in the world. Racism must be attacked in the Masjed, Church, temple, and all social institutions before the New Man and Woman can stand tall in the sun, racism and gender discrimination are pervasive in the global village. The new consciousness shall not function with any residue of racism and sexism.

We must note the Type II White Supremacy Dr. Nathan Hare speaks about that is the Black addiction to white supremacy mythology. Thus all forms of white supremacy must be eradicated before the modern world will be truly and thoroughly liberated.

Rudy:

Marvin, I speak that which I know and that which I don't know I excuse myself. I wrestled with the situation of Libya for days, reading and listening to as much as I could find before I finally posted the Pan-African piece.

http://www.nathanielturner.com/libyagettingitrightpanafrican.htm

But usually I post several points of view rather than one in that I am so far away from the scenes of counter-revolution. The corporate media is of little help nor is PBS (now under attack by federal defunding). Liberals fear any clarity of things on the ground. The truth I know is somewhere in the mix.

I shy away from ideology. I know with a certainty that foreign wars do not serve the American poor, to paraphrase MLK. We have two in the Mid-East already and an undeclared class war going on here in America. I hope Obama is not fool enough to be suckered into another Mid-East war now recommended by the Republicans and other imperial nuts.

White Americans are a strange breed and have little restraint when it comes to their racial prejudices. We are in the Age of the Neo-Confederacy, that is, white Americans are ever ready to shoot themselves in the foot to spite their face. Liberation is faraway from the dawn. Counter-revolutionatries are on the march and winning.

Loving you madly, Rudy

The American Beast in the Middle East

The American Beast in the Middle East

When we examine the deep structure of events in North Africa and the Middle East, we must come to understand that America is the primary reason the oppressive regimes in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman have continued their wickedness for decades. It is billions in America military aid that has gone to stem internal threats rather than external. Many of these nations have participated in American state terrorism, torturing not only their own citizens who sought liberation, but serving as dungeons for the behavior modification of so-called Muslim fundamentalists.

The American beast is thus directly responsible for the long suffering of the Middle Eastern masses now demanding freedom. Of course America has her strategic interests, namely oil and the defense of Israel. For these objectives, she conspired in the oppression of the millions of North African and Arab peoples. Thus she cannot be an honest broker, her hands are tainted with the blood of martyrs.

Whatever political institutions the people decide, whether secular or Islamic, it is no business of America, her political/economic interests be damned. Who is she to determine the destiny of other human beings in other lands, especially after her track record of wretchedness abroad and at home? There are presently 2.4 million persons incarcerated in the American gulags, Constitutional wards of the American slave system.

It would be wise to give a general amnesty to all prisoners, since the majority of them are petty criminals, i.e., economic criminals, of which 90% suffered drug abuse at the time of their arrests. Furthermore, perhaps half are dual diagnosed, suffering drug abuse and mental illness, to say nothing of the glaring fact that too many lacked proper legal representation.

The American beast should immediately pull out of all nations in Africa and the Middle East since her hands are tainted along with those of all the petty tyrants in the area, the sheiks, presidents for life, kings and prime ministers. As they are forced from the scene of history, the American beast must depart as well. But we know the nature of the Beast is to linger, to transform itself into another persona of beneficence, yet wickedness shall linger in the deep structure, for we know political/economic interests outweigh any honest desire for democracy.

--Marvin X

3/1/11