Parable of Bones

[Marvin X]

Friday, August 13, 2010

Parable of Bones

Parable of Bones


Dr.Nathan Hare once said North American Africans have been going to Egyptor Kemit for years digging but haven't found a bone of their ancestors.Such activity is a form of escapism or as Dr. Hare calls it,"otherworldism," essentially an escape from the trauma and grief of lifein America, a refusal to dig up and collect the dry bones in the hoodsof America where they languish in poverty, ignorance and disease.

Justas important is the need to excavate throughout America for theremains of all those blacks who have disappeared as a result of racistviolence inspired and often directed by State agencies, including thepolice, mayors, governors and the justice department, especially duringthe tenure of J. Edgar Hoover with the Cointelpro operation to denyfreedom to North American Africans.

We need to investigate theprison graveyards with forensic scientists to examine the cause of deathof prisoners who are often tortured and murdered by prison officials,yet have escaped public notice because families are often too ignorantor traumatized by their own daily round to be concerned with the mentaland physical condition of their loved ones.

This should be one ofthe primary mission of Black Studies, Africana Studies, DiasporaStudies, Pan African Studies. To hell with what happened in Egypt tenthousand years ago! North American African won't match the splendor ofKing Tut in a million years. How shall we do it, not by going aroundwith gold grills looking like alligators, pants down to our kneessagging, walking like ducks and penguins.

The bones in Egypt orKemit speak for themselves and do so quite eloquently, yet dry bones inthe hoods of America are silenced, buried in the sands of time.
--Marvin X
8/13/10