So the experience of slavery is not supposed to be operating in the mentality of black folks and youll hear a lot of our youngsters say that as well. Why do you talk about slavery? That was back there. Or youll hear whites offer, Well, we dont have anything to do with that any more. Its an amazing situation because you have to remind them: You are still living off the interest of the wealth that your forefathers earned from slavery. You are still enjoying the accumulated wealth that began with the enslavement of our people. If youre going to enjoy the wealth that was generated by evil, then you must take the curse that comes along with it. Therefore, even though you personally had nothing to do with it, because you have received stolen goods you must pay the price as well. And because you fight and struggle to protect those stolen goods and you defend them and organize your society and our relationship to white people to maintain them and to continue to enhance them, then you must pay the price. Thats why you live in terror; thats why you are stabbed in these streets; thats why youre going to suffer, no matter how good you are, no matter how liberal you are. Amos N. Wilson Afrikan-Centered Consciousness versus The New World Order
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:57:44 +0000
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