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The Surreal Absurdity of American Democracy and Law

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They told us North Americans if and when we violate US laws, we go to jail and prison. And in fact, as I write, there are nearly three million North American Africans, Brown and poor white people in the jails and prisons of America. And yet the Democratic Party and their progressive and right wing Republican sycophants want to convince us that illegal immigrants can come across the border freely and obtain refugee status, health care, education, and, alas, voting rights, no matter their illegal status.
Without giving due consideration legal immigrants, we are propagandized by the fake news media that only presents news of North American Africans as criminals, yet in concert with the pseudo liberal, progressive Democratic Party and their Communists and Democratic Socialists sycophants, and don't leave out the right wing Republican capitalists, along with the Pope (Remember Bishop Las Casas who requested the importation of Africans into the slave system in the Americas); yes, this immigration false narrative of left/right propaganda for the benefit of all concerned, i.e., Democrats, Republicans, Communists, Socialists, Catholic Charities, Drug Cartels, global sex traffickers and sellers of  body parts, what hope have the common people, the poor righteous teachers and the 85 t0 90 % of the deaf, dumb and blind?

FYI, I stand on the side of truth that transcends political, ideological and religious dogmatism. I just reviewed Field Marshall Donald Cox's memoir of the Black Panther Party in which he delineated the tragi-comedy of strident ideological Communism, Marxist-Leninism and Democratic Socialism. Field Marshall Cox describes the horror of dogmatism that turned brothers and sisters against each other to the extent we couldn't speak to each other, even with comrades we loved!

So we hope and pray this generation does not fall prey to Stalism that allowed us to murder comrades and jail them in our private jails in the name of revolution.

BPP Field Marshal Donald Cox told us of how black brothers were divided by bald heads and black leather jackets. He did not delineate how bald heads and black leather jackets morphed into the fratricide of the Bloods and Krips. Furthermore, he did not fully describe the west coast/east coast fratricide of the Black Panther Party.

FYI, when I produced my play One Day in the Life at Sista's Place in Brooklyn, NY, one day they pulled me aside and said, "Marvin X, we love you and are so happy you have recovered from Crack and are back on the battlefield, but as per your drama depicting your last encounter with Huey Newton, just know this: on the East Coast, we don't give a fuck about Huey here. This is Eldridge's turf and we are still soldiers in the BLM of Eldridge Cleaver.

--continued
Marvin X
3/19/19

Bay Area Poets honor San Francisco State University Strike, Reading at San Francisco Main Library

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Join us on March 24, 1-4 p.m., in the Latino/Hispanic Room (Lower Level) of the San Francisco Public Library for a celebration of the SF State Student Strike of 1968.


From November 6, 1968 until March 20, 1969, hundreds of protesting San Francisco State College students, faculty, and staff went on strike to demand equal access to public higher education, the hiring of senior faculty of color, and a revised curriculum that would embrace the histories and cultures of all people, including ethnic minorities. The efforts of these activists led to the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State.


Come hear a stellar roster of Bay Area poets, including SF State strikers, express solidarity with the spirit of the Strike, as the poets take us along on their journey to experience the depth and beauty of all cultures and to end racism in America.


Val Ibarra (aka Global Val) of KPFA's Mutiny Radio will emcee this program. Featured readers include: Tongo Eisen-Martin, Q.R. Hand, Judy Juanita, Avotcja, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, Alejandro Murgia, Aja Couchois Duncan, Leslie Simon, Gary Goch, Ernie Brill and Marvin X.

Related exhibit: Strike! Ethnic Studies Now, on view March 23–June 20, 3rd Floor, Main Library. This exhibit explores the events leading up to the strike, the campus strike and the need and enduring legacy of Ethnic Studies.









Three first cousins of Marvin X join ancestors within three weeks, two in three days

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Cover photo Alicia Mayo
Cover and book design Adam Turner


WTF, I am in total shock and disbelief that three of my first cousins have joined the ancestors within the last three weeks, also my "adopted" aunt, Dr. Julia Hare. My cousins, Stan, Faye and Sandra Murrill, were children of my mother's brother, Stanley, who raised them as a single father after divorcing his wife due to alcoholism. The remaining siblings are Patsy, Connie and Cathy, all of whom except Connie resided in Sacramento. Their father was my mother's baby brother and my surrogate father after my parents separated. My maternal family suffered high blood pressure and the resultant strokes. Faye and Sandra were on dialysis and transitioned yesterday and today. When my sister Judy called to inform me Faye passed, I thought she was joking since we have yet buried cousin Stan, my most radical cousin who combined revolution and the hustling life. Faye and Sandra lived quiet lives, even more reclusive than I am, though this is a family trait, introverts. Faye's son, Byron, works hard as the manager of a DMV in Oakland. All of my cousins support the family radical, especially when I make appearances in Sacramento. Stan and I last kicked it together when I was a featured author at the Sacramento Black Book Fair. Stan never hesitated to tell all he knew that I was his cousin and he spread my books throughout the hood. When I stayed with him at his apartment, he rushed me to his neighbor's house, Fillmore Slim, legendary musician and master of the game.

Stan, also known as Butterball in the hood (especially in Sac's Oak Park neighborhood) was the inspiration of his five sisters, which makes me think they enjoyed an unconscious pack to depart together since they most certainly did. If I am correct, Stan, Sandra and Faye were the eldest of the six children. I thank them for the loving times we shared and know, yes, they are in a better place since I have no knowledge of their doing wrong to anyone. Surely we are from Allah and to Him we return. Arrangements are pending. As the eldest of all my cousins, I say please pray for the Murrill/Jackmon family in our hour of grief. Thank you.
--Marvin X
3/21/19

And the beat goes on
Marvin X 75th b-day tour
b. May 29,1944


Saturday, March 23
Benefit for Haiti

Malonga Center, Oakland, 7pm
book signing

Sunday, March 24


Marvin X joins Bay Area poets in honor of the
50th Anniversary of the BSU/Third World Strike at SFSU
San Francisco Main Library, Larkin Street
1-4PM

Sunday, March 24, 6-10PM
Marvin X at Oakland's Blue Dream
1300 7th Street, West Oakland
The Art of Storytelling
a reading and trans-generational conversation with Marvin X
conducted by Hip Hop comic Langstyn Williams

"Marvin X is a National Treasure!"--Blue Dream
"Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland!"--Ishmael Reed, Master Writer 

"He's the USA's Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz!"--Bob Holman

"When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too Short, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, think of Marvin X. He laid the foundation and gave us the language to express black male urban experiences in a lyrical way."
--James G. Spady,
Phiadelphia New Observer Newspaper

"Marvin X was my teacher. Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Movement theatre, e.g., Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, George Murray, Samuel Napier, Emory Douglas, et al."--Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder, Black Panther Party


Saturday, April 6, 3-6PM
Memorial for Dr. Julia Hare



Minister-poet Marvin X officiates
Geoffery's Inner Circle
14th and Franklin Streets,
downtown Oakland CA

Tuesday, April 9, 4PM
Davey D's Hip Hop Class
San Francisco State University



photo Davey D


Marvin X with students in Davey D's Hip Hop class, San Francisco State University, 12/4/18

Marvin X received his B.A. and M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, 1974-75. He was a TA in the English/Creative Writing Department, 1964-66, also a member of the Negro Students Association that morphed into the BSU, 1964-66. 

He graduated from Oakland City College, aka, Merritt, 1962-1964. His fellow students were Black Panther Party co-founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The entire Bay Area was inspired by the black radical consciousness of the Afro-American Association under the leadership of Attorney Donald Warden, aka Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour. May he be forever praised! Without the AAA there would be no Black Panther Party, Black Arts Movement or Black Studies in the Bay Area. I wish sombody would hep me in the spirit of JB.

The SFSU Drama Department produced his first play, the Black Arts Movement classic Flowers for the Trashman, 1965. In 1966, he dropped out of SFSU to found his own Black Arts West Theatre in the Fillmore, later worked at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, New York, while underground as a resister to the USA war in Vietnam. 

May 29, 2019

Honorary Philly Poet Marvin X 
celebrates his 75th b-day in Philly
at the University of Penn

hosts: Maurice Henderson, Gregory Walker, Tony Montiero, Pam Africa, Sonia Sanchez, Elliott Bey, Sun Ra Arkestra, Muhammad Ahmad, Nisa Ra, et al.

June 2019
Marvin X reads and signs Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter
Seattle, Wa
host: Hakeem Trotter
TBA

October, 2019
Marvin X production
How We Got Ovah
celebration of the 400th anniversary of  our presence
in the wilderness of North America, English colonies
1619-2019
a myth-ritual dramatic dance drama/mixed media production
written/directed/produced 
by Marvin X
Six Square Black Cultural District
Executive Producer
Austin, Texas

Final Draft Program for Dr. Julia Hare Memorial, Oakland, April 6, 3-6PM, Geoffery's Inner Circle

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The Most Honorable Dr. Julia Hare
Final Draft Program for Oakland Memorial at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, April 6, 3-6PM, 14th and Franklin Streets, downtown Oakland
Processional
Musical interlude, Tarika Lewis, Violinist
Libation Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Opening Prayer, Marvin X, Minister of Poetry
Obituary Tureada Mikell
Message from one revolutionary queen to another: Pam Africa of Philadelphia
Blues for Julia: St. James Infirmary, Fillmore Slim and Kev Choice
Reading and Songs from the Book of Julia and Nathan Hare
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Vocalist Bryant Bolling
“She Always Stood by Me” by Dr. Nathan Hare, read by Marvin X
“Unforgettable” Vocalist Bryant Bolling
Expressions/remarks (2 minutes please)
Musical Selection Tarika Lewis
Recessional

Repast

Poem for Soledad Brother John Clutchette

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Poem for Soledad Brother John Clutchette


Brother John came by my Academy of da Corner today
14th and Broadway
Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza
We honor Frank Ogawa and Oscar Grant
Citizens of Oakland
Made a difference
and you don't even know
Frank Ogawa or Oscar Grant
Fine gentleman
Asian African
Oakland
Along came John
Soledad Brother
like no other
survivor 
John
made it out belly of beast
american gulag
John
Comrade of George Jackson
Slayer of the Dragons
kill or be killed
Soledad Prison mantra
My brother there too
read Flowers for the Trashman
Brother Ollie killer too
he told me
kill or be killed
guard kill honky kill we kill three
Kumasi say
Kumasi master griot of American Prison Movement
Kumasi say you guys had revolution outside
we had revolution inside prison walls
down in dungeon
belly of beast
Kumasi say for every one of us
we take three of you 
devil white boy supremacist honky

John Clutchette came by today
John say can't stay
gotta report in for one year
thank you Marvin X for your literature
shared with brothers
Marvin X I have twenty six dollars
let me donate six
Don't give me nothin' 
let me donate today
John went his way.
Soledad Brother
Warrior Supreme!
--Marvin X
1/23/19

"Soledad Brother" John Clutchette stops by Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, Oakland


John said we must free Ruchell  McGee! And I agree. I suggest when Kanye West meets with your President Trump tomorrow, he suggest giving a general amnesty to all incarcerated in American prisons. John was paroled in July, 2018. He's wearing an ankle monitor and getting adjusted to the cell phone. Marvin told him, "Just stop any five year old and they will tell you how to use it. Just be ready for them to call you stupid and dummy." When John tried to give a donation for a collection of Marvin's books, the poet refused to take the money.
--Marvin X
10/10/18



San Francisco Celebrates the Life of Dr. Julia Hare by Marvin X

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San Francisco Celebrates the Life of Dr. Julia Hare, Queen of Black Consciousness

by
Marvin X
photos Adam Turner


Left to right, Mildred Hare and her young brother, Dr. Nathan Hare and Marvin X.
photo Adam Turner




Former San Francisco Mayor, the Honorable Willie Brown and Rev. Amos Brown
photo Adam Turner






Dr. Julia Hare, 
Educator, Motivator, Inspirator, Agitator, Liberator

Today, Saturday, March 30, must be declared Dr. Julia Hare Day, especially since the City of San Francisco celebrated her transition to the ancestors during Women's History Month. What manner of woman was this, this female Malcolm X as a black newspaper in England named her in a full page article some years ago. The consensus of speakers at Third Baptist Church said again and again, she was a phenomenal woman who gave all she could to enlighten, educate, inspire and motivate our people to be their very best selves. 


Left to right Wilford Ussery, Emory Douglas, Dr. Hare,Terry Collins, Benny Stewart (man on back left unidentified)
photo Adam Turner

Firstly, we must give honor and praise to Amelia Ashley-Ward for organizing and officiating this grand home going ceremony at Third Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Amos Brown, mentored by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Third Baptist is known for it liberation theology and Civil Rights activism, the perfect space to honor and praise our modern Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells. 

Before Barack and Michelle Obama, Beyonce' and JayZ became known as power couples, Julia and Nathan held the honor, they enjoyed 62 years of marriage.Dr. Nathan Hare has said, "Half the people not married are trying to get married and half of those married are trying to get unmarried!"

Speaker after speaker confirmed the Hares were the supreme model of black love and successful male/female relations, inspiring and counseling others to have positive relationships. Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the Sun Reporter Newspaper, shared her remarks after the Delta sorors gave Julia last rites. 

Amelia Ashey-Ward said she and Julia used to converse every morning at 6AM. on a myriad topics, including relationships and child rearing. 


The Honorable London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco and former Mayor Willie Brown
photo Adam Turner

Amelia introduced the first African American woman Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed. Mayor Breed made it crystal clear how critical Julia was in her career advancement, the unconditional love Julia gave her and all who came into contact with our beloved Queen of Black Consciousness and Upliftment. 

Mayor London Breed was followed by the Honorable Willie Brown, first black mayor of San Francisco and the undisputed god-father of California politics. The god-father showered more honor and praise upon Dr. Julia Hare. He referred to Mayor London Breed as the boss of San Francisco, but we have it from a reliable source that the god-father is still alive and well, executing his role as the king of San Francisco and California politics. And he looked so well, someone noted he must be taking a stay young pill!

Ernie Fields was in the first grade with Julia
photo Adam Turner

The singing and music was out of this world, revealing the genius of our black classical tradition, from the Sheryl Davis operatic rendition of "You're The Best Thing," to the "Nigger liberace" Ricardo Scales on piano to saxophonist Ernie Fields, Jr.'s "Soul Serenade" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." 

Sangin' Sarah blew us away with "My Way"
photo Adam Turner

Ernie noted that he knew Dr. Julia Hare before everyone in the audience, he knew her in the first grade, Tulsa, Oklahoma. His melodic sounds had the audience rocking. His "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" touched me deeply because my "adopted" aunt used to give me a private concert whenever I visited their apartment in the high class section of Jackson Street, where they have resided since 1973. Several people noted that although Julia and Nathan lived high, they always associated themselves with the people in the  hood. In 2004, I produced the Black Radical Book Fair in the wretched multi-cultural ghetto called the Tenderloin, only blocks from the affluent Union Square area of downtown San Francisco, attended by the black literati as well as pimps and hustlers who'd written books or were in the process of doing so, such notables as Fillmore Slim, Gangsta Brown, Mickey Moore, Rose Bud Bitterdose, et al. The pimps and hustlers said if they had known they could be successful writing books they would have never entered the sex trade. 

In her response to them, Dr. Julia Hare said, "Don't feel guilty about your pimping and hustling life because we got ecclesiastical pimps as well!" 

And as per male/female relations, our undisputed Queen of Black Consciousness told women at the Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness Concert, San Francisco State University, 2001, "Sisters, I didn't wait for my ship to come in, I swam out to meet it!" Then she called out her husband in the audience, "Nathan, didn't I swim out to meet you?" And blew him a kiss! What manner of woman is this? 

Amelia called up Dr. Mary Ann Jones, Director of San Francisco's Westside Mental Health Services.
Dr. Jones said Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare saved her life while a teenager because she was headed to destruction; she thanked Nathan and Julia for their guidance and making her the successful woman she is today!

After the King of Africa, Rabboni Selah, gave his inspirational, motivational remarks in praise of Julia, Amelia called forth my home-girl from Fresno, the founder and president of Black Women Organized for Political Action, Dezi Woods-Jones. 

Amelia Ashley-Ward, organizer and officiator of memorial, and Dezi Woods-Jones, Founder of Black Women Organized for Political Action
photo Adam Turner


In her coming into consciousness, Dezi noted how such black nationalists as Jimmy Garrett, Kwame Toure and Marvin X, and most especially Julia gave her the consciousness to be the woman she became as head of BWOPA, and she did not leave out the legendary Edith Austin, god-mother of Bay Area politics.

Rev. Amos Brown, presiding Minster, Third Baptist Church

Rev. Amos Brown gave critical historical remarks on Julia's attendance at Langston University and called for the full support of Historical Black colleges, especially Howard University, of which brother Langston should have been the first president. 


Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III
photo Adam Turner

Rev. Brown introduced, Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, who delivered a powerful message of celebration. In the manner of Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Haynes, III, stole the show! In the grandest tradition of black Christian oratory, Dr. Haynes placed Julia in biblical historiography, the story of Tabitha, Acts 9:36-42. One translation of Tabitha is a woman of energy, grace, beauty and quick movements. Rev. Hayes asked was this not Dr. Julia Hare? Tabitha is also translated as gazelle, an animal who was swift even among rocks and hillsides, and he said, "Was not Dr. Julia Hare Tabitha?"

Before Rev. Brown's benediction, Amelia announced the Oakland Celebration will be Saturday, April 6, 3-6PM at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, 410 14th at Franklin, downtown Oakland. For more information: 510-575-7148

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Dr. Nathan Hare and Marvin X
photo Adam Turner

I love strong black women

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Angela and Fania Davis


I love strong black women
cause mama was strong black woman
with husband
without husband
single mom
nine children
no welfare black woman
no husband no cry
strong black woman
business woman for community
real estate woman
transcended red lining black woman
sold houses to blacks when white man denied loans
mom and dad sold blacks homes in 50s
dad lost his license gambling
violated his fiduciary relationship
moved to Oakland
reinvented himself as florist on 7th Street
Harlem of West
mom eventually left him
returned to Fresno as real estate broker
Marian M. Jackmon Realty
signs all over Fresno black community
Marian Murrill Jackmon Realty
single mom nine children
no husband
no man could share her vision'
especially her spirituality
bizness was front for her spirituality
disciple Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
Mary saved her sanity
from father's insanity
childhood memories of mama's
breakdown
child mind didn't know
nervous breakdown  mental breakdown
how child mind know DSM Manual
Child knew mama
worked 24/7
never no vacation
joker:this
her bizness front for  spirituality
disciple of Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science mythology
Mary saved her sanity
from father's insanity no doubt
thoughts from old world
he fought in WWI
caught mama young girl twenty
he forty
another world man
conscious true

just know the truth
truth set you free
mama taught her nine children by two men
she departed from
moma woman of vision
told her star child Marvin X
you don't need no wife
you need maid secretary mistress
no wife
how mama know this
star child wondered
didn't know he was star child
siblings knew he mama's star child
kept it from him
mama knew he was special
siblings knew mama knew he special
siblings hated him
jealous envious
low information vibration
world hated him too
low information vibration world
Marvin X overwhelming to all
mama told him no wife
only maid secretary mistress
no wife for her star child
mama knew no woman could take her son
wish we knew how mama knew
but mama knew her star child better than he knew himself

no woman no man could stand his thirty hitter brain
only for a moment or two
raw uncut brain cells
no miller lite
fake news
monkey mind media bullshit
world of make believe
brain cells
mama knew her star child beyond low information vibration.
Duke said music was his mistress.
Marvin X said writing his mistress.
Sade said everyday is Xmas
Every night New Year's Eve
This is how Marvin X lives
every day and every night
Better AX somebody.

Julia Hare
strong black woman
man no matter
she had strong black man
no punk man
Nathan Hare pro boxer
knock a nigga to eternity
like Huey Newton
shotgun to pig shotgun
must be that Southern thang
beyond fear beyond death
crazy nigga style
crazy nigga DNA
Some don't know need to know
Nigga wasn't bad word
N word
bad word was black
call a nigga nigga no problem
call a nigga black
big problem
like talkin bout somebody mama
call nigga black
not on West Oakland 7th Street
where I grew up
call a nigga black
serious problem
Prescott Elementary
Lowell Jr. High
McClymond's problem
Black a fight
yo mama black fight
daddy black fight
call nigga nigga no fight
step on nigga shoes fight
all nigga shoes shined at Perry's fight.
better ax somebody
You from West Oakland nigga?
You know bout John Singer's nigga
Pearl's Cafe nigga
Slim Jenkins nigga
Lincoln Theatre nigga
Loraine's greasy spoon hamburger fries
Pearl's cafe
Ester's Orbit Room
The Barn
you don't know this shit, you ain't from west oakland, nigga
you play basketball at Defermery nigga?
Don't talk ta me nigga. You ain't no real Oakland nigga.
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Memorial for Dr. Julia Hare, Saturday, April 6, 3-6PM, Geoffery's

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Oakland Salutes Warrior Queen
Dr. Julia Hare
Sunrise
November 7, 1933
Sunset
February 25, 2019


Celebration of Life
Saturday, April 6, 3-6PM
Geoffery's Inner Circle
410 14th Street
Oakland CA

Transition of Marvin X's three first cousins in three weeks

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Faye and Sandra Murrill

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Stan Murrill II


WTF, I am in total shock and disbelief that three of my first cousins have joined the ancestors within the last three weeks, also my "adopted" aunt, Dr. Julia Hare. My cousins, Stan, Faye and Sandra Murrill, were children of my mother's brother, Stanley, who raised them as a single father. The remaining siblings are Patsy, Connie and Cathy, all of whom except Connie resided in Sacramento. Their father was my mother's baby brother and my surrogate father after my parents separated. My maternal family suffered high blood pressure and the resultant strokes. Faye and Sandra were on dialysis and transitioned yesterday and today. When my sister Judy called to inform me Faye passed, I thought she was joking since we have yet buried cousin Stan, my most radical cousin who combined revolution and the hustling life. Faye and Sandra lived quiet lives, even more reclusive than I am, though this is a family trait, introverts. Faye's son, Byron, works hard as the manager of a DMV in Oakland. All of my cousins support the family radical, especially when I make appearances in Sacramento. Stan and I last kicked it together when I was a featured author at the Sacramento Black Book Fair. Stan never hesitated to tell all he knew that I was his cousin and he spread my books throughout the hood. When I stayed with him at his apartment, he rushed me to his neighbor's house, Fillmore Slim, legendary musician and master of the game.

Stan, also known as Butterball in the hood (especially in Sac's Oak Park neighborhood) was the inspiration of his five sisters, which makes me think they enjoyed an unconscious pack to depart together since they most certainly did. If I am correct, Stan, Sandra and Faye were the eldest of the six children. I thank them for the loving times we shared and know, yes, they are in a better place since I have no knowledge of their doing wrong to anyone. Surely we are from Allah and to Him we return. As the eldest of all my cousins, I say please pray for the Murrill/Jackmon family in our hour of grief. Thank you.
--Marvin X
3/21/19

Message from Byron Murrill

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the triple memorial service for my uncle Stan Murrill, aunt Sandra Murrill, and my mom Faye Murrill. The siblings passed within 3 weeks of one another from separate illnesses. Memorial to be held at VFW Post 67 at 2784 Stockton Blvd Sacramento CA 95817 on Monday April 8, 2019 at 1 pm. Please keep our family in your prayers.

Image may contain: 2 people, including Marvin X Jackmon, people standing

Byron and Marvin X at the 80th birthday celebration of Dr. Nathan Hare, Geoffrey's Inner Circle, Oakland.
photo Aries Jordan

Bio of Dr. Julia Hare

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Biography

The dynamic motivational lecturer, relationship expert, author, social commentator and educational psychologist
Dr. Julia Hare was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hare has appeared on several television programs offering her
expertise and insights on male/female relationships, gender interactions in the workplace, mate selection, toxic
relationships and matrimonial harmony. She has appeared on CNN & Company, C-SPAN, Tony Brown’s
Journal and Inside Edition. Hare has also spoken before the Congressional Black Caucus, participated in Tavis
Smiley’s “State of the Black Family” Conference and spoke at the annual Essence Empowerment Seminars at
the Essence Magazine Culture Festival. Her written work has been featured in several magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. Hare and her husband co-authored The Endangered Black Family; Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Passage, The Miseducation of The Black Child, Crisis in Black Sexual Politics and How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working).
Hare, along with her husband, Dr. Nathan Hare, formed The Black Think Tank located in San Francisco,
California. Their consulting firm focuses on issues affecting the black family.
Dr. Julia Hare’s work has brought her many awards and honors including Educator of the Year for Washington,
D.C. by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and World Book Encyclopediain coordination with American
University; The Abe Lincoln Award for Outstanding Broadcasting, The Carter G. Woodson Education Award,
The Association of Black Social Workers’ Harambee Award; the Scholar of the Year Award from the
Association of African Historians; and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Black Writers
and Artists Union. Hare has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of her high school alma mater, Booker
T. Washington High, was given a Presidential citation from the National Association for Equal Opportunity
in Higher Education and was named one of the ten most influential African Americans in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
During graduate school, Hare taught elementary school in Chicago, Illinois integrating music into the
student’s lessons. Following a move to California, Hare served as the director of educational programs at
the Oakland Museum and later hosted talk shows for both ABC television and KSFO radio stations. She
also served as the public relations director in the local federal housing program in San Francisco.
Her formal education includes a B.A. in music from Langston University of Langston, Oklahoma; a M.A.
degree in music education from Roosevelt University located in Chicago, Illinois and a Ph.D. in education
from the California Coast University in Santa Ana, California.


Amelia Ashley Ward and Marvin X: A Conversation of their love for Dr. Julia Hare

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Amelia Ashley-Ward
Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter
In Conversation with Marvin X 
on their mutual love of Dr. Julia Hare


Dr. Julia Hare, Female Malcolm X, Ball of Fire


Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter Newspaper and Dezi Woods-Jones, Founder and President of Black Women Organized for Political Action
photo Adam Turner

Marvin X, author of thirty books, most below the radar but his works are beloved in the community.
Poor people sometimes pay $100.00 per copy for the limited editions of his books. Often they put them on lay-a-way. Marvin X, who teaches at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland and Lakeshore Ave., says, "I wish our people  knew the beauty of our people. I give credit and 99% of the people pay me while I keep no record of their account. Of course, money means nothin' to me. I don't write for commercial success, I writer for the joy of writing and to educate my people and all people, no matter what color.



Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the Sun Reporter Newspaper, founded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett and Tom Fleming, organized and officiated the memorial ceremony for Dr. Julia Hare at Third Baptist Church. Marvin's review of the event is in the current edition of the Sun Reporter. The occasion made possible the renewal of friendship between Amelia and Marvin X, who is known to travel on the other side of planet earth!



Sun Ra, Father of Afro-futurism, see the movie Black Panther, see Space is the Place, filmed in Oakland. In 1971-72, Sun Ra and Marvin X taught Black Studies at UC Berkeley. Sun Ra arranged music for Marvin's musical Take Care of Business, performed at X's Black Educational Theatre, Fillmore District, later at the Harding Theatre on Divisadero Street; a five hour concert without intermission, reviewed in the Sun Reporter.

Indefatigable, peripatetic poet/playwright Marvin X and Sun Ra, co-founders of the Black Arts Movement; Sun Ra is the undisputed father of Afro-futurism In 1972 these Gemini twins taught Black Studies at UC Berkeley. Sun Ra's UC Berkeley lectures, audio version, are available on YouTube in four parts. Sun Ra and his Myth-Science Arkestra did the music for Marvin's classic play Take Care of Business.


After all, he was a coast to coast confident and artistic associate of the legendary father of Afro-futurism, Sun Ra, who synchronized Kemetic mythology and science fiction. Thus, Marvin X traveled the space ways with his buddy Sun Ra, not to mention his other earth and space travelers: Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, Amiri and Amina Baraka and Drs. Nathan and Julia Hare, et al.


Dr. Huey P. Newton

Dr. Huey P. Newton said, "Marvin X was my teacher. Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre, e.g., Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier,  Judy Juanita, JoAnn Mitchell, Ellendar Barnes, Sharon Treskanoff, et al."

After Marvin's aunts and uncles joined the ancestors and he became elder of his many cousins, in despair at the lost of his eders, he "adopted" Julia and Nathan as his aunt and uncle and became even closes  friends,associates and comrades in the revolutionary black nationalist liberation movement. Nathan Hare wrote the introduction to X's Black Arts Movement autobiography Somethin' Proper, Black Bird Press, 1998. Hare wrote the forward to his How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a manual based on the twelve step model. Dr. Hare did the introduction to X's latest work Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X, Black Bird Press, 2019.


Amelia used to have phone conversations with Julia every morning at 6AM. Although Dr. Nathan Hare informed her Marvin would be attending the San Francisco memorial, Amelia was shocked to see him in person after so long, and happy to see he was calm and cool at the service. She noted that he seemed to be enjoying himself. He told her after the service, "If that preacher, Rev. Haynes, III, said two more words, I might have become a Christian!"


Rev. Haynes honoring Dr. Julia Hare at Third Baptist Church, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner

Marvin congratulated Amelia on the excellent memorial she organized and officiated. "I doubt we can top that when I officiate the Oakland memorial on Saturday, April 6, 3-6PM, at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, 410 14th St., Oakland. "Marvin, why do you think you need to top what I did?""Well, I don't really mean top, all I can say is the Oakland celebration will be different!" Their conversation continued throughout the week anod as the Oakland date neared, Marvin told her, "Amelia, in Oakland we gonna put the funk in the game, Oakland style. Blues musician/hustler Fillmore Slim's going to sing St. James Infirmary.""Yes, and I see you stole Ricardo Scales for your event as well.""Yes, Ricardo is going to get down funky too, as he did at Third Baptist Church. Amelia, when I produced the Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness Concert at San Francisco State University, 2001, Dr. Cornel West told the folks, "We must keep the funk in place. That's whey we love Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., they kept the funk in place, kept it real, they were authentic!"


Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X in Philly for Mumia Abu Jamal

Now, this was the same event that Julia proclaimed to the sisters, "Sisters, I didn't wait for my ship to come in, I swam out to meet it," then called out her husband in the audience, "Nathan, didn't I swim out to meet you?" and blew him a kiss! She also told the audience, "When Marvin X calls you to do something, it's like God calling. When he says jump, you say how high!"

Amelia and I agreed that we were united in our love for Julia and Nathan, that's it that's all. I invited Amelia to speak at the Oakland celebration, especially to share a few tidbits of her 6AM conversations with Julia. After telling Dr. Nathan Hare of our conversation, he said she needs to also mention the many luncheon conversations she and other women had with Julia throughout the years.:

Dr. Nathan Hare at the Third Baptist Church memorial of Dr. Julia Hare, wife of 62 years.
photo Adam Turner


Nathan and Julia Hare in the UK, where the Black newspaper called her the female Malcolm X


Participants 
Oakland  memorial for Dr. Julia Hare

Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Tureeda Mikell
Geoffery Grier
Pam Africa
Fillmore Slim
Representatives of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's office
Vocalist Bryant Bolling
Pianist Ricardo Scales
Violinist Tarika Lewis
Officiated by Marvin X, Minister of Poetry

Videographers

William Drummond
Khalid Waajib
Mitchael Satchel


Sound/lighting
Langstyon Williams
Bobby, Blue Dream
William Drummond

Program
Dennis Jeffrey
Karen Cheadle

Repast 

Geoffrey Pete
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
LaNiece Jones
Judy Juanita
Delores Noche
Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Dr. Ramona Tascoe
Mr. and Mrs. Leon and Carolyn Teasley
Mr. and Mrs. Hasan James
Attorney Amira Jackmon
Nefertiti Jackmon



Oakland sends Warrior Queen Julia Hare home

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Oakland sends Warrior Queen Dr. Julia Hare Home 
by
Marvin X
photos
Johnnie Burrell


 Fillmore Slim sings St. James Infirmary 

 Dr. Nathan Hare and his Sister Mildred, Mrs. and Mr. Gay and Paul Cobb, Marvin X

 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga offering libation

Seated, Dr. Nathan Hare and his older sister Mildred
Standing, Marvin X and his star student, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga

 Congresswoman Barbara Lee

 Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Dr. Hare


Rabboni Sela, Dr. Hare, Dr. Ramona Tascoe

 Sax man Jethro and guitarist Mike


Vocalist Bryant Bolling

Rt. Judge Horace Wheatley, Rashid Shabazz, Dr. Nathan Hare

Oakland gave Warrior Queen Dr. Julia Hare a home going celebration befitting a royal Black African queen in the hell's of North America. It was a power to the people's farewell at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, the anchor venue in the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor from the lower bottom to Lake Merritt. 

The celebration began with a Blues musical interlude by San Francisco Blues brothers, Jethro on sax/vocals, accompanied by Mike on guitar. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga gave the libation in the Yoruba tradition, followed by Minister of Poetry, Marvin X, who delivered in Arabic Surah Al Fatihah and Surah Al Ikhlas. He told the audience, "I am not going to translate, you  felt the vibration, that's good enough!"  

Representatives of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's office, District Director Tatyana Kalinga and Staff Assistant Antonio Burnett, presented Dr. Nathan Hare with a framed copy of the Congressional Record in honor of Dr. Julia Hare.

Legendary Black Arts Movement poet Avotcja  read a poem in honor of Dr. Julia Hare, followed by Blues/Mack Man Fillmore Slim singing St. James Infirmary, made famous by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Blue Bland, among others. Marvin requested Fillmore do the Satchmo version, but Fillmore liked the Bobby Blue Bland version,  He began with the Bobby Blue Bland version, sax solo by Jethro, and  closed with the Satchmo version. The audience was overjoyed. Fillmore told Marvin, "I think I put myself on another level today!" The poet agreed.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee entered and sat at the table with her representatives.

When called to the mike, she gave honor and praises to Dr. Julia Hare as her shero! "When I  first heard her, I wanted to be like her! Julia set the model of black women  talking truth to power!"

The celebrants viewed the video of Julia's last hurrah, when she stole the show from other prominent "leading blacks" on Tavis Smiley's Black Forum, see Youtube. If there was any doubt Julia was the female Malcolm X in delivery and wit, her performance on Tavis Smiley shut down any debate. The audience of thousands applauded her time after time. Although many have seen this video, those in the audience who had not were stupefied, in total shock at the bluntness and boldness of this Warrior Queen, yes, this Black Goddess in our time who has slipped into eternity.

The Minister of Poetry said, "Ok, people, we have heard from Dr. Julia Hare. Now, you are going to hear from Dr. Nathan Hare, who wrote a love song in praise of his Queen, "She Always Stood by me!" The entire essay was in the program, but Marvin began to read it with the Black Arts Movement Reader's Theatre, a newly formed dramatic group originated by the poet without prior knowledge of the participants. He began reading, then passed the mike to Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, who passed it to Tureeda, then to Dishonne Muhammad. Since the complete essay was in the program, the poet skipped to the last paragraph and ended. 

Bryant Bolling ended the reading singing Unforgettable, after which the celebration opened  for comments from the people, followed by the repast. Dr. Hare told the poet, "Marvin, I think you outdid yourself today!"


Dr. Ramona Tascoe

Norman Brown, Zakiyyah and Bryant Bolling, Dr. Hare, unidentified sister


Marvin X

The Marvin X Family Memorial for three first cousins in Sacramento today

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The Marvin X Jackmon/Murrill/Conley/Benjamin/Lee 
Family Memorial for Cousins Stan, Faye and Sandra Murrill 
Sacramento 4/8/19

"My God, be strong my brother!"--Dr. Cornel West to Marvin X on learning of the transition of X's cousins in Sacramento, West's hometown. FYI, West's cousin, Kwame Satterfield, is Marvin's stepson. What a small and wonderful world!

 Stan the Man!

Faye and Sandra Murrill

This morning I rode to Sacramento with my daughter, Attorney Amira Jackmon, and granddaughter Naima to attend the memorial service for my three first cousins, Stan, Faye and Sandra Murrill, siblings who died within three weeks from various causes. We arrived in Sac at the hall where the memorial took place. My daughter was hesitant about attending as she doesn't know her paternal cousins, but once there she fell into the groove of discovering her relatives on my side of the family. She knew a few of them but not most of them, especially those her age and younger. My granddaughter hardly knew any of them. 

Marvin X, Sister Debbie and Brother Tommy

As I sat next to my sister Debbie with our baby brother, Tommy, I asked Naima did she know Tommy is my brother, She replied yes since she had attended a party at his house over the weekend in Sacramento. My cousin Rodney Murrill came over to our table and chatted. We used to look so much alike people confused me with him and him with me. Then I embraced one of my cousin Kathy's daughters, Amber, that so resembled my sister Suzy it was frightening. DNA is a mother! My nephew Monti Hall and his son, Chris, sat down at our table. Although Monti Hall interviewed me for a grad school paper for his MSW at USC, and I thought so highly of the paper that I made it the preface to my Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X, Monti had no seen a printed copy of the book so I gave him a copy and his son, Chris, as well. My brother Tommy immediately asked Monti to autograph his copy. In the deep structure of this family conversation is the fact that my brother Tommy, my nephew Monti and my son, Marvin K, grew up as brothers, and all three became estranged from me for various reasons, partly political because although I refused to serve in the US military, Tommy and Monti joined the Navy and Army respectively and essentially became right wing Negroes who wanted nothing to do with my radical ideological notions. But Monti reconciled with me enough to interview me for his MSW. Tommy told one of my sisters, "I love my brother, Marvin, we just opposites!" My son, Marvin, doesn't deal with me at all. No matter!

The memorial service began with my departed cousin Faye's son, Byron, officiating. Byron noted that his mother had taught him how to handle details, and he learned well from his mother. For example, Byron is a manager at the DMV in Oakland. When I came to the DMV to renew my driving license, Bryon was on his job. When a clerk told me I needed a certain amount of money to renew, and I didn't have the money on my, Byron said, "Cuz, don't come to the DMV with no money!" I departed to the bank to get some money and returned to handle my bizness. 

Byron told the story of being in the car with his mother and aunt, Sandra. He said one was hot and one was cold, so he didn't know what to do. He thought of turning on the heater and letting the window down simultaneously. Perhaps the sisters were going through menopause. And then he spoke his uncle Stan II, the wild man, hustler, revolutionary, Stan the Man, Butterball, the man everyone loved because he had a heart of gold and was, in the family tradition, raw and blunt to the max. But Stan had a certain charisma that was overwhelming. Byron and other nephews and nieces spoke on his ability to attract people, especially, women with his charming good looks, Jesus hair style and clean dressing. 

Byron was followed by Ron Conley, maternal uncle of the deceased, but he was overwhelmed by the moment. Two nephews testified how their aunts treated them but most especially how Stan gave them manhood training when they visited for summers. Let's be clear, this family drama began in Fresno, no matter the Murrills, Conleys, Jackmons, and even the Lee's, although they mostly lived in Modesto where the oldest Murrill brother, Adam, resided. Marvin's favorite cousin was Carol Lee, daughter of Adam. As a teenager, Marvin used to party with his cousins in Modesto. They were into Jazz, Johnny Walker Red, MJQ, Ahmad Jamal, as well as Sam Cooke. The last time Marvin saw Sam Cooke was at a concert in Stockton that he attended with his Modesto cousins. One of the Modesto cousins came to him at the memorial, reminding him who she was and gave him the health status of his Modesto cousins. 

The truth is that many family members who had lived in the central valley, Fresno, Modesto, Madera, Merced, eventually moved up the valley  to Sacramento, including the Murrill's, Lee's, Benjamin's, Conley's and Jackmon's.

Nieces told of how detailed Faye was, how into fashion Sandra was, who told them the seasonal fashion colors that they cared nothing about. But even on dialysis, they said Sandra went in fashion. Cousin Connie's sons, Alphonso and Eric, told of how their Uncle Stan gave them game and manhood training. 

Murrill/Jackmon family, left to right: LaTanya Murrill Toney, Amira Jackmon, Rodney Murrill, Debra Jackmon, Patsy Murrill, Marvin X, Tommy Murrill Willis, Monti Hall, Naima Jackmon Douglas

After I spoke saying my cousins were like brothers and sisters, somebody shouted, "Sometimes better than brothers and sisters!" I continued, "But my uncle Stan was not only the single father of six children, he was my surrogate father as well, the man determined to make me a man in the absence of my father. Further, in adulthood, when I visited Sacramento as a writer, Stan, Sandra, Faye and their siblings supported me. When I was a featured author at the Sacramento Black Book Fair, Stan kicked it with me at my hotel suite, but when he requested I come spend the night on his couch, I declined his hospitality although I loved him madly, yet, I told the audience, Stan loved me more than I loved myself. He spoke of me constantly, even in my absence. He distributed my books in his apartment complex and throughout the hood. He took me to his neighbor's apartment, Fillmore Slim, who purchased my books and has been a friend ever since. I ended the comments section of the service with a recitation of Surah Al Fatihah in Arabic, then the repast began.


We give thanks and praise to Bryon Murrill for organizing this memorial under great stress, trauma and grief. We pray our family will heal in due time. As the Qur'an says, "After difficulty comes ease!"
--Marvin X
4/8/19




Parable of No Fall Insurance

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Poet Marvin X, Sister Debbie, Brother Tommy

Consciousness and prayerfulness is the only insurance against falling. In youth, the African proverb says to stumble is not to fall but to go forward faster. In elderhood, a fall can be fatal, can end life.
There was a man who descended steps without watching his steps, soon he fell. To fall in youth is no matter, to fall in elderhood can be fatal, especially when no one is with the elder, thus he falls alone and msay remain so for days unto death. So take care of elders. How you take care of elders will determine how youth and young adults shall take care of you. How you treat your teachers will determine how your students shall treat you. Honor your teachers and your students shall honor you!e

I love Cydni  Lauper's Time After Time, especially the Miles Davis versions in Japan and Germany. But imagine the message, "If you fall, I will catch you, time after time, time after time." We must be there to catch our elders from falling, time after time. And there shall be those who shall catch us time after time, the next generation of children and youth. Let the circle be unbroken! Let the dead, living and yet unborn be blessed with this surety of truth and good deeds to those deserving such.

Let children honor elders, let elders honor children. No fall insurance. No Sisyphus syndrome, no rock up the hill to fall again for eternity. Catch the rock, catch the baton across the finish line. No stumble no fall, no woman no cry!

We must pray descending every step, praise your Lord and watch that last step across the finish line.
The last step will get you, deceive you with the slip of your mind that you have finished the Sisyphusian myth yet one step remains. Guard against being deceived by self.
--Marvin X
4/9/19

Hapi 86 b day, Dr. Nathan Hare by Marvin X

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 Sunset at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner




Dr. Nathan Hare enjoyed his 86th birthday at San Francisco's Cliff House on Ocean Beach. We selected the Cliff House because he and Julia (RIP) lived in the area during the 1968 BSU/Third World Strike at San Francisco State University to establish Black and Ethnic Studies. When I drove him to Ocean Beach shortly after the demise of his wife of 62 years, he suddenly came alive with memories of eating at the Cliff House, jogging on the beach and sipping wine by the fireplace at their apartment. I invited Julia's close friend, Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter. Although Amelia said she was on her way to SF City Hall to observe a meeting on the closing of Juvenile Hall, she agreed to meet us at 7PM.



Dr. Nathan Hare, Marvin X, Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter Newspaper at San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant for Dr. Hare's 86 b day
photo Adam Turner

We wanted a seat by the window but had to wait, so we went out on the balcony for photographer Adam Turner to depict Dr. Hare looking at the ocean. It was too cold and windy for Amelia, so she went inside during the photo shoot.







 Marvin X and Dr. Nathan Hare looking at the Pacific Ocean
photo Adam Turner

Over dinner, we discussed many things, e.g., how Dr. Julia Hare mentored and advised Amelia, especially while raising her manchild in the promised land as a single parent. Dr. Hare recalled those phone calls. Dr. Hare reminded Amelia that when Julia was asked a difficult question, she would turn to him for the answer as Amelia waited on the phone. Dr. Hare said he deeply appreciated Amelia and I for giving Julia memorial services in San Francisco and Oakland. 

Dr. Hare, Amelia and Marvin deciding what to eat.
photo Adam Turner

Dr. Hare ordered crab cakes, Amelia, Adam and I ordered New York steak. The men enjoyed a bottle of Merlot, Amelia drank ice tea. Amelia showed us the many pics of  herself with VIPs, including Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor London Breed, Barack and Mechelle Obama, Dick Gregory, et al. 

We were all full after the meal and didn't want dessert but the Cliff House gave Dr. Hare something special for his birthday. 



Dr. Nathan Hare, 86
photo Adam Turner


"Hapi b day, Dr. Nathan Hare. We love you madly!"
--Marvin X
photo Adam Turner

Parable of the man who didn't want to leave prison

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"Sir, your time is up and you must leave prison now, without delay!""Please, the man cried, "I don't want to leave prison, my family is here, I have no family outside these walls. There is nothing for me outside. Even my friends who've passed on are over there in the prison cemetery."
"Sir, for the last time, pack your belongings and depart now. Your presence is not wanted. You cause disturbance even when in solitary confinement. Your words get out to the others in the general population so we want you to go now. What part don't you understand?"
"What if I bust you upside the head, would you return me to my cell?"
"No, sir, by no means. We want you outta here now. Let's go! Pack your shit, roll it up!"
"I'm not going nowhere!"
"Yes you are. Security, come git dis nigger outta here. I'm the warden but if dis nigger don't leave I'm leavin'."

So the man who didn't want to leave prison departed. He wanted to stay but the authorities demanded he depart. They told him they knew who he was and did not want him infecting the prison population with his radical ideas. Actually, the guards threw him out the prison gates, punching him in the ribs with their nightsticks, making him break down into tears, but once they had him outside the prison gates they slammed the gates shut in relief he was gone, no matter where.
--Marvin X
2/19/19




Breaking News: Dr. Nathan Hare hospitalized

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Breaking News

Dr. Nathan Hare hospitalized due to a possible stroke. He is fine and should be released tomorrow.


Sunset at Ocean Beach, San Francisco
photo Adam Turner

I am Queen Julia



Queen Julia Speaks

In the name of Oshun  Yemanja
goddesses of oceans seas rivers steams
love me in my eternity
spirit essence
indomitable
unsurpassed  
unequal
with all my breath
I spoke truth to power
beyond fortune fame
I did not come in the name of gold
my name is worth more than gold
I came in the name of beauty and truth
study my words
study my life as queen wife
nathan hare
 my king for life
Sisters
I swam out to me my king
I didn't wait for my ship to come in
my message to sisters
love yourself
only then
you can love your mate
love is all 
nothing else
no money
no shoes
dresses
wigs
love is all 
no need new lovers
same lover
different name
don't focus on problem
find solution
new relation
same problem
you
woman/man in mirror
look
love you
then somebody else
must be  friend
to have  friend
must be lover
to be loved
enjoy good times
when bad times come
roll with punches
don't  flee
another lover
same problems
different name.
--Marvin X
4/11/19



Dr. Nathan Hare enjoyed his 86th birthday at San Francisco's Cliff House on Ocean Beach. We selected the Cliff House because he and Julia (RIP) lived in the area during the 1968 BSU/Third World Strike at San Francisco State University to establish Black and Ethnic Studies. When I drove him to Ocean Beach shortly after the demise of his wife of 62 years, he suddenly came alive with memories of eating at the Cliff House, jogging on the beach and sipping wine by the fireplace at their apartment. I invited Julia's close friend, Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter. Although Amelia said she was on her way to SF City Hall to observe a meeting on the closing of Juvenile Hall, she agreed to meet us at 7PM.



Dr. Nathan Hare, Marvin X, Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter Newspaper at San Francisco's Cliff House Restaurant for Dr. Hare's 86 b day
photo Adam Turner

We wanted a seat by the window but had to wait, so we went out on the balcony for photographer Adam Turner to depict Dr. Hare looking at the ocean. It was too cold and windy for Amelia, so she went inside during the photo shoot.


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let light of truth shine
Julia Oshun
Julia Yemanja
Julia Isis searching earth for king's manhood Osiris Nathan Hare
crucified on cross of blackness consciousness community
black studies
black studies community model
no academia tenured negro finality
black studies
community
Julia
Harriet Tubman womanhoood
Sojourner Truth womanhood
Ida B. Wells womanhood
Amy Marcus Garvey womanhood
Clara Muhammad womanhood
Dr. Betty Shabazz womanhood
Queen Mother Moore Reparations womanhood
Sharazad Ali
Pam Africa
Angela Davis
Dessie X
Edith Austin
Kathleen Cleaver
Erika Huggins
Fania Davis
Angela Blackwell
Latifa Simon
Amelia Ashley
London Breed
Kamala Harris
Mechelle Obama
Mae Mallory
Fannie Lou Hamer "Tired of sick and tired, tired of being sick and tired!"

Jesus Julia
Woman, where  husband?
Woman at well said,
"Savior, I have  none!"
What Jesus  tell whore,
"Hoe' go
sin no mo'!"
Wait. What JC say,
"He/she without sin
cast first stone!"

Julia told pimp/hustler/dope dealer authors, Fillmore Slim, Mickey Moore, Gansta Brown, Jimmy Star, et al, "Don't feel guilty about your pimping/hustling life. We got ecclesiastical pimps every Sunday morning."

--Marvin X
4/11/19


Beyond horizon
beyond eternity
beyond oceans seas rivers
I see my lover Julia
calling me to join her
how can I be without her
what is life without my lover
I must join her
see her soon
how can she leave me here alone
this wretched earth
without my love supreme
thank you marvin x
returning me to Cliff House
julia and I dined  many times
in those days the Fat Lady laughed at Ocean Beach
we loved her laugh
as back then
tonight
Ocean Beach is cold
Julia and I loved our apartment fire place
used to light fire
drink wine
as the fire burned
look into each other's eyes
look of love
Oh, those days of love at Ocean Beach
thank you Marvin X
for tonight
thank you Amelia for coming too
thank you Adam for recording this moment
in eternity.
--Marvin X
4/11/19
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Cling to elders
stand on shoulders
devour elder wisdom
stupid shit
throw in dustbin of history
absorb what you can
you 21
elder 75,85, 95
what do you know
why reinvent wheel
break dance hip hop joy
hip hop freedom break dance
rap for freedom
fuck pussy and dick rap
rap liberation
Palestine style
Iraq Afghanistan
Syria Libya
no pants sagging
war
how you sag in war zone
usa war zone
mama cry every time you leave house
will black son come home
mama cry


por favor
spit
conscious rap
no P and D
pussy dick rap
Sun Ra say
Marvin X say
spit P and D
if you know
mythology pussy and dick
myth/ritual of Pussy and dick
you don't own the pussy
you don't own dick
chattel slavery over
chattel real, i.e., personal property
real estate: all other forms of ownership
you chattel real 400 years
now you married in chattel real?
Woman said, "I know I'm just a slave/ho in disguise of a wife!"
thank you Julia and Nathan, 62 years of marriage. These days we can't endure 62 minutes!Yes, I speak for myself."



Over dinner, we discussed many things, e.g., how Dr. Julia Hare mentored and advised Amelia, especially while raising her man child in the promised land as a single parent. Dr. Hare recalled those phone calls. Dr. Hare reminded Amelia that when Julia was asked a difficult question, she would turn to him for the answer as Amelia waited on the phone. Dr. Hare said he deeply appreciated Amelia and I for giving Julia memorial services in San Francisco and Oakland. 

Dr. Hare, Amelia and Marvin deciding what to eat.
photo Adam Turner

Dr. Hare ordered crab cakes, Amelia, Adam and I ordered New York steak. The men enjoyed a bottle of Merlot, Amelia drank ice tea. Amelia showed us the many pics of  herself with VIPs, including Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor London Breed, Barack and Mechelle Obama, Dick Gregory, et al. Dr. Hare said, "People want to know what I am going to do in my apartment by myself. Do you think I am scare of ghosts? I'm a scientist, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in God, you must prove to me God exists!"

We were all full after the meal and didn't want dessert but the Cliff House gave Dr. Hare something special for his birthday. 



Dr. Nathan Hare, 86
photo Adam Turner


"Hapi b day, Dr. Nathan Hare. We love you madly!"
--Marvin X
photo Adam Turner


A drink of Melot for Julia at the Cliff House

This sip of  Melot is for you
my darling dear
Julia
let you enjoy this sip of your love
sweet wine of your love
62 years of  love
Julia
you are my essence
my reason to smile
my reason of  joy
yes
you came of  age with me
transcended the
black bourgeoisie world of make believe
conspicuous consumption
Frazier talked about
Black Bourgeoisie
no bourgeoisie you
after my revolutionary lessons
you listened learned
no more world of make believe
black nationalism world
black love lives world
Amina Baraka says
my husband educated me
Julia same
my husband made me a revolutionary!
I thank him
Nathan
darling dear
thank you
thank you
thank you
--marvin x

Parable of the rich man and his son

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A rich man called to bless his friend but the friend's phone was off so he missed the call. Later he saw the rich man had called so when he returned the call, the rich man told him he needed to keep his phone on because he wouldn't know when somebody wanted to bless him. And the clean and sober rich man chided his friend, "And you need to stop drinking that alcohol so you can answer your phone!" The friend told the rich man where he would be working this day. The rich man asked how long he would be there? The friend said all day. The rich man said okay, I might come through. After a short time the rich man arrived with his wife and handed his friend a wad of money. The friend was busy with a customer and had other money in his hand so he didn't bother to count the bills from the rich man until he finished with his customer. It was a generous donation so he thanked the rich man for his generosity. The friend knew God/Allah sent this blessing because he needed to make a trip to visit sick relatives but the money he had was for other projects. Now he could visit his relatives. The rich man's wife so something she wanted buy from the friend but when they friend tried to give it to her for free, she refused to take it for free, instead she opened an envelop and gave him a small but generous donation. The friend asked the rich man if it was ok to accept this donation from his wife, after all, the rich man had been generous and the friend didn't was to appear greedy. The rich man said it was ok with him because it was her money, even though he had given it to her. He said they were going to a restaurant for dinner and would talk later. They departed.

Since he was blessed, he packed the items he was selling and departed home, first stopping by the grocery store for a few items to eat. As he was pushing the shopping cart down aisle, a young man came up beside him that he didn't immediately recognize and when he did, he refused to acknowledge he knew the young man who kept calling him unk, unk, unk. It was the rich man's son he hadn't seen in a long time and he seemed to have aged from the stress of life, even though his father was rich. The friend told the son he had something for him and to meet him outside the store. They arrived at the cashier stands across from each other. The son could see his "unk" handed the cashier a hunid dollar bill as she packed his bags. They walked outside and the friend went to his car to get a gift for his "nephew".The adopted nephew thanked his unk. Unk said,"So how you doing man, what's up? When you talk with your father? The nephew replied, "I talked with him last night." The friend said,"You know your father's rich, boy, you need to straighten up so you can accept your kingdom."
The nephew said,"Yeah, him and my mom be going on cruises every week!" The friend/unk repeated, "You need to straighten up so you can accept your kingdom! So how you doing otherwise?"
"Shit, unk, I'm flat broke." Unk reached into his pocket and handed his nephew fifty dollars." The young man thanked his unk and they departed. The friend thought about how many times the rich man had told him his son was an ungrateful bastard!
--Marvin X
4/13/19

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Some ancestors ain't nothin nice

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Some Ancestors Ain't Nothin Nice


Ancestors
Who are the real motherfuckers
who fucked our fathers and mothers
onto good ship jesus
door of no return
sea of blood and bones
sharks and wail
who sold us to the ghost
Baraka say
ancestors we call you in the name of nigguhs
black nigguhs in the hoods of america
not pseudo black kemetic fakes and frauds
scared to see the new imperial king of the realm
too blind by the Sun of Ra to find a bone at pyramid
search in vain year after year
earth is ours
no matter Africa
no matter Arabia
no matter Asia
no matter Americas
no matter Europe
earth is the black man's land
Gullahland is Africa
Africa is Mississippi Alabama Georgia, New Orleans
claim land forever hold tongues
see pyramids of Louisiana Moorish mounds
Seminoles of Florida
Gullahs Geeches up and down coast
ancestors all
fucked by the motherfucker
king and queen motherfucker son of a bitch
male rape child rape mother rape by devil king and queen
massa mistress
miss ann mr ann
motherfuckers all
guilty
charged
Sun Ra say pay
Africa pay too like the white man/woman  devil pay
yeah, Africa pay
gold diamonds precious metals everywhere
pay
no pay europe and pay negro
you  african motherfucker led us to ship with red flag
through door of no return
warrior now bitch
pants sagging bitch
raped in front of women/children
man whore kept us alive sexing master
massa wanted all women men  children
greedy bastard
talk of king's english
fuck english
fuck every word of it
fuck you too
you speak it
love it
seek to purify it
don't say n word
b word
mf
f
p
d
fake asses
let ancestors be cursed for their iniquities
debaucheries
selling of souls in centuries of time
you call them holy
call Mississippi holy
call Alabama Georgia Louisiana Carolina holy ground
marsh swamp bayous rivers creeks
holy trees of strange fruit blood wine
call ancestors from woods forests
call from  pine trees moss wood
call rice cane cotton fields
plantation
wicked cities of death in the family
Clara wanted to put head in oven
in detroit of her time
Elijah drunk as a coot she said
Master Fard came selling red silk
same red we followed to shore
red for blood
king sold farmer to ghost, Baraka said
Baraka say railroad in ocean bottom
filled with bones
ancestor bones resisted wailed cried shitted
vile moans shouts screams to the motherfucker
son of a bitch ancestor king
pitted tribe against tribe warrior against warrior
man against woman for trinkets barrels of rum
we yet praise them
in our abject ignorance
culture of madness and gold
madness and diamonds
madness and chopped hands clitoris legs
no end even today
kings and queens alive and well
presidents prime ministers
working overtime to feed themselves full
as we whore and rape each other into night of full moon
where silence is loud world over
silence of hunger disease
silence of ignorance demands king for life
never end terror
never avenge righteous
plunder til new kingdom comes
wicked reduced to dust
motherfucker receives his fucking
Amen.
--Marvin X
4.17.09
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