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Books by
Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America /
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
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By Marvin X (El Muhajir)
Not only has the sun set on the British
empire but the sons of her colonial slaves are out to avenge
their impoverished fathers and mothers. Yes, call them devils
for their evil desires and actions to seek retribution for
centuries of rape, mass murder, mutilation, and simple genocide.
During the four centuries of European
slavery, how many innocent men, women and children were
crucified in the name of Jesus and capitalism? When they toiled
in the sun of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, were they not
simple human beings whose only desire was to care for their
families and loved ones—how often did they even bother to
revolt against their enslavement for life?
But today the world appears utterly horrified
that the descendants of colonialism have decided to seek
vengeance in the name of their God and peoples, no matter what
the moderates, the uncle toms and uncle abdullahs, think of
their barbaric actions. Were not the Europeans barbaric in the
Congo, South Africa, in Arabia and India, in the Americas with
their black codes and slave catchers, lynching, raping of men,
women and children?
Did the Europeans and their colonial
collaborators ever think the day would come for Justice to raise
her hand and strike death blows into the hearts of the masters
as they went about their daily round—eating, drinking,
sporting, playing, working, praying?
The death angels don't care about any of
these goings on. Throughout the centuries of your oppressive
regimes in Africa, Arabia, India and the Americas, did you ever
give the subject peoples a day of respite, a moment to wipe the
sweat off their brow? You gave them nothing but more slavery,
suffering, and death.
And as you have done, so shall it be done
unto you.
Keep a stiff upper lip because you shall need
it as your cities crumble for the death angels march with no
mercy, a lesson they learned from you. The only difference is
that you claim to value life but the death angels care nothing
for life and there are no innocents in their world.
The moderates are mostly your puppets, your
colonial administrators who have benefited from the enslavement
of their people. What right to life do they deserve? Yes, those
who worship the beast shall be destroyed with the beast. Your
moderation is submission to continued enslavement and
colonialism—even your feigned religiosity is reactionary
poppycock. You are one billion Muslims, yet you cannot liberate
Palestine. To hell with your prayers and your pilgrimage to
Mecca. When you march to Jerusalem one billion strong, that is
the day Islam shall be redeemed from the devil, yes, from you
fake imams who preach mysticism while your people wallow in
poverty, disease, and ignorance.
You are glad to send your sons to Iraq as
suicide bombers because it is better they fight the
Crusaders than fight you and your reactionary regimes in Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, and places where you have
delivered your oil fields to the global bandits in exchange for
liquor and European women.
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speaking truth to govts.
By Marvin X
Jail. prison.
the big yard.
outside my door in the
hood.
the warden everywhere.
the snitches.
life in danger going to
the store.
will I make it back home.
bullets through living
room window.
funerals. what is prison.
a cell. a drive. a walk.
be careful what I say to
you. homeland security
is listening. what's new.
black codes been here.
jail is a state of mind. |
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Marvin X is the author of
In the Crazy House Called America, essays, and
Wish I Could Tell You the Truth,
essays, Black Bird Press. Contact him at
mrvnx@yahoo.com
posted 12 July 2005
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"Religion is what keeps the poor
from murdering the rich." Napoleon
Bonaparte
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Marvin X and His Parables
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Books by Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell
A film directed by Gini
Reticker
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
is a captivating new film by director Gini Reticker.
It exposes a different story angle for the largely
forgotten recent events of the women of Liberia
uniting to bring the end to their nation's civil
war. This film is amazing in the way it captivates
your attention from the earliest frames. It doesn't
shy away from showing footage of the violent events
that took place during the Liberian civil war. But
the main story of the film is that of
Leymah Gbowee
and the other women uniting, despite their religious
differences, to force action on the stalled peace
talks in their country. Using entirely nonviolent
methods, not only are the peace talks successful,
but Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, is
forced into exile leading to the first election of a
female head of state in Africa. The women of this
film are truly an inspiration and no one can fail to
be moved by the message of hope that comes through
clearly in this film. These are heroes that deserve
to be remembered and with Pray the Devil we are able
to do that, gaining both a knowledge of the history
we are ignorant of through archival footage and an
understanding of the leaders of this movement
through close-up interviews with the many women who
lead it. The film also offers a great soundtrack &
inspirational song- "Djoyigbe" by Angelique Kidjo &
Blake Leyh.—Amazon
Reviewer |
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Mighty Be Our Powers
How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
By Leymah Gbowee
As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country—and shattered Gbowee’s girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts—and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia’s ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace—in the process emerging as an international leader who changed history. Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to empowerment that will touch all who dream of a better world.—Beast Books / Pray the Devil Back to Hell |
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By Nidaa Khoury
Khoury's poetry is fired by belief in
the human and the spiritual at a time
when many of us feel unreal and often
spiritually hollow.—Yair
Huri, Ben-Gurion University
Written in water and ink, in between the
shed blood. Nidaa Khoury's poems take us
to the bosom of an ancient woman . . .
an archetype revived. The secret she
whispers is 'smaller than words.'—Karin
Karakasli, author, Turkey
Nidaa Khoury was born in Fassouta, Upper
Galilee, in 1959. Khoury is the author
of seven books published in Arabic and
several other languages, including The
Barefoot River, which appeared in Arabic
and Hebrew and The Bitter Crown,
censored in Jordan. The Palestinian poet
is studied in Israeli universities and
widely reviewed by the Arab press. The
founder of the Association of Survival,
an NGO for minorities in Israel, Khoury
has participated in over 30
international literary and human rights
conferences and festivals. Khoury is the
subject of the award-winning film, Nidaa
Through Silence. Currently a senior
lecturer at Ben-Gurion University,
Khoury's poem Portal to the Orient is
being produced by Sarab for Dance for
performance in Palestine. Book of Sins
introduces this important Middle Eastern
poet to the Caribbean and the Americas. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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