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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
Allegations of rape go back to Biblical
times, remember Joseph and the vizier's wife? She attempted to
rape him, but lied to her husband that Joseph was the villain,
which almost cost Joseph his head, it did get him thrown into
the dungeon. He was high profile and all men in such a position
are a danger to themselves when approached by women who want to
be with the "star." Now some men are rapist outright,
some of their actions being culturally approved, part of male
socialization. As a teenager, we committed gang rape every
Sunday at the show, a consistent act along with popcorn,
cartoons and the white man killing Indians.
What a horrible act of manhood training that
I'm sure didn't help our later sexual relations, especially in
my case because I would later rape my wife every night, every
day and twice on Sunday. Yes, in my patriarchal way of thinking,
I owned my wife's body, mind and soul. I was insatiable and she
had a duty to satisfy me no matter how she felt, tired, sick or
otherwise. Don't tell me to go to sleep or wait until
tomorrow--fuck tomorrow, give up the funk or get yo ass kicked
b.
Sounds like something from the Flintstones and of course it is.
At least that's how it was, and although I have matured and
reformed, seems that many of my brothers haven't heard the news
that cave men can do time for taking pussy. Somehow, the message
must go out that we can't get away with such actions any longer,
especially after OJ, Mike Tyson, R Kelly and numerous other
rappers, entertainers and athletes. Brothers, what part don't
you get, what dots can't you connect? And how important is pussy
to you, is it really worth your entire career, your very freedom
for a hot moment of passion in the dressing room, in the
bathroom or bedroom because a two dollar ho wants to be in your
presence?
Of course every woman wants to be with a star, to share the
limelight, if only for a hot minute, a moment to remember, or
just to set you up, maybe for the white man, and you go for it
like simple Simon. We can't blame the woman for knocking our
hotel door down, but Dr. Hare says, "If you don't want the
harlot, don't open the door." Game supposed to recognize
game, but obviously some nigguhs can't see the devil in the blue
dress: you open the door and next thing you know your're facing
twenty-five years to life. How could you've been that
stupid--simple, ego tripping, thinking you're the hog with the
big nuts, you can have all the girls. I've gone through it in
theatre: the unwritten law in theatre is that the director gets
the first shot at the new recruit, wannabe actress or actor. And
there were times when I had so many women, other women refused
to give me pussy, they said, "No, Marvin, you got too much
pussy already, leave me alone."
And on tour, women will beat you to your hotel room. You can't
get into your room for the women lined up at your door. What is
a man to do? Life on the road is lonely. What do you do after
the applause. You want to freak! Well, better have some
discretion because a moment of freaking may cost you big money
and big time, plus may cost your health, ask Magic Johnson, Ezey
E.
Where are your bodyguards, your security? Get them on their job
or you won't have a job.
You won't have a life. No, you will not be a member of the
sucker free club!
Black
Reconstruction is a weekly mental health group session, facilitated by
Dr. Nathan Hare, clinical psychologist and founder of black studies in
America. The session is co-facilitated by Suzzette Celese, MSW. Black
Reconstruction is hosted by Recovery Theatre, 133 Golden Gate Avenue,
between Leavenworth and Jones, San Francisco. The group meets on
Wednesdays, 6-7:30PM and his free. Call 510-798-9155 for more
information.
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Africa Makes Some Noise—Documentary on contemporary music from
Africa
Books by Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America /
Woman: Man's Best Friend
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality /
Eldridge
Cleaver: My Friend the Devil
Marvin X on YouTube Marvin X Table
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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
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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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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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