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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 17:51 |
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"This superstition about cosmic justice, about a just universe that mysteriously and patiently gives out rewards and punishments is part of the passivism mentality that has prevented Black Africans from doing what they ought to have done to avenge themselves on their Arab and European tormentors."
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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 17:56 |
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"...those who think that they can change the system from within the system don't understand the power of the system."
Steve Biko
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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 18:01 |
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"If the Negroes will stop making all this noise about social equality, giving white people the idea that we are hankering after their company, and get down to business and build up a strong race, industrially, commercially, educationally and politically, everything social will come afterward."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 18:17 |
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"A doctor does not become angry with a patient because she/he is sick. The doctor gives out treatment to those who will accept it.
But how can a patient look for treatment if she/he doesn't even know that they are sick. That's like a person having cancer and not knowing it. They won't look for the help that they need. It is up to the doctor to protect him/herself from becoming infected by the disease and doing all that he/she can to find a remedy and cure for the disease so that those who become aware of their illness will have someone who they can go to for help and treatment.
Every educator is a student and every healer is or was once a patient; so there is where true overstanding begins."
Kwadwo Agyemang
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Posted: Thursday May 3rd, 2007 11:25 |
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"What C.L.R. James and W.E.B. DuBois did in their books The Black Jacobins (1938) and Black Reconstruction (1935), was to place squarely before us historical knowledge about two major events that reorder the narrative structures of Western radical history. Their projects created seismic shifts in twentieth-century radical historiography. One major development in twentieth-century historiography is the ways in which social theory became and integral part of historical understanding…
Both James and DuBois were rewriting history from a stance in which experiences were not captures or, if they were, they had been captured from a standpoint that the black subject was a savage or, in the case of the Reconstruction, that black male political equality led to the most corrupt and morally bankrupt state regimes in American history."
Anthony Bogues
Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals
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Posted: Thursday May 3rd, 2007 16:21 |
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"When we, as African people, make the decision to seek sovereignty, we are also making a decision to build institutions that lessen the grip of European cultural and political authority over the way that we live and conduct our affairs. In this context, institution building is inseparable from nation building. Building independent African-centered educational institutions is like committing arson in a fire station.
Any commitment to nation building and sovereignty among African people is a potential threat to the European quest for world domination. Thus, we should expect that efforts to build institutions that foster sovereignty and nation building, including our families and schools, will be undermined through deceptiveness, deviousness and insidiousness."
Mwalimu J. Shujaa
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 09:32 |
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"Even as I point this out, you may say, “What does this all have to do with the Black man in America? And what does it have to do with the Black and white relations here in Rochester?
You have to understand it. Until 1959, the image of the African continent was created by the enemies of Africa. Africa was a land dominated by outside powers. A land dominated by Europeans. And as these Europeans dominated the continent of Africa, it was they who created the image of Africa that was projected abroad. And they projected Africa and the people of Africa in a negative image, a hateful image.
They made us think that Africa was a land of jungles, a land of animals, a land of cannibals and savages. It was a hateful image.
And because they were so successful in projecting this negative image of Africa, those of us here in the West of African ancestry, the Afro-American, we looked upon Africa as a hateful place. We looked upon the African as the hateful person. And if you referred to us as an African it was like putting us as a servant, or playing house, or talking about us in the way we didn’t want to be talked.
Why? Because those who oppress know that you can’t make a person hate the root without making them hate the tree. You can’t hate your own and not end up hating yourself. And since we all originated in Africa, you can’t make us hate Africa without making us hate ourselves. And they did this very skillfully.
And what was the result? They ended up with 22 million Black people here in America who hated everything about us that was African.
We hated the African characteristics.
We hated our hair…
We hated our nose, the shape of our nose, and the shape of our lips, the color of our skin.
Yes we did. And it was you who taught us to hate ourselves simply by shrewdly maneuvering us into hating the land of our forefathers and the people on that continent.
As long as we hated those people, we hated ourselves. As long as we hated what we thought they looked like, we hated what we actually looked like. And you call me a hate teacher. Why, you taught us to hate ourselves. You taught the world to hate a whole race of people and have the audacity now to blame us for hating you simply because we don’t like the rope that you put around our necks."
Malcolm X
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 09:37 |
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"The Black Man in America has been colonized mentally, his mind has been destroyed.
And today, even though he goes to college, he comes out and still doesn’t even know he is a Black Man"
Malcolm X
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 10:47 |
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"For the pursuit of happiness is surely the chief of human pursuits. Even if one pursues pleasure to its limit, this is surely a vain attempt to sustain fleeting and delusive moments of happiness. In addition to this most of us know from experiene that an obsession with pleasure is rarely conducive to happiness. There is a point beyond which pleasure ceases to be. Happiness on the other hand is a more durable state of mind. We begin to see that happiness and pleasure are quite different things.
Whereas pleasure results from an interaction with some definite object; happiness is a state of well-being not derived from any particular object in the world, but is experienced as a result of a total overview of one's life and its possibilities. Whereas pleasure is related to the love of worldly things, happiness can only stem from a love of life as a whole."
Chukwunyere Kamalu
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 11:28 |
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"Self-hatred results from learning to be ashamed of and/or hating one's own story, one's own traditions, one's own people, one's own self. We cannot separate our self-esteem from our people because we cannot avoid the fact that we are the culmination of our ancestors (just as eu-rope-an children today are the culmination of their ancestors). Without those before us, we would not be. We are because they were. Therefore, we are them. We respectfully suffer their pain (so we will come to know it is ours) and are righteously sworn to obtain justice in their name.
Whether conscious or not, treason against one's ancestors is the worst possible sin an individual can commit against self. And that is exactly what people who choose to ignore or dismiss the significance of the past on the present do."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 11:50 |
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"We could not be Afrikans and slaves at the same time; we could not hold onto our Afrikan identity, our Afrikan selves, knowledge of our Afrikan culture, and be enslaved -- the subordinates of another people. It is only when that knowledge is removed, erased, degraded, stolen, taken and distorted that we lose our identity. It is then that an identity is placed upon us by another people and by external forces.
Therefore, a lack of self-knowledge is a lack of self-awareness. A lack of self-awareness is an insensitivity to the self. But an insensitivity in the self is also an insensitivity to reality and to the outside world. Without the sensitivity of the outside world and the self, we are left to blindly stumble from one point to another."
Amos N. Wilson
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Posted: Saturday May 5th, 2007 19:14 |
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"Love yourselves better than anyone else. All beauty is in you and not outside of you, for God made you beautiful. Confine your affection, therefore, to your own race and God will bless you and men will honour you."
Marcus Garvey
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Posted: Tuesday May 8th, 2007 10:20 |
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“In a racially oppressive society, Education for Liberation is a subversive activity.�
PAMOJA TUTASHINDE
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Posted: Tuesday May 8th, 2007 11:12 |
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"For a people to be free, they have to produce one sacrificial generation. That generation must be the role model for other generations to come."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Tuesday May 8th, 2007 20:07 |
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"A crucial distinction thus exists between the African view of man and the view of man found in Western thought: in the African view it is the community which defines the person as a person, not some isolated static quality of rationality, will or memory."
I.A Menkiti
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 10:12 |
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"This generations' battle-cry is no different from that of previous generations. The aim and the spirit are the same. We walk the way of a new level of freedom. We seek to no longer be victimized by others as to our place in the center of world history.
We do this not because of arrogance but because it is necessary to place Africa at the center of our existential reality, else we will remain detached, isolated, and spiritually lonely people in societies which constantly bombard us with anti-Africa rhetoric and symbols, sometimes from Africans themselves who have been trained by the enemies of Africa."
Molefi K. Asante
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 17:38 |
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"Afrikan consciousness will realize its full power, second to none, when it dedicated itself exclusively to the advancement and satisfaction of Afrikan interests BEFORE ALL OTHERS ; when it bases its organization on a realistic and truthful knowledge of Afrikan history and culture, a truthful knowledge of the history, culture, intentionalities, and powers of the enemies or would-be-enemies of Afrikan peoples; when it acquires a solid and courageous knowledge of reality, and self; when it becomes determined to achieve self-control, high self-esteem; when it achieves self-acceptance, and develops its ability to form more affirmative, affectionate, cooperative intragroup relations; when it produces to and for its own satisfaction; when it organizes itself to overcome and overthrow [w]hite supremacy and successfully defend Afrikan peoples against the deprecations of other ethnic groups . . .
The royal road to Afrikan Power, to Black Power, to a powerful Black Consciousness runs through the reclamation by Afrikan peoples of their Afrikan identity and their irresistible will to be the determiners of their own ultimate destiny. "
Amos Wilson
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 17:39 |
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"Black tells you what you look like, but it doesn't tell you who you are or what you should do . . ."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 17:48 |
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"Due to the absence of critique, resignation does not facilitate re-Afrikanization; it does not contribute to the development of one’s knowledge of African cultural history nor does it help to clarify the African world view perspective.
For Africans living in hostile cultural environments, approaching information with resignation actually ASSISTS the integration of knowledge that conveys white supremacy ideology and enhances the distortion of the African world view perspective."
Mwalimu Shujaa
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 20:10 |
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"Regardless of what Black people ultimately decide about the questions of separation, integration, segregation, revolution, or reform, it is vitally important that we develop, out of the authentic experience of Black people in this country, an accurate workable theory of Black psychology. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to understand the lifestyles of Black people using traditional theories developed by White psychologists to explain White people.
Moreover, when these traditional theories are applied to the lives of Black folks many incorrect, weakness-dominated, and inferiority-oriented conclusions come about. "
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 20:48 |
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"....the major contributing factor to the success of European nationalism has been its projection as disinterested internationalism"
Marimba Ani
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Posted: Friday May 11th, 2007 12:26 |
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"Although race may be skin deep, it is the colour of the skin that occasions the first response when a Black man is stopped by the police or appears at emergency psychiatric services. Five hundred years of history is distilled in a few seconds. The colonial encounter writ large. With alarming regularity, institutions in Britain admit to their inherent racism, the police, the fire services, academia, now even organ donation in medicine (Barker, 1999).
Colour of skin was what got Stephen Lawrence killed, colour of skin is what makes Black people more likely to be arrested when stopped by the police, more likely to be convicted when charged and more likely to be given custodial sentences when convicted. From this perspective, race can never be an illusion. "
POST-COLONIALISM & MENTAL HEALTH
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Frederick W. Hickling, Medical Director
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Posted: Friday May 11th, 2007 13:12 |
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Cedella Marley Booker
“My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and breed her. He’s a English guy…I t’ink. Cos me see him one time yunno.
My mother? My Mother African."
Bob Marley
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Posted: Monday May 14th, 2007 13:54 |
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"To grasp the real state of education of African people everywhere, including in America, we must examine the intersection of culture and power. A global system of power distribution has dictated and continues to dictate the nature of the education and socialization processes. Slavery, colonization, apartheid/segregation and the rationalizing ideology of white supremacy are centuries old challenges, really aspects of a global hegemonic system.
That system interrupted and largely destroyed the flow of thousand of years of powerful and independent African education/socialization excellence, about which most of us are totally uniformed."
Asa G. Hilliard III
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Posted: Tuesday May 15th, 2007 16:46 |
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"They have created a concept called the 'cultural other' that has influenced their vision of themselves and other people in their contact with Africans, Asians, and people of the Pacific Islands. They have declared most things primitive that they could not understand. They have laughed at the gods of other people. This cruelty was compounded when, through propaganda and the misuse of the Bible, they taught other people to laugh at their chosen gods and adopt the god of their conqueror."
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