The Ways of Negative Build and Destroy White Power: Say: “O God! Lord of Power (and Rule), thou givest power to whom thou pleases, and thou strippest off power from whom thou pleases: Thou endues with honor whom thou pleases, and thou bringest low whom thou pleases: In thy hands is all good. Verily, over all things thou hast power (Surah 3:26). The failure of Black Americans to gain access to and fill significant numbers of positions of power and influence in America is not the result of large number of Black individuals who lack initiative, drive, etc., but is ultimately the result of the nature of the power relations which inhere between White and Black Americans. White Americans, in hypocritically projecting the American political-economical system and opportunity structure as egalitarian, i.e., as “color blind” and race neutral, justify their monopoly of positions of influence and power in terms of their superior individual characteristics, training, experiences, and much else. In other words, according to dominant Whites there is nothing wrong with or racially discriminatory about the White dominated social system, only something wrong with individuals; the largest percentage of those who happen to have something wrong with them just “happen to be Black.” Many Black Americans give consent to this line of reasoning. (1) If Blacks are to empower themselves, they must question White-originated and self-serving rules and ideological justifications for establishing and maintaining White domination as a legitimate expression of power consented to by Blacks themselves. (1) 1. Amos Wilson, Blue Print for Black Power, p.20-21 Q. Did the Devil God settle on the best part of the planet?
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