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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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Nigguh Please
By Marvin X
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African American leaders
including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) [are] calling
for rap stars, hip-hop artists and everyone
else to stop using the offensive word. They
endorsed an NAACP campaign to "just say 'no'
to the N-word." "Activists
urge boycott of the 'N-word': Black leaders
mount campaign over Michael Richards'
comments. But others say banning the word
goes too far."
LaTimes |
The black culture police are at it
again, lead running dog is Rev. Jesse Jackson, perhaps
the most hypocritical culture policeman on the scene—especially
after leading president Clinton in prayer over Monica
while himself engaged in extramarital shenanigans. I
can't take Jesse Jackson with his twisted mouth (from
lying) pontificating on moral issues while he is the
most immoral of men, even pimping the blood of MLK, Jr.
The culture police continue to focus
on the N word as in Nigguh or Nigger, depending on
whether one is into Ebonics or Euronics. Now Nigguh/Nigger
has become a billion dollar word, thanks to rappers. It
is used around the world on the rap scene and used by
the multicultural hip hop generation. Yes, a white boy,
Asian, Latino or others can be called nigguh. Language
is fluid and dynamic, not static, thus, definitions of
words, connotations and denotations change with time.
The conservative cultural police are
stuck in a time warp, suffer cultural lag and other
psycho pathologies. They want to deal with surface
structure rather than deep structure issues. They abhor
the term “motherfucker” while they fuck their mothers
and daughters, even sons. They abhor the term nigguh
because they are the real nigguhs, faking like they
black. As James Brown says in one of his songs, "Talkin
Black but living negro."
As a writer, I am opposed to
censorship in any way, for any reason. Nigguh is one of
the most powerful words in the American language,
certainly in the language of North American Africans,
and it's silly to think we are going to stop using the N
word--I am not, so Nigguh please tell the culture police
to kiss my black nigguh ass.
If there were people in my audience
talking or heckling me, I would/will tell them to get
their black nigguh asses out my concert, or come up to
the mike and take over, since it is obviously their show
and they have something important to say to the
audience.
It is time for political correctness
to enter the dustbin of history. Call a spade a spade
and stop tweeking. How in the hell can we get mad at the
white boy when we use nigguh every day of our lives? And
when we ain't using nigguh, for sure we are acting like
nigguhs, talkin loud, saying nothing--or more precisely
doing nothing. Nigguh, please!
Marvin X just released his
book of essays on consciousness,
Beyond
Religion, Toward Spirituality. Available
from Black Bird Press, 11132 Nelson Bar Road, Cherokee
CA 95965. 280 pages, $19.95.
posted 29 November 2006
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) / Gil Scott-Heron
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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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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