James Baldwin
Father of Muslim American Literature
photo Doug Harris
When I published my manual How to Recover from the Addiction of White Supremacy (Type II, Dr. Nathan Hare), people emailed suggesting I should change the title to white lunacy, a more precise definition of the white mental state. And white lunacy is severe, a psychosis or total break with reality. Although I have not changed the title of my manual, I strongly concur with the reader who suggested lunacy was the issue. Alas, elder North American African were known to say, "Leave dem white folks 'lone, dey crazy!" True dat! They so crazy they think white supremacy/lunacy will last or be tolerated by the oppressed forever, that he has the necessary weapons to contain the desire to overthrow the white supremacy masters of the world and their sycophants, especially in black face. How many of these sycophants will need to neutralized for the masses to be free. Imagine, did you hear that Black police officer testify in Wash, DC that he went into total shock during the Turkey Fight on January 6. Can you believe that he didn't know he was a nigga? The nigga pig said he went into total breakdown when he heard the white boys call him the "N" word. I hate that fuckin' term, N word. Motherfucka if you mean nigga say nigga. This is the linguistics of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka said, "If you mean get off the sidewalk, say get off the sidewalk!" The BAM liberated the American language, especially as per North American Africans who were programmed to accept the massa's proper language, although the massa wasn't proper while he put whip lashes on the North American African's ass.
But the 60s was a linguistic revolution in the North American African community. Linguistic freedom was the catalyst of mental and physical freedom. Examine language in the BAM plays of Baraka, Bullins and Marvin X. In Post-BAM, August Wilson continued the tradition. Of course after the Last Poets came the rappers who went stone mad in their linguistic freedom.
Alas, they and their white producers made nigga, bitch, ho and motherfucka billion dollar words. The hip hop gansta rappers soon overwhelmed the conscious rappers in the BAM tradition, e.g., NWA, et al, along with the black exploitation nigga films that arrived to negate the revolutionary function of North American African linguistics during the BAM, i.e., reactionary rap buried BAM revolutionary lyrics and radical rap morphed into the nihilistic death language and beat expressing the basic language usage in the low information vibration hood. No matter revolutionary puritan ideologues and blacks steeped in narrow-minded dogmatic Christian and Muslim religiosity, objected to the BAM language, hip hop rap linguistics exploded across the planet. The world was suddenly full of niggas, bitches, hos and motherfuckas. Global youth culture rapped in the linguistic freedom that began in the Black Arts Movement that advanced the revolution. Free speech is a critical moment in the liberation struggle since radical speech was banned as profane and obscene. I say oppression is profane and obscene. I say what is worse, a man whose speech is full of motherfucka, bitch, ho, or a father guilty of incest with his daughter, mother and sister he turned out to be a ho? Who is truly guilty if "sin"? The poet or the father? The poet didn't have sex with his daughter, mother, son? Yet you seek to condemn him for profane and obscene linguistics? What is worse, speech or actions? Let us continue with the deconstruction of North American linquistics.
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, does not hesitate to tell audiences about the power of black language in the creation of the Black Panther Party. Bobby says it was the play by Marvin X, Flowers for the Trashman, that kicked off the student revolution at Oakland's Merritt College that led directly to the creation of the Black Panther Party. "After Marvin performed his play, the student revolution was on and soon after came the BPP."
Yes, Flowers for the Trashman's language helped liberate the 60s generation, along with the plays of Ed Bullins, so raw the San Francisco police threatened to close down. our Black Arts West Theatre on Fillmore and Turk, 1966. It has No Choice by Bullins was a linguistic monster when the black man addressed the white woman, "Hey white bitch, come here and suck my dick and lick my ass for desert." White police were horrified with the rawness of Ed's speech.
And the Oakland police were equally as horrified when I was invited to perform my play Flowers for the Trashman at Laney College. The OPD threatened to arrest us if we performed. We ignored them. Since then the sycophantic black bourgeoise more often snatches the mike from my hand when my language crosses the red line of the black middle class propriety.
I am so thankful my life doesn't depend on black middle class support since I would likely starve since I do not share their world of make believe, a world in tandem with fake news,
fake blues, fake hair, eyes, lips, breasts, ass, fake minds.
Those of you who consider yourself conscious, may be utterly shocked to discover you have been an utter failure at lifting the masses of your people up from slavery, from the lower information vibration. Those of us who read books, watch fake and not so fake news, need to consider a great majority of your people have no read the plethora of books that you, and they are not aware of news events locally, nationally and globally. For example, you no doubt imagine most blacks heard about the white boy who killed the nine black in that church in South Carolina. Then the killer white boy was treated at MacDonald's with a Big Mac, fries and vanilla milkshake before entering the jail, again, after killing nine North American Africans praying to their Lord. And the blacks steeped in the slave christian religiosity, immediately forgave the white boy for expressing his lunacy rooted in the deep structure of his DNA.
The White denial of Critical Race Theory is their reaction in the classic addiction mode of denial, from which no recovery is possible until they come out of denial, the critical step in the recovery process no matter the addiction. Did we ever expect the oppressor to confess his knee has been on our neck a long time. Did we ever expect him to go home and confess to his children how he expressed his hatred for niggas during his daily round?
In his white lunacy, he attempts to claim Critical Race Theory is a lie and the 1619 Project as well. But white supremacy American history is the truth? You don't want us to know Jefferson was a pedophile? You don't want us to know he kept Sally Hemming in a room without light next to his bedroom while she sired him six children? And this ritual of debauchery continues in the present era on the Lolita Express with such illustrious passengers as Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Prince of England, Obama, et al.
Even though the old Black woman told us to leave dem white folks 'lone cause they crazy, we are determined to mix with them. Yes, despite Elijah Muhammad's lesson. Question: Why doesn't the white man want us to have social equality with him? Answer: Because if we have social equality with him we shall discover how filthy and nasty he is.
North American Africans are so severely addicted to white supremacy type II, i.e., negative attraction, they dance the same dance of denial of the whites who suffer addiction to white supremacy type I. Surely you don't think the master and slave suffer the same malady? Por favor, one is the exploiter, the other is the exploited. One is the recipient of perks at every turn, the other lives marginalized from social and economic justice.
When the Xmas holidays arrive, go downtown and observe the demeanor and persona of blacks in contrast to whites. The whites are singing Xmas Carols, the blacks are without smiles, often suffering mental and physical disabilities, not very joyful about the Prince of Peace.
In 1968, I interviewed James Baldwin at his New York apartment. It was a cold New York December, his apartment was without heat, but we talked. He said,"How can they talk about the Prince of Peace while they bomb the hell out of Vietnam? Your condition proves they don't believe in Christianity. Look at your condition. It is a miracle for a black father to raise a son under these conditions, but we do it over and over. We're the only thing that happened here, nothing else happened here but us!"
Let me end with my favorite Baldwin quote, "White supremacy has led white people to rationalizations so fantastic it reaches the pathological!"
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Marvin X at Laney College, opening for Donald Lacy's Color Struck
photo Alicia Mayor
The Laney College Theatre is Marvin X's old classroom when he taught Theatre at Laney, 1981, and produced his poetic drama In The Name of Love, about which Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice essayist and Black Panther Minister of Information, said, "In the Name of Love returned theatre to the Shakespearean tradition of poetic drama."
Indeed, In the Name of Love was in the genre of Ntozake Shange's poetic drama For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. Beyond the utilization of poetry, Marvin X explored partner violence, polygamy and the patriarchal mentality. One young writer he recently mentored said, "That shit is what my generation needs to see right now. The shit you were dealing with in the 80s, we haven't found a way to deal with it yet!"
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When I published my manual How to Recover from the Addiction of White Supremacy (Type II, Dr. Nathan Hare), people emailed suggesting I should change the title to white lunacy, a more precise definition of the white mental state. And white lunacy is severe, a psychosis or total break with reality. Although I have not changed the title of my manual, I strongly concur with the reader who suggested lunacy was the issue. Alas, elder North American African were known to say, "Leave dem white folks 'lone, dey crazy!" True dat! They so crazy they think white supremacy/lunacy will last or be tolerated by the oppressed forever, that he has the necessary weapons to contain the desire to overthrow the white supremacy masters of the world and their sycophants, especially in black face. How many of these sycophants will need to neutralized for the masses to be free. Imagine, did you hear that Black police officer testify in Wash, DC that he went into total shock during the Turkey Fight on January 6. Can you believe that he didn't know he was a nigga? The nigga pig said he went into total breakdown when he heard the white boys call him the "N" word. I hate that fuckin' term, N word. Motherfucka if you mean nigga say nigga. This is the linguistics of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka said, "If you mean get off the sidewalk, say get off the sidewalk!" The BAM liberated the American language, especially as per North American Africans who were programmed to accept the massa's proper language, although the massa wasn't proper while he put whip lashes on the North American African's ass.
But the 60s was a linguistic revolution in the North American African community. Linguistic freedom was the catalyst of mental and physical freedom. Examine language in the BAM plays of Baraka, Bullins and Marvin X. In Post-BAM, August Wilson continued the tradition. Of course after the Last Poets came the rappers who went stone mad in their linguistic freedom.
Alas, they and their white producers made nigga, bitch, ho and motherfucka billion dollar words. But even before the hip hop rappers and the black nigga films arrived to negate the revolutionary function of North American African linguistics, i.e., they morphed it into the expression of basic language usage in the hood. No matter revolutionary puritans and blacks steeped in narrow-minded Christian and Muslim religiosity objected the language, hip hop rap linguistics exploded across the planet. The world was suddenly full of niggas, bitches, hos and motherfuckas. Global youth culture rapped in the linguistic freedom that began in the Black Arts Movement.
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, does not hesitate to tell audiences about the power of black language in the creation of the Black Panther Party. Bobby says it was the play by Marvin X, Flowers for the Trashman, that kicked off the student revolution at Oakland's Merritt College that led directly to the creation of the Black Panther Party. "After Marvin performed his play, the student revolution was on and soon after came the BPP."
Yes, Flowers for the Trashman's language helped liberate the 60s generation, along with the plays of Ed Bullins, so raw the San Francisco police threatened to close down. our Black Arts West Theatre on Fillmore and Turk, 1966. It has No Choice by Bullins was a linguistic monster when the black man addressed the white woman, "Hey white bitch, come here and suck my dick and lick my ass for desert." White police were horrified with the rawness of Ed's speech.
And the Oakland police were equally as horrified when I was invited to perform my play Flowers for the Trashman at Laney College. The OPD threatened to arrest us if we performed. We ignored them. Since then the sycophantic black bourgeoise more often snatches the mike from my hand when my language crosses the red line of the black middle class propriety.
I am so thankful my life doesn't depend on black middle class support since I would likely starve since I do not share their world of make believe, a world in tandem with fake news,
fake blues, fake hair, eyes, lips, breasts, ass, fake minds.
Those of you who consider yourself conscious, may be utterly shocked to discover you have been an utter failure at lifting the masses of your people up from slavery, from the lower information vibration. Those of us who read books, watch fake and not so fake news, need to consider a great majority of your people have no read the plethora of books that you, and they are not aware of news events locally, nationally and globally. For example, you no doubt imagine most blacks heard about the white boy who killed the nine black in that church in South Carolina. Then the killer white boy was treated at MacDonald's with a Big Mac, fries and vanilla milkshake before entering the jail, again, after killing nine North American Africans praying to their Lord. And the blacks steeped in the slave christian religiosity, immediately forgave the white boy for expressing his lunacy rooted in the deep structure of his DNA.
The White denial of Critical Race Theory is their reaction in the classic addiction mode of denial, from which no recovery is possible until they come out of denial, the critical step in the recovery process no matter the addiction. Did we ever expect the oppressor to confess his knee has been on our neck a long time. Did we ever expect him to go home and confess to his children how he expressed his hatred for niggas during his daily round?
In his white lunacy, he attempts to claim Critical Race Theory is a lie and the 1619 Project as well. But white supremacy American history is the truth? You don't want us to know Jefferson was a pedophile? You don't want us to know he kept Sally Hemming in a room without light next to his bedroom while she sired him six children? And this ritual of debauchery continues in the present era on the Lolita Express with such illustrious passengers as Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Prince of England, Obama, et al.
Even though the old Black woman told us to leave dem white folks 'lone cause they crazy, we are determined to mix with them. Yes, despite Elijah Muhammad's lesson. Question: Why doesn't the white man want us to have social equality with him? Answer: Because if we have social equality with him we shall discover how filthy and nasty he is.
North American Africans are so severely addicted to white supremacy type II, i.e., negative attraction, they dance the same dance of denial of the whites who suffer addiction to white supremacy type I. Surely you don't think the master and slave suffer the same malady? Por favor, one is the exploiter, the other is the exploited. One is the recipient of perks at every turn, the other lives marginalized from social and economic justice.
When the Xmas holidays arrive, go downtown and observe the demeanor and persona of blacks in contrast to whites. The whites are singing Xmas Carols, the blacks are without smiles, often suffering mental and physical disabilities, not very joyful about the Prince of Peace.
In 1968, I interviewed James Baldwin at his New York apartment. It was a cold New York December, his apartment was without heat, but we talked. He said,"How can they talk about the Prince of Peace while they bomb the hell out of Vietnam? Your condition proves they don't believe in Christianity. Look at your condition. It is a miracle for a black father to raise a son under these conditions, but we do it over and over. We're the only thing that happened here, nothing else happened here but us!"
Let me end with my favorite Baldwin quote, "White supremacy has led white people to rationalizations so fantastic it reaches the pathological!"
--Marvin X
9/1/21
