On Wednesday, December 26, 2018, 7:41:22 PM PST, Marvin X Jackmon wrote:
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Marvin X reading on the bench where he often wrote in solitude for five years, 99 per cent of the time he was alone. nor did he have sex during his five years writing and healing from the death of his son and partner, Oakland High School English teacher Marsha Satterfield. Kwame Satterfield is the first cousin of Dr.;Cornel West and the stepson of Marvin X. When Cornel comes to the Bay, Marvin often sits with the West family.
Poet/essayist Marvin X in the door of the apartment where he spent five years in solitude in Cherokee CA, down the road from :Paradise Ca. that was totally destroyed in the Camp Fire.
photo Adam Turner
Marvin X reading on the bench where he often wrote in solitude for five years, 99 per cent of the time he was alone. nor did he have sex during his five years writing and healing from the death of his son and partner, Oakland High School English teacher Marsha Satterfield. Kwame Satterfield is the first cousin of Dr.;Cornel West and the stepson of Marvin X. When Cornel comes to the Bay, Marvin often sits with the West family.
Dear friends, comrades and fellow artists:
In the name of the Black Arts Movement, we need your support to purchase a 11 1/2 acre property in Cherokee CA. This property was owned by my Patron Abdul Leroy James RIP. It is now owned by his brother Hasan Larry M James. The main house burned down in the recent Camp Fire that destroyed the entire town of Paradise. This property is a few miles away in Cherokee CA. The one bedroom apartment and two guest rooms remain in tact. I lived in solitude on the estate and occupied the still standing apartment for five years during which I wrote the following five books:
How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a manual based on the 12 Step Mode of AA
Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, essays
Land of My Daughters, poems
In the Crazy House Called America, essays
Wish I Could Tell You the Truth, essaysa
After five years of solitude, I experienced neural placidity, i.e., the transformation of my brain cells. BAM Master Sun Ra once said, "Where can the black man/woman go for RR?" Let us reply to Master Sun Ra, co-founder of BAM and Afro-Futurism, in the affirmative. Sunny, we have a space. But we must moveb expeditiously for investors made offers to Larry James on the day of our inspection of the property. Only minutes after Hasan James signed a modification of selling price. We may be able to convince Mr. James to grant us a 90 day option on the property, although is exhausted and suffering grief and sorrow at the transition of his beloved brother, Abdul.
West Oakland product, Real Estate investor Abdul Leroy James
Marvin X's Patron RIP, also patron of the Bay Area Black Arts and Liberation Movements.
Aside from supporting Marvin X's literary projects, Abdul helped produce Marvin's community projects:
Melvin Black Forum on Human Rights, Oakland Auditorium, 1979
National Conference of Black Men, Oakland Auditorium, 1980
One Day in the Life, a docudrama of Crack addiction and recovery, including Marvin's last encounter with his friend Black Panther Co-founder, Dr. Huey P. Newton, in a West Oakland Crack House, 1996-2002, the longest running black play in Northern California Black theatre history, a recovery community cult classic.
Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness Concert, San Francisco State University, 2001.
San Francisco Black Radical Book Fair, Tenderloin, San Francisco CA., 2004.
I give all honor and respect to my Patron Abdul LeRoy James RIP and his brother Hasan Larry James.
As result of the fire, the property is up for sale for $275,000. We would like to purchase the property for an artist's retreat and recovery center.
Most often in his five years of solitude, Marvin wrote on this bench, usually in the nude as there was nothing nearby except deer, wild turkeys, hawk. Visitors came and wanted to kill all living things. Marvin told them to kill nothing, e.g., birds, bees, ants, flies, spiders, nothing. When the bee comes into my house, I tell him to leave, tell the fly the same, even gnates.
If you would like to make a generous donation to obtain this beautiful land as a community property, please let me know ASAP. Your donation can be tax deductible. Thanks.
Sincerely,de
Marvin X
BAM Co-founder
510-575-7148
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X
in Philly to support Mumia Abu Jamal
I applaud Cornel West for his critique of Prez Obama. No one is above criticism. Cornel is right: we must respect him, secure him but check him!