On what it takes:
“What will it take to pull our people out of poverty? What will get us to contemplate a life with brighter dreams? What will inspire us to pursue the future as if it mattered? How will we learn to respect ourselves and help each other? What will it take for us to become entrepreneurs and to run businesses that will serve the community, not destroy it? We ask these questions only because we think there are answers, real ones, attainable ones.”
On criticism:
“Certain people tell us that we are picking on the poor. Many of those who accuse us are scholars and intellectuals, upset that we are not blaming everything on white people as they do. Well, only blaming the system keeps certain black people in the limelight but it also keeps the black poor wallowing in victimhood.”
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Amen Cos. Maybe I'm isolated, but I just don't hear too many black people blaming white folks for everything anymore, at least not explicitly. Any negro talking about "the man is holding me back" needs to sit his ass own DOWN!
This is a major turning point in contemporary African American thought.
Big J,
Isn't that exactly what the Mike Fisher camp is doing? After you sift through the verbage ... isn't that what "Global System of White Supremacy" is all about?
Even your boy Abu Sahara seems to buy into it after taking a few academic detours.
A little Henry Makow on this topic -
If I wanted to brainwash and manipulate a segment of the population, I would convince them they were victims. The economic elites have been controlling us for centuries this way.
Human beings are predisposed to victim status. It's like saying, you deserve better. Who can argue? Usually it's easy to support this proposition, easy to blame someone for our problems. Often grievances are legitimate but they are just pretexts for the elite to drive a wedge into society.
There is another perk. For some reason which I can't fathom, "victims" are conferred a higher moral status. They become Saintly, faultless and immune to criticism.
Victim hood transforms people. They become motivated, self-righteous and regimented. A complex world is reduced to black and white: Good against Evil, us against them. Morally and intellectually, they become zombies.
They no longer can think in terms of humanity as a whole. They don't care about anyone but their own "oppressed" group. They don't care if society is destroyed as long as they get their way.
Sound like children? Victim hood is a form of arrested development. Caring about other peoples' needs is the basis of morality. It is synonymous with personal and social development.
Victims don't care about objective truth either. They feel their suffering gives them the right to manipulate the truth or even deny that it exists.
Oh, yeah. Fish and Abu do it all the time, and I see them stretching and struggling to hold onto that ethos.
Mmm Mmm. No. I just don’t see it that way.
Mike Fisher only points out what is already there and can be seen and experienced by those identified as “black”.
I certainly will not speak for him but I don’t feel that he epitomizes himself as a victim nor does he blame all societal ills on the “system of white supremacy”.
I believe there is a difference between simply acknowledging or becoming aware of the obstacles presented to us as black people and then organizing and overcoming them versus sitting back and saying, “See, we can’t do nuttin cuz the white man ______”
His strategy is to avoid becoming the prey.
Good post Kimberly,
The problem with those that insist on identifying the 'Omnipotent Power' as simply ... "white", is that they pour concrete on a myth that ultimately empowers "whites" while permanently dooming nonwhites to subservience.
Presuming this "Global System of White Supremacy" does exist ... then what?
Is it possible to ever defeat a "Global System of White Supremacy"?
Where would one start?
I teach my kids that they live in a world where imagination, understanding, health and spirit are supreme.
You just have to avoid the traps set by the tricksters.
DV:I teach my kids that they live in a world where imagination, understanding, health and spirit are supreme.
that's beautiful.
DV
I teach my kids that they live in a world where imagination, understanding, health and spirit are supreme.
That's fine. But if your not teaching them to not travel the backroads of Alabama with a white girl at night with no regard for racist white cops then you are not preparing them with total possible outcomes... full disclosure. Teaching involves the good and the bad. Utopia and reality.
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