BLAME IT ON MARVIN X!!!
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Have you seen it?
When is the last time you’ve walked downtown
Can’t believe what they’ve done
But, i know this, for sure
Gwon. Go ahead.
Hope the streets don’t call me out on this
But, i BLAME Marvin X!
He started it!
He and Immamu
The great Baraka
Elombe, Kwame, Maya, Abubadika, Ed Bullins, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure’
Bobby, Huey, Emory, Karenga, COBRA in Chi-town, Ishmael...
Yebo! They should all be held responsible!
Damn right, i blame Marvin X and ‘nem
For being the main instigators that has brought the world
More than 50 years
Five loooong decades-plus
Of terrifying White terrorists, including Reagan
While shaking up liberals
The nerve of him, the never of them
Waking up “Negroes”
When they’re trying to keep sleeping
Don’t know bout ya
But, i still blame Marvin X and ‘nem
Not just these miserable social conditions
Of vicious European and American global imperialist monopoly capitalist white terrorism
For causing all this
Particular unruly and unauthorized behavior
Firing up folks
Coast to coast
From the Atlantic to the Gulf to the Great Lakes to the Pacific and beyond
To the continent and around our diaspora
Especially among these brave youngsters
Who have no idea
What they’re up against
Or, how to be scared!
Ya can say what ya want
But, i’m calling him out
The truth is Marvin X and ‘nem are to blame.
He has to be completely out of his mind
For outrageously envisioning a safe, secure, valued CommUNITY of
Self-Determined African people with homes, banks, stores, theaters, cafes, galleries, vendors
And, no poo-poo. Ooops, typo. i meant no po-po
Calling it the “Black Arts Movement taking care of Our Business District”
In the Spirit of our Kemetic-like destroyed Greenwood-Archer-Pine “GAP” area in Tulsa, Never
In the center of Indigenous OHLONE-land
Renamed “oakland” by the European and American killer and raper
Raiders and 49’er gold diggers
Who else ya gonna blame, but Marvin X and ‘nem?
For confronting the City officials
To first recognize this Black Arts Movement District
Then demanding they put up some street signs and posters
To loudly declaring our sacred Red, Black and Green colors of Liberation!
So, it is, indeed, Marvin X and ‘nem
Who WE have to blame
Cause he has now taken the damn thang
To an even higher level
Without any prior notification
Or, “official” Invitation
Have you seen this outburst?
Witnessed all this dangerous art?
On every block! Every street! Even in some alleys.
And, to my amazement…
Not one broken window.
Go ahead
Let’s blame Marvin X and ‘nem
There they go again inspiring so many creative Spirits
And, Bold, Brave Amazing Souls
Who seem to have been set Free
And, given this precious Sacred Space
While confronting the deadly military armor, tear gas, hidden cameras, threats of arrests and jailings
And, drive-by shootings and murder
From Euro-American “white” military-trained terrorists
Along with this deadly virus from who knows where (at the moment)
i’m for blaming Marvin X and ‘nem
For issuing this Call to Create
With nothing to fight with
But their weapons of Warriors’ vigor
Unfiltered imagination and unabashed creativity
Nothing but pray cans, paint brushes, magic markers, sharpies
Plywood, concrete and asphalt
Or, the walls of the J.P. Morgan Chase bank robbers and their ilk
These newer versions of the Splash Sis-Stars and Brothers
With profound messaging
Representing the real World Champions GIANTS WE all be
Yebo. This dude, Baba Marvin X
Always stirring Up Trouble!
Among the Blacks! The Browns! The Yellows! The Reds!
Lighting matches with words
That have sparked the creation of these new and old Black and Beautiful images
Of Truth and Black Genius!
Fully expressing our global Black experience, echoing Baba ImHotep Byrd!
Shouting and Exercising Our Mighty and Unstoppable Black Power!
And, futuristic Black Life!
Yebo, ya damn right it’s his fault
So, please join and help me
In putting the blame right where it belongs
And, while WE are at it
Sharing our utmost Gratitude to...
Baba Marvin X!
And, his many Black Artist
And, especially MOVEMENT-building co-horts
Past, present and after he, and WE
Are Long Gone!
Ase`. Ase`. Ase’-O!
by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at
June 2020
comment by marvin x
ache', im humbled by yr praise poem. why u put me on front street lol i got enough haters wt daggers. one told me the other day to watch my step.
peace n love jahahara
mx