"Congresswoman Barbara Lee is the only Democrat Party member I love and respect. She stood alone in the US Congress against the war in Iraq. I love you, Barbara Lee!"--Marvin X
The Democratic Party has a spurious and dubious history. Firstly they were racist supporters of slavery and later Jim Crowism, i.e., virtual slavery after their inspired the murder of Reconstruction. But know this, the North and South conspired in disarming the 200,000 African troops who were decisive in winning the Civil War. I say (and I don't know who has said this before me, surely someone has, DeBois, et al.), "The disarming of those 200,000 freed Africans with guns has led directly to our present precipice. Imagine, even Right Wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas declared without armed self defense black manhood is imperiled, echoing our long history of armed resistance to white supremacy (See Negroes With Guns, Robert Williams; We Will Shoot Back, Akinyele Umoja; American Negro Slave Revolts, Herbert Aptheker, et al.).
If the 200,000 Africans with guns had refused to disarm, I highly suspect we would have an African Nation today, some semblance of a Nation of Islam, Republic of New Africa and/or some other viable national entity with concomitant reparations for the next 25 to 50 years as Elijah Miuhammad demanded. We would not be satisfied with our status as wage slaves, but would be respected as the warriors we are.
Since 1948, Israel has become one of the most powerful nations in the world. No matter, we are happy to see Hamas and Hezbollah refusing to disarm under any circumstances for security is the first duty of any people, any national entity. If we were a people with national consciousness, the police murder of us under the color of law would be unthinkable, The internecine violence in our hoods would be unacceptable and those who violated the peace would be sent into exile for life.
Having said the above, firstly, we need to know that some of our people are more loyal to the modern configuration of the Democratic Party than to Black people. During the early contest for the Democratic presidential election of Clinton/vs Obama, some of my friends who are Democratic Party sycophants, told me with enthusiasm that they were for the white woman, not Obama. They chided me for selling Obama T-Shirts. And other blacks chided me for hustling Obama T-Shirts, they said, "Marvin X, I thought you were a revolutionary not a capitalist?" I told them even revolutionaries need money. Matter of fact, I learned Capitalists and Communists go to the same banks. Further, the same arms merchants sell to both sides! After Obama won the nomination, my black Democratic loyalists submitted to Obama as the nominee.
Although as passionate poet, I was overwhelmed with the idea of a black president, but my more astute revolutionary comrades warned me not to drown in romantic notions of a black president. After all, they said, the continent of Africa has a plethora of black skinned Africans neo-colonial despots, presidents and prime ministers for life. Additionally, at Oakland's Merritt College, I came into black revolutionary consciousness with Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, et al., so I knew the treachery of black face white supremacists. I knew the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, the suppression and jailing of the African National Congress leaders, including the 27 year jailing of Nelson Mandela. At Oakland's Merritt College on Grove Street/aka MLKJr Drive, we studied the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Fidel Castro in Cuba, Mao in China, so I was indeed a starry-eyed idealist, a supreme romanticist in thinking Obama was the panacea to all our ills, including national liberation. Was I suffering the residue of my 12 year addiction to Crack cocaine?
No matter the cry of Globalism, internationalism, Pan Africanism, Pan Islam, yet nationalism is the cry of today around the world. Look at the recent election in England and the Left and Right wing nationalism globally. People everywhere want and need their national and/or tribal identities. In the coming non-white majority ruled world, we cannot blame white nationalists for their desire to hold onto their delusional idea of white power.
I do not condemn Donald Trump for appealing to his brothers and sisters to make white great again, no matter that it is the delusional cry of a people stepped in their world of make believe, a world grounded in psychosis of the worst kind, hence their addiction to opioids, meth, fentanyl, vaping and other drugs to medicate themselves from reality, for the more they cling to their white nationalism, the more it eludes them. A white man came by my Academy of da Corner on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue and proceeded to inform me he was a white nationalist, a white racist! I suppose I was supposed to be shocked by his admonition but I simply replied, "So what? I'm a black nationalist, be what you want to be. I am what I am." He continued down the street.
I have a similar attitude toward the Confederate flag, perhaps due to the fact I was born in California. The Confederate flag means nothing to me. My attitude is, "White man, fly your flag. I'm going fly the red, black and green African Universal flag designed by the Most Honorable Marcus Garvey." I don't give a motherfuck about the American flag, Confederate flag, the Gay/Lesbian flag or any other flag.
The red, black and green confirms my identity, that's all that matters to me. But FYI, the black gay brothers informed me the socalled gay flag does not represent them because they are still niggas in the gay/lesbian community. Yes, you can be gay, lesbian, trans, queer, but you still a nigga in America!
On the 100 year anniversary of the African Universal flag created by the Most Honorable Marcus Garvey, we must fly the red black and green throughout the hood to let the world know we are conscious of our African national identity.
When you enter the gay/lesbian/trans/queer community, especially in San Francisco, and you see their flag flying, you have a certain degree of respect for their community. It must and will be the same for our community. When you enter the hood and see our flag flying you will know don't come here with bullshit, just as when you enter a white neighborhood and see the red, white and blue flying, you carefully handle your business and make your exit, just as you will do in the gay/lesbian/trans/queer community.
America taught us majority rules but they are doing everything in their power to stem the rise of Chinese power, even though Europeans have lost sexual desire to procreate in the effusive passionate manner of Asians, Arabs, Africans and Latinos. In the game, they used to say how you start out is how you end up. Europeans began with the dog as their best friend. And we see today the dog is their best friend. Europeans have programmed us to kiss dogs in the mouth, yet we will not kiss each other in the mouth. Europeans have programmed us to love dogs more than we love human beings. They rather have dogs than babies.
All the above has relevance for the future of the Democratic Party generally and the 2020 presidential election in particular. As they found out in the 2016 election, no matter how smart they thought they were, the Democrats outsmarted themselves and Trump won the election. The Democrats obviously did not listen to the vibration in the deep structure of white hearts. In their supreme arrogance, Hillary Clinton and her sycophants thought they had the election in their bag of tricks, to the degree they played tricks with Bernie Sanders and Donna Brazile, head of the National Democratic Party. And if anyone was in league with the Russians, it was Hillary, not Donald Trump. In their supreme hubris, they have impeached President Donald Trump for trivial phone calls and shall soon go down in history for misreading their people, similar to what happened in England with the recent conservative victory.
It is not fake news when President Trump has improved the employment stats of North American Africans. Give the devil credit. I've written about Trump as the Devil in the Book of Job. Thus, all we need do is keep the faith of our ancestors. What did President Roosevelt tell you, "The only fear is fear itself" The devil has no power over you except when you exercise lack of faith which Job refused to do, even when his wife cried, 'Oh, Job, why don't you curse God and die?"
We think it is illogical to spend $700 billion for national defense yet cannot secure US borders. Further, did we hear Democrats crying crocodile tears for the annual trillion dollar defense budget? Yet, could we not greatly improve conditions in America and the North American African hoods rather than spend trillions on endless and eternal wars abroad for the benefit of retired generals now employed in the arms trade, not to mention the drug trade in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Malcolm X begged us not to be hoodwinked and bamboozled, yet we continue drinking the Kool Aid filled with poisonous sugar, pledging our loyalty to the Democratic Party with its Left Wing of socalled Democratic Socialists who sound like starry eyed idealists and those adorned with rose colored glasses, under the same delusion I was when I discarded my revolutionary acumen for the romanticism of the First Black President psychosis, yes, a break with reality.
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are not the panacea for North American African liberation. If we don't follow our agenda and leverage our voting power for our interests, we shall continue being sycophants for a dying white supremacist world.
--Marvin X
12/19/19