DISQUS

leshell · 1 year ago

i like what he teach i would like to join the nation

Soraya · 1 year ago

Is is loca un cabeza, crazy in the head. The black community is not monolithic. Get real, what important to me may not be important to someone else.

The Professor · 1 year ago

Basically, what we see here are the ideas of the past vs. the ideas of the present. The old-school 60s Black nationalists were sold on the idea/myth of the monoliithic Black community based on a somewhat confused idea that "everyone else was united except us" (Black people), which anyone who studies would events would know is far from true. Unfortuantely, despite their talk of "unity" and "Black United Fronts," etc., most of this crowd are quick to dismiss Blacks who disagree with them as "enemies of the people."

For the most part, most of the oldschool 60s nationalists, in spite of their admittedly noble efforts to get rid of the low self-esteem that plagues much of Black America, have had little to offer but an outlet for bitter people with their reationary rhetoric.

The Professor · 1 year ago

Corrections to the above (in my haste)-

"Anyone who studies "world events would know..."

"with their reactionary rhetoric."

In either case, Obama is wise to, as Dr. King did, motivate people with more optimistic and inclusive dialogue. It is a little known fact that Dr. King warned of the dangers of Reactionary Black nationalism in his Letter form a Birmingham Jail and in the wake of the confusion that followed his assassination, few have heeded his warning. OBama himself spoke on this subject in "Dreams from My Father." Fortunately, Black America is appearing to be hopeful and optimistic again and turning away form the negative rhetoric of the recent past.