Marvin X, Director, Adama Mosley, Secretary, Ken Johnson, Videographer/photographer, editor, driver. Ken has made his limo available to the BVA for special events. Ken is a retired SF Muni bus driver but has been the videographer for Marvin X over 30 years. They are currently working on a documentary The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience. We are also doing a video documentary of Black street vendors at Lake Merritt and throughout Oakland.
"When James Copes told me the urgent need to promote the Black vendor narrative to counter and negate the white supremacist Lake Merritt narrative, it was clear to me that a Black Vendor Magazine is urgently needed to tell our story and history of being denied a presence at Lake Merritt, as occurred when I grew up in West Oakland, 7th and Campbell.
We are supposed to accept the denial of a presence at Lake Merritt in 2021. WTF, the current residents and business persons adjacent the lake are of the same white racist personality as those who kept us from the lake in the 50s, though the current version of Oakland KKK frame their narrative in pseudo liberal linguistics while the truth is that after WWII, German Nazis arrived in Oakland, e.g. Kaiser, Bechtel, et al. Google the history of Nazis in Oakland and the political families who emerged from them. You shall be utterly shocked at the fascist history of Oakland.
Back to Lake Merritt
Oh, the Blacks are destroying the green, the water polluted with black garbage, their music too loud for white sensibility and civility, we can't take the smell of weed, bar-b-que and the drunken behavior of the Blacks from purchasing those distilled spirits of alcohol merchants. Thank God somebody snitched the other day that the black alcohol vendors were armed. What if they had gotten into another shootout as they did on their newfound holiday called Juneteenth! Can you believe the blacks didn't know they were freed from slavery until nearly two years later. What happened to their grapevine? Why didn't they beat their fuckin drums to let them know Lincoln freed their black asses. And they actually thought they were going to get 40 acres and a Gov. mule? WTF. Forty acres in a lot of land. Thank God they killed Lincoln an stopped that 40 acre shit.
But whenever white folks party at the lake, they party in full blown white supremacy culture, no matter left or right. Can you believe the lake residents have the same mentality as the pig who denied George Floyd the right to breathe as he begged and called his Mama. Do the Lake Merritt whites really want the black vendors out of sight forever and ever, no matter where they go, Pittsburg, Antioch, Stockton, Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, Hanford, Bakersfield, anywhere but Lakeshore. What right do the Blacks have to be at the lake, we pay taxes and vote with corrupt politicians to have the lake for us only. Why can't the blacks understand this. Why do they persist? WTF.
Yeah, they the same in West Oakland: white gentrifiers called police saying there was too much noise coming from the rehearsal of the black church choir. WTF. Church been there 50 years, whites got there yesterday, close to West Oakland BART so they can get to the financial district in San Francisco to rob and steal the world don't you know? And they come home from global pyramid schemes demanding the Blacks only sing Silent Night, so they can go to bed and dream of more wretched schemes like how to unite with the Chinese and spread germ warfare in the breeze. It's called the Big Payback, James Brown said. My brother told me his task in Vietnam was to paint poison on the trees. And you think what goes around don't come around? Better learn to speak Chinese.
You white haters of Blacks at the lake, you heartless, soulless capitalist swine, bloodsuckers of the poor, don't give a damn about the green or garbage in the lake. If you cared for Mother Nature, why is the earth on fire? If you cared about the rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, why is there an island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean three times the size of Texas? If you cared about the universe and multiverse, why is outta space filled with junk flying and floating everywhere? You should be banned from planet earth and outta space too because your record of destruction is clear: you fuck up everywhere. See Dr. E. Franklin Frazier’s little known classic Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World. Imagine as we experience the Covid 19 Pandemic, Frazier told us long ago the diseases of the white man were more lethal than his guns upon the native populations. Covid 19 is the Eugenicists dream, down from Margaret Sanger, Hitler, Rockefeller, Bill Gates mama and daddy who fused Eugenics and technology (IBM that morphed into Microsoft), emerging in the present era with Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci and the Hunan lab receiving Covid 19 virology, claiming it came from a bat, Globalist/Chinese People’s Revolutionary Army mythology. If you believe Covid 19 came from a bat, you also believe the two million Uyghur Muslims are happy in concentration camps as the Jews were under Hitler’s Nazism and Africans kidnapped into the American slave system, where 2.5 million languish today as Constitutional slaves under the 13th Amendment allowing involuntary servitude for crimes, the convenient way America reinstituted its full blown addiction to free labor as the backbone of capitalism.
And the Black presence at Lake Merritt is your despair? Go somewhere and comb your hair. Love your woman, have a baby, stop wearing women's clothes like you crazy. Bring the Taliban to Oakland, they'll make you stand up like a man. After all you sins against Blacks, you still continue your attacks, only because you can, because you pay politicians and police to carry out your despicable, diabolical plans under the pseudo guise of clean green, Holy Mother Earth, whom you curse. Then have the nerve to chant Green while you continue the theft and robbery of aboriginal lands and peoples in Africa, Asia and Latin America of their precious metals to further your dastardly satanic schemes. I say take your dog, yes, your best friend, this will insure your immediate end. For you and dog are one, made for each other, you are father, dog is son. Your woman is nowhere in this equation, you know the saying: woman and dog missing, reward for dog! Take your dog, you be praying Oh holy god on North winds, sky, return my dog so we can fly over heavens hills again, I miss my dog, without my dog I cannot win. Women are fine and we love them too, but without dog we men are not true. For we are dogs too.
With its grant from the Silicon Valley Foundation, Marvin X and the BVA will give support to the Oakland Black Vendors Association, under the direction of James Copes. "Since I am a recluse (solitude is critical to my creative personality), I have no problem supporting Mr. Copes who is a people's person. He is more diplomatic than I, so let me plan and structure the vendors into a solid economic institution, maybe on the model of the Pullman Porters Union. We are aware of how the 30,000 mostly Latinx street vendors united to win passage of SB946, the State Law on Street Vending. We North American African street vendors can unite to do for self, to advocate for equity and social justice.
BVA Director Marvin X and Secretary Adama working in their mobile office
photo Ken Johnson
I know James and I are in accord on such matters, including providing basic educational and business skills for entrepreneurs, especially brothers and sisters in the hood who are marginalized from achieving economic parity in the marketplace. Far too often we are not allowed employment as stop sign holders at the plethora of development sites in Oakland and across America for that matter." The Black Street Vendors Association can teach economic independence for brothers and sisters who may never occupy retail shop space. Although it is the vision of Mr. Copes, many vendors and myself that with unity we can acquire retail space as we advance. Again, look at the Latinx as a model, e.g., they start with a cart, then taco truck, then a market and restaurant. Elijah Muhammad said see what others do and emulate them whether they are white, brown or yellow. Don't sit around hating and being jealous of them, do what they do and come up as they do.
Don't they imitate you in all that you do, didn't they learn rap from you, jazz from you, blues, swagger from you, how to dress from you? Flip the script and learn from them to come up, yes, to the Upper Room of your Father's and Mother's house!" Sell Black, Buy Black, Die Black!
Marvin X says, "Black Vendors, are you ready to ride into the sunrise of do 4 self economics? Elijah Muhammad told you the day shall come when you shall not be wanted by your master, you shall be forced to do 4 self. That day has arrived. Do 4 self or die, or shall you cry to some god up in the sky? Did Bezos see god on his rocket ride? I have only one message for you: You are in God and God is in you. I'm through! Do 4 self or dodo. When you ready to do 4 self, even the white man will help you. This is true. Better ax somebody as they in the Big H, Houston, TX."
photo Ken Johnson