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Nathan Hare
The Black Anglo-Saxons /
The Miseducation of the Black Child /
The Endangered Black Family / Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood *
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Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America /
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
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Every Wednesday, 6-7:30PM,
133 Golden Gate
Marvin X
and the Last Poets
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The Meaning
of Black Reconstruction
By Marvin
X
How shall we repair the black mind? Shall we
fill it with African culture, religion, politics, economics?
What African culture shall serve as a model for the North
American African? Where in Africa is African culture working for
the African?
Egypt, an uncle tom, reactionary Arab regime,
sitting atop ten thousand years of African culture without a
clue how to make it function in the modern world, certainly not
to the extent that it can be a force in liberating the Egyptians
out of poverty, ignorance, and disease. South Africa, a
revolution gone astray, essentially a neocolonial regime, with
the white man playing possum, the blacks still landless and in
dire straits economically.
West Africa and the Congo, full of AIDS and
bands of mad baby warriors taking orders from OG criminal gangs
in search of diamonds, gold, and other minerals sought by the
West, who each day return as naked colonial powers in the guise
of peace keepers as the French are doing this very moment in the
Congo and Liberia.
The obvious failure of African culture is the glaring fact that
we are in America! What role did African culture play in getting
us to America? We know that it was human culture that got us
here, in the form of greed, lust for power, conspiracy with the
enemies of Africa on the part of the ruling class, that elite
Colin Powell, Connie Rice type African leadership, running dogs
for imperialism and pax Americana.
So we must understand clearly the dangers of African culture in
the reconstruction of the minds of North American Africans. Of
course the values of Maat are valid and true, if we use them, or
even the seven principles, if we use them and stop buying
Hallmark Kwanzaa cards for the seven day trip into African
mysticism, then return to the insanity of Americanism. We now
have big degrees, big houses, big bank accounts, big mega
churches, but our behavior reflects brains the size of mustard
seeds.
We behave like savages in our big houses. We drive alone
through the streets in our big cars without a friend to visit.
We drink expensive alcohol until it takes us out at a young age,
fifty and sixty. Yet we claim sanity? We claim civility? We are
horrified when we see pictures of African children toting guns,
but we do nothing about the toting of guns and the murderous
behavior of North American African youth!
And yes, just as the diamond hunters are the
number one employer of African youth, the dope man is the number
one employer of our youth coast to coast, from the cities to the
country hamlets in deepest south. Still we claim sanity as a
people. Imagine, we are the tenth richest nation in the world.
But we hardly have a proper restaurant in any major city. Our
soul food has lost the taste of soul but is more like salsa,
with Mexican cooks being employed because they are cheaper and
more reliable, we're too busy to get to work. Yet, we claim
sanity. Of course this is called denial. It is the reason even
though we make the doctor available, we don't make the
appointment.
Finally, Black Reconstruction should be about the healing of
ourselves with whatever tools are functional in today's world,
whether such tools come from Africa, America or China. Let us
use any means necessary to come out of this morass, this
conundrum, this precipice of despair and anxiety that is
relentless and will not wither away until we do the right thing.
Sun Ra taught me, "The Creator got things fixed: if you
don't do the right thing, you can't go forward and you can't go
backward." And so here we are in the new millennium, stuck
on stupid like super glue on our asses, wondering whether to be
or not to be an African, to be or not to be an American, when we
should seize the best of both worlds and discard the rest into
the dustbin of history and reactionary mysticism.
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Parable of the Cellphone (Marvin X)
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The Wisdom of Plato Negro:Parables/Fables By Marvin
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The Great Divergence
America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can
Do about It
By Timothy
Noah
For the past three decades, America has steadily
become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes
are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of
Americans collect almost 20% of the nation’s
income—more than double their share in 1973. We have
less equality of income than Venezuela, Kenya, or
Yemen. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms
"the Great Divergence" has until now been treated as
little more than a talking point, a club to be
wielded in ideological battles. But it may be the
most important change in this country during our
lifetimes—a sharp, fundamental shift in the
character of American society, and not at all for
the better. The income gap has been blamed on
everything from computers to immigration, but its
causes and consequences call for a patient,
non-partisan exploration.
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The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story
of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
By Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years the dominant metaphor for understanding markets and government has been the machine. Liu and Hanauer view democracy not as a machine, but as a garden. A successful garden functions according to the inexorable tendencies of nature, but it also requires goals, regular tending, and an understanding of connected ecosystems. The latest ideas from science, social science, and economics—the cutting-edge ideas of today—generate these simple but revolutionary ideas: (The economy is not an efficient machine. It’s an effective garden that need tending. Freedom is responsibility. Government should be about the big what and the little how. True self interest is mutual interest. |
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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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Ancient African Nations
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