Black People : Is Black Nationalism about rhetoric or Action????

i would say both....to be honest most of us are just trying to get by from day to day. The act of even "thinking" like a nation is something that doesn't cross our minds collectively and to a degree that is understandable. For this simple fact I guess we can say it is rhetoric nowadays, but with that being said I have a hard time totally giving up on the idea of thinking like a nation........
 
i would say both.
Therefore what actions are needed to get the rhetoric to an understandable level to those of us, in our community who still do not have the knowledge of self,
and to move them and inspire them to action in regards to Doing For Self?
 
Therefore what actions are needed to get the rhetoric to an understandable level to those of us, in our community who still do not have the knowledge of self,
and to move them and inspire them to action in regards to Doing For Self?


I would say by being an example. For instance I am a college student. Now I am apart of a Pan African studies program, but in actuality someone could look at me and claim that my participation in an educational institution is really not working towards the idea of nation hood on the most basic level. I believe John Henrik Clark made a comment on those of us who receive higher education, but still don't know how to do anything for self. Often times I look at my father and am somewhat jealous at some of the things that he is able to do for himself. His childhood circumstances are the reason he is able to do some of the most basic things for himself....like growing his own food. Does the modern society we grow up in even gear us towards thinking about such basic things? I would say no. With that being said there are pushes being made by urban planners to support such things as urban agriculture


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_farming


Recently there were some kids from California that were able to fund their education, because of the money they made from the food they produced

http://www.collagefoundation.org/archive/archive-peoplesgrocery.html

just something as simple as this has changed: these individuals mind state from being proactive instead of reactive, their diets, their economic vision .....these are "real" things that are happening, but we rarely hear about them or see them and therefore are concentrated in achieving individual achievement in this rat race.....acts like this are what I call "real" power and supporting the idea of "real" nation hood.
 
I would say by being an example. For instance I am a college student. Now I am apart of a Pan African studies program, but in actuality someone could look at me and claim that my participation in an educational institution is really not working towards the idea of nation hood on the most basic level. I believe John Henrik Clark made a comment on those of us who receive higher education, but still don't know how to do anything for self. Often times I look at my father and am somewhat jealous at some of the things that he is able to do for himself. His childhood circumstances are the reason he is able to do some of the most basic things for himself....like growing his own food. Does the modern society we grow up in even gear us towards thinking about such basic things? I would say no. With that being said there are pushes being made by urban planners to support such things as urban agriculture


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_farming


Recently there were some kids from California that were able to fund their education, because of the money they made from the food they produced

http://www.collagefoundation.org/archive/archive-peoplesgrocery.html

just something as simple as this has changed: these individuals mind state from being proactive instead of reactive, their diets, their economic vision .....these are "real" things that are happening, but we rarely hear about them or see them and therefore are concentrated in achieving individual achievement in this rat race.....acts like this are what I call "real" power and supporting the idea of "real" nation hood.
That realy did not answer the question because those who need to see you taking those courses and studying are not on campus but in the hood surviving the best or worse way they know how.
Life itself is a University and you were born from a professor, I would suggest to spend some more timw with him, and asking questions like what had promoted his self sufficency, and green thumb, and spirtualy and as a spiritual exercise, get into he soil and those seeds and seedlings as the mother erth becomes your second teacher, aNand with an open heart and mind you will be filled with a spirit of a true alchemy.
George Washington Carver's discoveries were based on this were he actualy stated that he could commune with the inner spirit and life force of plants to gain an inner wisdom regading their use.

The question I posed is not an easy one, but look at your community, where you live, look at those who will not make it when the economy crashes, and from your Pan African heart, your intuition will guide you to an answer, and I pose it cause I realy don't have all the answers myself, yet i know methods that have worked and methods that have failed but as brother Chuck mentioned, we need fresh ideas, and creativity from a new generation.
Not to put a heavy burden on you but the Black Power movement was realy started in the universities, after the death of Malcolm and those inspired by him,
by H Rap Brown, Kwame Toure, Angela Davis, Huey P Newton, and Bobby Seale
 

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