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Brother Wilson was on point with his book Black Power. But I think that what he wants for our people is unrealistic, given our historical experience under oppression, an experience that has not been forced upon any other race, in the history of mankind. White folks screwed us up. We are not who we used to be before being kidnapped and shipped to this continent. Asians and others did not undergo what we experienced as an oppressed group. They came mentally untouched, so to speak. Under our enslavement, whatever sense of collective unity and thrift and capacity for pooling funds and anything else, all was denied and discouraged to the nth degree. We all know what happened to us. Now we are so integrated into the oppressors worldview (the importance of individual happiness, for example), there honestly isn't any hope for us. And the civil Rights Industrial Complex almost singlehandedly guaranteed we follow behind the oppressor in order to get along with them, like there is some Cosmic Law that says one must love his oppressor. Negroes please! We are finished. It seems that for too many of us, the impact of mental enslavement is permanent. This is not to suggest that we stop struggling. We have to face the reality, however, that we will not become like the Asians or Middle Easterners economically nor socially. If there is any hope, then that would be for consciousness-raising organizations to do what Dr. Cress-Welsing suggested for another context, and that is to engage in a massive advertising campaign (visual, theatrical, and personal, etc) that problematizes individualism and materialism and any other -ism that goes against the traditional value systems of our Ancestors. In other words, we have to shame each other, to the point that the violator rethinks his/her behavior, and then seeks to self-correct or risk being denied access to the group, and all that that means. For example, to someone who banks at a white-owned bank, you say to her directly, "Wassup with that? Why you enriching they banks, when its hard for us to get a business loan from them?" Or something to that effect. As Dr. Cress-Welsing suggested, we get the people into a theatre and show them visual productions (movies, plays, lectures, readings, etc) that denigrate individualism, for example, and follow this with activities that promote collectivism among our people. We hang colorful and provocative and informational posters all over the hood that shame folks for thinking and behaving against the social, economic, and collective well-being of our people. In other words, the people have to be reminded that they is fukkn up, that enough is enough. This method of struggle will not be easy, and will take decades to succeed, as we all, even myself, are dealing with issues resulting from being mentally oppressed since exiting my mother's womb. That shit is not easy to get over. But imagine what will become of our people once we do.
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Brother Wilson was on point with his book Black Power. But I think that what he wants for our people is unrealistic, given our historical experience under oppression, an experience that has not been forced upon any other race, in the history of mankind. White folks screwed us up. We are not who we used to be before being kidnapped and shipped to this continent. Asians and others did not undergo what we experienced as an oppressed group. They came mentally untouched, so to speak. Under our enslavement, whatever sense of collective unity and thrift and capacity for pooling funds and anything else, all was denied and discouraged to the nth degree. We all know what happened to us. Now we are so integrated into the oppressors worldview (the importance of individual happiness, for example), there honestly isn't any hope for us. And the civil Rights Industrial Complex almost singlehandedly guaranteed we follow behind the oppressor in order to get along with them, like there is some Cosmic Law that says one must love his oppressor. Negroes please! We are finished. It seems that for too many of us, the impact of mental enslavement is permanent. This is not to suggest that we stop struggling. We have to face the reality, however, that we will not become like the Asians or Middle Easterners economically nor socially. If there is any hope, then that would be for consciousness-raising organizations to do what Dr. Cress-Welsing suggested for another context, and that is to engage in a massive advertising campaign (visual, theatrical, and personal, etc) that problematizes individualism and materialism and any other -ism that goes against the traditional value systems of our Ancestors. In other words, we have to shame each other, to the point that the violator rethinks his/her behavior, and then seeks to self-correct or risk being denied access to the group, and all that that means. For example, to someone who banks at a white-owned bank, you say to her directly, "Wassup with that? Why you enriching they banks, when its hard for us to get a business loan from them?" Or something to that effect. As Dr. Cress-Welsing suggested, we get the people into a theatre and show them visual productions (movies, plays, lectures, readings, etc) that denigrate individualism, for example, and follow this with activities that promote collectivism among our people. We hang colorful and provocative and informational posters all over the hood that shame folks for thinking and behaving against the social, economic, and collective well-being of our people. In other words, the people have to be reminded that they is fukkn up, that enough is enough. This method of struggle will not be easy, and will take decades to succeed, as we all, even myself, are dealing with issues resulting from being mentally oppressed since exiting my mother's womb. That shit is not easy to get over. But imagine what will become of our people once we do.