Marvin X Speaks:
Except those wearing rose colored glasses, ( the romantic idealists who succumb to the world of make believe, i.e., fake politics, fake news, fake religion, fake men and women, fake education, fake sex, fake love, yes, the 85 or 99 per cent ingtdeaf, dumb and blind peoples of this earth), we can see clearly as Ray Charles, "...The world is in an uproar, the danger zone is everywhere. Look around and you will see what's troubling me, the danger zone is everywhere...."
But Jesus said it best, "Be in this world but not of this world." We are doomed immediately when we buy into any myth-rituals of this world, for herein is the (Jesus again) beginning of sorrows. Once we accept any tribal, national, international, religious, political or gender myth-rituals, we subject ourselves to ideological dogmatism, sectarianism, provincialism of the worse kind, yes, in the extreme, we can become murderers, yes, psychopaths of every and any kind, haters of others; at the very least, willing to degrade those considered below us in the myth-ritual cultural hierarchy. Once we drink the Kool Aide of cultural superiority, our path to doom is clear: we become the sycophants of sects, cults, gangs, tribes, nations and other unknown formulations in this ever changing world as it marches toward doom.
We were told when the armies are drawn close to Jerusalem, know that the end is near. Are not the global armies in Syria.e.g.,Russia, USA, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, France, et al. , Syria, down the road from Jerusalem, from which Saul had his miraculous conversion into Paul on the road to Damascus?
In his little know classic, Race and Cultural Contacts in the Modern World, yes, beyond his sociological study Black Bourgeoisie, a classic itself, Dr. E. Franklin Frazier told us of the most horrific consequences of culture contacts in the modern world. He noted the diseases of the Europeans were more devastating than all their guns. But beyond their diseases that wiped out entire cultures and high civilizations, was their dominant quest to smash and demolish for all times, the cultural accomplishments of the cultures and civilizations they conquered.
And then in the greatest twist of irony, the white supremacy culture, adopted every cultural myth, ritual of said cultures and civilizations. They thought they were giving us Jesus, alas, a savior god known to us thousands of years before, with Osiris as the prototypical savior god of Crucifixion and Resurrection. A cursory study of Kemitic or Egyptian religion will begin with the myth of Osiris and Isis and their son Horas or Heru. See Kersey's The 16 Crucified Saviors Before Jeusus!
At this hour, we human beings are challenged to subscribe to world culture without discrimination, with love and appreciation for our differences, even though some differences are anathema to our personal and communal cultural sensibility. Get over it! Lakum dinukum waliya din, i.e., to you your way and to me mine.
No matter how backward and primitive the mores, religious practice and political habits of Saudi Arabia, even to the point of exporting religious terrorism, shall we deny USA/European Christian terrorism around the world. Who occupies over 150 military basis around the world? Who drones the world at their leisure? Why are you everywhere, yes, even beyond those Muslim terrorists, far beyond them in military might and utter destruction?
The question is who are the players and who is getting played? To unravel this conundrum will indeed take a rocket scientist. Without Supreme Wisdom, don't even think about solving this puzzle of human consciousness. We must begin at the beginning: Who is the Original Man?
Answer: The Aboriginal Asiatic Black Man and Woman, God and Goddess of the Universe.
Question: What is the duty of the god and goddess of the universe?
Answer: Their duty is to teach culture and civilization to the deaf, dumb and blind, the 85% or 99%.
The ten per cent are the blood suckers of the poor. The five per cent are the poor righteous teachers who sacrifice to teach the deaf dumb and blind, who are often hated and despised.
So let us go then to the end game of this matter
Warriors in a Warrior City: Oakland Warriors NBA Champions, But will the real warriors stand up in Oakland, City of Resistance to US Oppression
As we celebrate the NBA Warrior Victory, let us touch down with reality, Who are the real Wariors in Oakland? Who are the leaders, saviors, workers, marchers, in the city of champions. Those who don't know don't know Oakland has always been the City of Champions, yeers, in athletics at McClymonds High and later as revolutionary warriors for the freedom cause with the Black Panther Party. Never forget, Oakland is a Revolutionary City, a City of Resistance, don't let the Miller Lite crew make you drink the Miller Lite Kool Aide!
Yes, there is multi-culural war and there is multi-cultural united struggle. We can transcend our egos and rise to the greater cause of liberation, national, pan african and global, but, Elijah said self first.
First, North American African National Liberation. The North American African Peoples' Republic must be a reality in North America. WE need a holy space of our own for our own.
--Marvin X
Black Arts Movement