Between the Lines; Black Unity; Is There Such a Thing, and If so, How Do We Achieve It Starting in 2006?
Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. › August 06, 2009
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The shifting politics are centered egalitarian pursuits of equality that, in essence, force Blacks to accept race-neutrality in order to achieve some semblance of equality, by assimilating America's cultural beliefs, partaking in "American dream" material benefits," namely work (job), wealth (land/home) and culturalization (Euro-scholarship). The wealth and education divide among African Americans is greater than it's ever been-since slavery. Blacks who are doing well, are doing real well, and Blacks that are not have become a part of that self-fulfilling prophesy called "the permanent underclass." Much of the "Black on Black" conflict that we see in Black communities nationwide is class conflict, the have-nots attacking the haves, or the wanna haves (those who have the desire and ambition to leave their deprivation behind). This creates frustration on both sides, not exactly condusive to unity.
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Between the Lines; Black Unity; Is There Such a Thing, and If so, How Do We Achieve It Starting in 2006?
The African American Diaspora went through a lot in 2005. Legends of our 20th Century legacy and culture, like Rosa Parks, Ossie Davis, John Johnson and Richard Pryor, came and went. Tests of our resolve like the poverty politics of Hurricane Katrina, the beating of Minister Tony Muhammad, the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams and the "cal...
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