Dr. Amos N. Wilson*(1941 – 1995) was a social caseworker, psychological counselor, supervising probation officer and training administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. He was also an assistant professor of psychology at the City University of New York. In his book “Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamic of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination,” Wilson, discredited the pervasive myth that blacks are inherently criminal. Not only did he chronicle the vast history of violence that was pervasive in American culture, but he also *demonstrated how black-on-black violence and black male criminality in the United States was a politically*and economically*engineered process designed to maintain the subservience and relative powerlessness of black people and black communities worldwide. However, Wilson contended that bringing an end to black-on-black violence and criminality is the sole responsibility of all black people. In his book he lays out practical and theoretical ways of eradicating it.
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