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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The Post
Black Negro
By Marvin X
he ain't black, never was
his mama wasn't black
some colored lady from mississippi
not black
not to him
when she served miss ann
not black in the cotton field
yellin for his black ass to hurry up youngin
not black when she sent him to college to be
a man
not black man just man
be human
love everybody and get ahead in life
so he became a success
hid from the black girls in college
did mama tell him that in the cotton field
tell him to hate his sisters
don't lie on mama post-black negro
don't lie
you just dreamed of white girls in the
cotton patch
wanted masta's daughter but knew he would
lynch yo ass
so you waited til you got up south
got smart read two books on whiteness and
crossed over jordan
wouldn't join the BSU too black for you
you multicultural now
no more collard greens in yo canning jar
you crossed where mama never told you to go
no nigguhs in yo world
no negroes
no coons
no diggaboos
no burnt matches
you did it all by yo self
came on the slave ship by yo self didn't you
you was the only sardine on board
even had a restroom just for you
no black history month for you
world history is yo thing
european history really
want nothing to do with Africa, Asia, the
Americas
that's a black thang
ain't into that shit
nigguh history, hell no
we is americans 100%
we is citizens
don't know why we renew voting rights
whites don't
chicanos don't
why us blacks
that's why i ain't claimin black
too inconvenient being black
complications
contradictions
depictions
reflections
cross over and love everybody
leave dem nappy headed girls alone
don't want no nappy headed kids
don't care if I went to Yale and Stanford
Harvard and Princeton
I don't see color
I'm beyond such a thing
this is the post black world
get hipped.
We got Alambama for president
see he ain't really black
he African and white
that ain't black that's . . . post black
he american like bush and hillary
imperialist too
will send troops to Iran and Pakistan
will hunt ben laden like bush didn't
will prove his post blackness
so you too.
blond that weave
cross the line and be right for the new
times
still stuck in blackness
going nowhere
we american so like it or leave it
don't call me black we
go fight.
22 June 2010
Source;
http://Academy of da Corner |
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Henry Louis
“Skip” Gates, Jr., Ph.D. (born September 16, 1950)
is an American literary critic, educator, scholar,
writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first
African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary
degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and
development of academic institutions to study
black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give
the
Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his
"distinguished intellectual achievement in the
humanities." The lecture resulted in his 2003 book, The
Trials of Phillis Wheatley.
As the host of the
2006 and 2008
PBS television miniseries
African American Lives, Gates explored the genealogy
of prominent African Americans. Gates sits on the boards
of many notable arts, cultural, and research
institutions. He serves as the
Alphonse Fletcher
University Professor at
Harvard University, where he is Director of the
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American Research.
Michael Kinsley referred to him as "the nation's
most famous black scholar."[1]
However he is criticized as non-representative of Black
people by prominent African-American scholars such as
Molefi Asante,
John Henrik Clarke, and
Maulana Karenga. . . .
On July 16, 2009,
Gates returned home from a trip to China to find the
door to his house jammed. His driver attempted to help
him gain entrance. A passer-by called police reporting a
possible break-in and a
Cambridge police officer was dispatched. The
resulting confrontation resulted in Gates being arrested
and charged with disorderly conduct. Prosecutors later
dropped the charges.The incident spurred a politically
charged exchange of views about race relations and law
enforcement throughout the United States. The arrest
garnered national attention after the President declared
that the police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates. The
President eventually extended an invitation to both
Gates and the officer involved to share a beer with him
at the White House.[24]
On March 9, 2010,
Gates claimed on the
Oprah Winfrey Show that he and Sgt. James Crowley,
the arresting officer in the Cambridge incident, share a
common ancestor.—Wikipedia
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Black Scholars in
Crisis?: A Conversation with Asa Hilliard /
Britannica Negro 1910
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Henry Louis
Gates' Dangerously Wrong Slave History—Professor Gates’ selective storytelling and slanted use
of history paints a very different picture than does the
collective scholarship of hundreds of historians over
the last fifty years or so. A learned man who commands
enormous resources and unparalleled media attention, why
would Gates put this argument forward so vehemently now?
It is untimely at best. At a time when ill-informed and
self-congratulatory commentaries about how far America
has come on the race question, abound, Gates weighs in
to say, we can also stop “blaming” ourselves
(‘ourselves’ meaning white Americas or their surrogates)
for slavery.
The burden of race is made a little bit lighter by
Gates’ revisionist history. It is curious that the essay
appears at the same time that we not only see efforts to
minimize the importance of race or racism, but at a
moment when there is a rather sinister attempt to
rewrite the antebellum era as the good old days of
southern history. Virginia Governor Bob McConnell went
so far as to designate a month in honor of the
pro-slavery Confederacy.—Barbara Ransby
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Marvin X—White Supremacy /
Marvin X Tribute sponsored by The Oakland Post
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Marvin X and His Parables
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Take This
Hammer
KQED's film unit
follows poet and activist James Baldwin in the spring of
1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with
members of the local African-American community. He is
escorted by Youth For Service's Executive Director
Orville Luster and intent on discovering: "The real
situation of negroes in the city, as opposed to the
image San Francisco would like to present." He declares:
"There is no moral distance ... between the facts of
life in San Francisco and the facts of life in
Birmingham. Someone's got to tell it like it is. And
that's where it's at." Includes frank exchanges with
local people on the street, meetings with community
leaders and extended point-of-view sequences shot from a
moving vehicle, featuring the Bayview and Western
Addition neighborhoods. Baldwin reflects on the racial
inequality that African-Americans are forced to confront
and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man
by expressing his conviction that: "There will be a
negro president of this country but it will not be the
country that we are sitting in now." The TV Archive
would like to thank Darryl Cox for championing the
merits of this film and for his determination that it be
preserved and remastered for posterity.
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Straight Outta Hunters Point /
Malcolm X Birthday (1970)
KQED News report
from May 19th 1970 on the Hunters Point community of San
Francisco's celebrations and remembrance for what would
have been the 45th birthday of political and human
rights activist Malcolm X. Features scenes of local
residents describing the personal impact that Malcom X
had on their lives and people enjoying live music. Ends
with views of public speakers addressing crowds outside
the Federal Courthouse in downtown San Francisco,
including the Reverend Cecil Williams who explains that:
"We are talking about the liberation of the people! And
that's what we want at this particular time."
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Amiri Baraka's "Something In The Way Of Things (In
Town)"
A
visual adaptation of
Amiri
Baraka's scathing and foreboding social commentary
(music by The Roots.) Shot on three different types of
film and two different types of video over three months
with at least fifty actors/extras in about twenty-five
locations in the West Philly area by one guy. (Bryan
Green, 22, senior film & video major at Drexel
University)
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Eldridge
Cleaver: My Friend the Devil
A Memoir by Marvin X
Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of
the Civil Rights Era
Reviewing Houston A. Baker's
Betrayal
of Black Intellectuals Books by Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
Marvin X on YouTube Marvin X Table
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Marcus Garvey "Africa For The Africans" /
Look For Me in The Whirlwind
Marcus Mosiah
Garvey /
Marucs Garvey Speech
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Unedited video supports Sherrod’s claim she
wasn't racist—The
full, uncut video of a federal
agricultural official's NAACP speech
purporting racial scheming, told a different
story than the barely-three-minute snippet
that cost her her job. Despite admitting in
the
edited version of the taping that she
once withheld help to the couple on the
basis of race, Shirley Sherrod was defended
Tuesday by the wife of a white Georgia
farmer. Sherrod, "kept us out of
bankruptcy," said Eloise Spooner, 82, of
Iron City in southwest Georgia. Spooner, in
an interview with The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, added she
considers Sherrod a "friend for life."
She
and her husband, Roger Spooner, approached
Sherrod for help in 1986 when Sherrod worked
for a nonprofit that assisted farmers.
Sherrod, who is African-American, was asked
to resign Monday night by a USDA official
after videotaped comments she made in March
at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the Web
Atlanta Journal /
NAACP
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Politico /
Politico 2 |
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.—WashingtonPost |
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Becoming American Under Fire
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship
During the Civil War Era
By Christian G. Samito
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. . . . For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. / For Love of Liberty |
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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 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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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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Hurricane Carter
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