Marvin X: Let the White Man stay white! Notes on the Sun Ra tradition from the other side of time!
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Black Arts Movement poet/playwright Marvin X and BAM Master Sun Ra outside Marvin's Black Educational Theate, Fillmore District, San Francisco, 1972. Sun Ra arranged the music for Marvin's musical version of his play Flowers for the Trashman, renamed Take Care of Business, 1972. Both taught in the Black Studies Department at University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Sun Ra's UCB lectures are on Youtube in four parts. Marvin's archives were acquired by the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. .
It is the greatest Black historian, Joel A. Rogers, who best demonstrated the pervasiveness and most profound degree African blood infused Europeans (see his many works). Of course these days, most people with a modicum of intelligence submit to the fact the human race originated in Africa which includes Asia. Fantastic Negritos (the little Blacks or aboriginals) have been found throughout the world, Europe, Asia, the Americas and most islands of the seas.
As per any pure Europeans in America, how can this be possible after 400 years of miscegenation? Did not the founding fathers have a field day enjoying the sexual pleasures of enslaved African women, men and children, including sex with their own interracial children, after which they sold their children at market rate on New Year's Day, the most dreaded day in the life of kidnapped African enduring the American slave system (Ed Howard term). New Year's Day was the slave auction day, when mates, mothers,fathers and children, were paraded on the auction block and sold down the river to the highest bidder. Again, the products of the slave master's lust and incest were sold as well, such was the heartless soul of the master who sold his chattel real (personal property as opposed to real estate, if I may correct W.E.B. DuBois who said we were real estate).
So any notion of pure European Americans or pure North American Africans is mostly poppycock, with the exception of those Gullah/Geeche North American Africans who lived on the isolated South Carolina, Georgia islands and maintained a certain degree of purity in their bloodline even down to today.
As per European Americans, I recall reading an article in the 60s in Liberator Magazine that claimed there were 60 million Europeans who were in fact North American Africans since the rule was one drop of Black blood made the European a nigger or shall we say African!
In light of the above, how many European Americans can claim racial purity? Alas, we think it is not so much their desire to claim racial purity but rather to cling to mythological notions of whiteness that, in the words of James Baldwin, "has led them to rationalizations so fantastic it approaches the pathological!"
Yes, pathological, a break with reality. They are infused with African blood, yet they adamantly desire to claim total whiteness. Even in the interracial North, European mothers married to North American African man, will yet desire their mixed-race children to identify with their whiteness, even when their children have pronounced African features. So this is a psycho-mythological conundrum that forces the children into the tragic mulatto syndrome and trauma best decried by Prince, "Am I Black, am I White?"
Of course, there are those who say the race issue is in fact a class issue, especially as per racial hatred. And it is true the class problem between North American Africans and poor whites was a divide and conquer technique used by the slave owning class and later capitalists to keep the former Africans yet trapped in the American Slave System (E.Howard term) and keep the poor whites enduring minimum wages. The racial myths were exploited by the ruling class to divide and conquer the socalled emancipated Africans and the poor whites. Also, in my travels in the South, I was told repeatedly the ruling class Europeans treat the poor whites worse than they treat us North American Africans. Naturally, their wretched lower class condition made them jealous and envious of us and propelled the poor whites to join the KKK, most often led by, yes, ruling class whites!
As per class, we would think both oppressed groups would unite at some point. But so often the demagogues intervene and make such class unity impossible by fanning the flames of racial hatred with propaganda that Blacks want their jobs or their women or both and more, whatever more is!
And yet, the supreme irony is revealed in the classic poem of Bay Area poet Paradise Jah Love, in his poem They Love Everything About You But You!" And this goes for all classes and ethnic groups that are non-African/Black:
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Poet Paradise Jah Love reading his classic They Love Everything About You But You!
photo credit Daniela Kantorova
Let me give a rough paraphrase of his poem, and may Paradise forgive me for butchering his classic poem.
They love the black meat
love the black beat
love the black night
love the black might
love the black earth
love the black space
love the black sex
they love everything about you
but you
love the black neighborhood
but not the black neighbor
love the black woman
but not the black man
they love everything bout you but you....
love the black skin
love the black tan
love everything bout you but you....
This love/hate relationship of Europeans toward Africans is universal and trans-class, from right, left,liberal/conservative, revolutionary/reactionary. We have held events with my liberal white patrons with sincere hearts but could not deal with the bold, radical sisters who had to check the white sisters at every turn who wanted to dominate is the best tradition of white supremacy addiction.
Is this not why SNCC told the liberal whites to go home to their people and help them recover from their addiction to white supremacy--which they never did and thus is the reason we are at the present precipice, about to descend into the chasm of darkness and dread! After all, the liberal whites had not themselves recovered from their addiction to white supremacy, thus they could not help their families. So ignorant were they that their liberal psychosis blinded them from seeing the utter trauma of their poor white brothers and sisters who had no choice but to cling to their vestiges of white nationalism. It was not solely a reaction to the first Black President, rather, a reaction to the hopelessness of their mythological notions of white supremacy!
Can one imagine the white psychological trauma of absorbing the reality of a nigguh in the White House? Can one then imagine the most urgent psychological need to flip the script and return their mental equilibrium to the status que of, yes, the White House and the House of White Nationalism.
And yet, the tragedy is that Obama was as much a white nationalist as any KKK in the South, except he did so in Globalist terms and actions. Did he not have a list of people he murdered around the world on a weekly basis? Is this the agenda of the first Black President?
Por favor, North Americans were so duped with the idea of the first Black President (and I among them--and my revolutionary brothers kicked my ass for thinking he was other than an imperialist--and in the end they were ideologically correct--thank you Lil' Joe, et al).
Thus, we are totally overwhelmed with the utter shock and awe at Trump and Trumpitis, i.e., the sudden surprise in the minds of certain white people that their lower class brothers and sisters are clinging to white nationalism, as if the alt-left is not themselves guilty of left-wing white supremacy. Alas, were not those Democratic Party sycophants guilty of supporting the Hillary Clinton crime machine of global white nationalism with its multi-cultural vicissitudes? How could one be for Hillary after all her global iniquities with the Russians, Saudi Arabia, and her worse slime ball activity with the rape of Haiti? Let us not say nothing of her worship of Margaret Sanger and her black baby death dealing abortion program that morphed into Planned Parenthood?
And so, let us get to why we must let white people stay white!
let white people stay white
the little white they have left
let them stay white
in the day
in the night
stay white white people
love yr selves white
chinese chinese
mexicans la raza la raza la raza
white people stay white
just don't hurt black brown yellow
be white
imagine in yr fantasy
you won the civil war
in yr mind white beyond reality you won
fly yr flag
adore your statues of yr civil war heroes
we may and will tare them down but
they are your heroes of defeat
are you that sick
enjoy yourself
the South won in your sick mind
you found the to black slavery again
prisons
jails
prisons
under USA Constitution
rejoice
slavery makes you happy
how long will this go on
how long
say the song
how long
masquerade
parade
through streets
with sheets and guns
enjoy yr fun
just know we ain't in yo show
we free and die to be
we free
and die to be!
--Marvin X
Black August
2017
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Let us conclude with the notion that all peoples have the right to be what they consider the mythological notion of themselves, whether fantasy or reality. If they desire to be European white nationalists or African Black Nationalists, let them do so as long as they do not cause harm to anyone. If they cry La Raza la raza la raza, let them do so as long as they do not harm others. We Africans have the human right to cry in the words of our hero Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans, those at home and those abroad! One God, one aim, one destiny!"
When Jews cry, "We are the chosen people of God," let them do so in their mythological fantasy, along with the Chinese who said, "God is the Chinese people!"
There are those who don't want to see the Confederate flay fly. As per North American Africans, I say, fly your flag, the Red, Black and Green and assert your nationhood. You shall have enough work to do in this endeavor and will have little time to worry about the European flags, including the stars and stripes and the Confederate flag.
If you must consume your time deconstructing symbols of the Civil War and Jim Crow, do so but just know, you must establish monuments of your heroes and sheroes. And remember ancestor Amiri Baraka's poem:
Wise I
WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
It is the greatest Black historian, Joel A. Rogers, who best demonstrated the pervasiveness and most profound degree African blood infused Europeans (see his many works). Of course these days, most people with a modicum of intelligence submit to the fact the human race originated in Africa which includes Asia. Fantastic Negritos (the little Blacks or aboriginals) have been found throughout the world, Europe, Asia, the Americas and most islands of the seas.
As per any pure Europeans in America, how can this be possible after 400 years of miscegenation? Did not the founding fathers have a field day enjoying the sexual pleasures of enslaved African women, men and children, including sex with their own interracial children, after which they sold their children at market rate on New Year's Day, the most dreaded day in the life of kidnapped African enduring the American slave system (Ed Howard term). New Year's Day was the slave auction day, when mates, mothers,fathers and children, were paraded on the auction block and sold down the river to the highest bidder. Again, the products of the slave master's lust and incest were sold as well, such was the heartless soul of the master who sold his chattel real (personal property as opposed to real estate, if I may correct W.E.B. DuBois who said we were real estate).
So any notion of pure European Americans or pure North American Africans is mostly poppycock, with the exception of those Gullah/Geeche North American Africans who lived on the isolated South Carolina, Georgia islands and maintained a certain degree of purity in their bloodline even down to today.
As per European Americans, I recall reading an article in the 60s in Liberator Magazine that claimed there were 60 million Europeans who were in fact North American Africans since the rule was one drop of Black blood made the European a nigger or shall we say African!
In light of the above, how many European Americans can claim racial purity? Alas, we think it is not so much their desire to claim racial purity but rather to cling to mythological notions of whiteness that, in the words of James Baldwin, "has led them to rationalizations so fantastic it approaches the pathological!"
Yes, pathological, a break with reality. They are infused with African blood, yet they adamantly desire to claim total whiteness. Even in the interracial North, European mothers married to North American African man, will yet desire their mixed-race children to identify with their whiteness, even when their children have pronounced African features. So this is a psycho-mythological conundrum that forces the children into the tragic mulatto syndrome and trauma best decried by Prince, "Am I Black, am I White?"
Of course, there are those who say the race issue is in fact a class issue, especially as per racial hatred. And it is true the class problem between North American Africans and poor whites was a divide and conquer technique used by the slave owning class and later capitalists to keep the former Africans yet trapped in the American Slave System (E.Howard term) and keep the poor whites enduring minimum wages. The racial myths were exploited by the ruling class to divide and conquer the socalled emancipated Africans and the poor whites. Also, in my travels in the South, I was told repeatedly the ruling class Europeans treat the poor whites worse than they treat us North American Africans. Naturally, their wretched lower class condition made them jealous and envious of us and propelled the poor whites to join the KKK, most often led by, yes, ruling class whites!
As per class, we would think both oppressed groups would unite at some point. But so often the demagogues intervene and make such class unity impossible by fanning the flames of racial hatred with propaganda that Blacks want their jobs or their women or both and more, whatever more is!
And yet, the supreme irony is revealed in the classic poem of Bay Area poet Paradise Jah Love, in his poem They Love Everything About You But You!" And this goes for all classes and ethnic groups that are non-African/Black:
photo credit Daniela Kantorova
Let me give a rough paraphrase of his poem, and may Paradise forgive me for butchering his classic poem.
They love the black meat
love the black beat
love the black night
love the black might
love the black earth
love the black space
love the black sex
they love everything about you
but you
love the black neighborhood
but not the black neighbor
love the black woman
but not the black man
they love everything bout you but you....
love the black skin
love the black tan
love everything bout you but you....
This love/hate relationship of Europeans toward Africans is universal and trans-class, from right, left,liberal/conservative, revolutionary/reactionary. We have held events with my liberal white patrons with sincere hearts but could not deal with the bold, radical sisters who had to check the white sisters at every turn who wanted to dominate is the best tradition of white supremacy addiction.
Is this not why SNCC told the liberal whites to go home to their people and help them recover from their addiction to white supremacy--which they never did and thus is the reason we are at the present precipice, about to descend into the chasm of darkness and dread! After all, the liberal whites had not themselves recovered from their addiction to white supremacy, thus they could not help their families. So ignorant were they that their liberal psychosis blinded them from seeing the utter trauma of their poor white brothers and sisters who had no choice but to cling to their vestiges of white nationalism. It was not solely a reaction to the first Black President, rather, a reaction to the hopelessness of their mythological notions of white supremacy!
Can one imagine the white psychological trauma of absorbing the reality of a nigguh in the White House? Can one then imagine the most urgent psychological need to flip the script and return their mental equilibrium to the status que of, yes, the White House and the House of White Nationalism.
And yet, the tragedy is that Obama was as much a white nationalist as any KKK in the South, except he did so in Globalist terms and actions. Did he not have a list of people he murdered around the world on a weekly basis? Is this the agenda of the first Black President?
Por favor, North Americans were so duped with the idea of the first Black President (and I among them--and my revolutionary brothers kicked my ass for thinking he was other than an imperialist--and in the end they were ideologically correct--thank you Lil' Joe, et al).
Thus, we are totally overwhelmed with the utter shock and awe at Trump and Trumpitis, i.e., the sudden surprise in the minds of certain white people that their lower class brothers and sisters are clinging to white nationalism, as if the alt-left is not themselves guilty of left-wing white supremacy. Alas, were not those Democratic Party sycophants guilty of supporting the Hillary Clinton crime machine of global white nationalism with its multi-cultural vicissitudes? How could one be for Hillary after all her global iniquities with the Russians, Saudi Arabia, and her worse slime ball activity with the rape of Haiti? Let us not say nothing of her worship of Margaret Sanger and her black baby death dealing abortion program that morphed into Planned Parenthood?
And so, let us get to why we must let white people stay white!
let white people stay white
the little white they have left
let them stay white
in the day
in the night
stay white white people
love yr selves white
chinese chinese
mexicans la raza la raza la raza
white people stay white
just don't hurt black brown yellow
be white
imagine in yr fantasy
you won the civil war
in yr mind white beyond reality you won
fly yr flag
adore your statues of yr civil war heroes
we may and will tare them down but
they are your heroes of defeat
are you that sick
enjoy yourself
the South won in your sick mind
you found the to black slavery again
prisons
jails
prisons
under USA Constitution
rejoice
slavery makes you happy
how long will this go on
how long
say the song
how long
masquerade
parade
through streets
with sheets and guns
enjoy yr fun
just know we ain't in yo show
we free and die to be
we free
and die to be!
--Marvin X
Black August
2017
Let us conclude with the notion that all peoples have the right to be what they consider the mythological notion of themselves, whether fantasy or reality. If they desire to be European white nationalists or African Black Nationalists, let them do so as long as they do not cause harm to anyone. If they cry La Raza la raza la raza, let them do so as long as they do not harm others. We Africans have the human right to cry in the words of our hero Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans, those at home and those abroad! One God, one aim, one destiny!"
When Jews cry, "We are the chosen people of God," let them do so in their mythological fantasy, along with the Chinese who said, "God is the Chinese people!"
There are those who don't want to see the Confederate flay fly. As per North American Africans, I say, fly your flag, the Red, Black and Green and assert your nationhood. You shall have enough work to do in this endeavor and will have little time to worry about the European flags, including the stars and stripes and the Confederate flag.
If you must consume your time deconstructing symbols of the Civil War and Jim Crow, do so but just know, you must establish monuments of your heroes and sheroes. And remember ancestor Amiri Baraka's poem:
Wise I
WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!