learn about psychology, and understand that only 2 percent of any race is self motivated or actualized,The very last line of that post is the strongest (not to say the rest is not) It's insanity to not know that what you're doing is negative and self destructive. I know WHY there are gangs and criminals, why is not part of the solution, it is an excuse for not changing. I used to be a graffiti artist in my younger days and I was well aware of what I was doing. Yes I am an artist and was then but I did it for the rush which is irrelevant, I DID it knowing it was against the law. When I gave it up I decided to keep my art on canvas and not on the street but it's all a choice. Young brothers these days have PLENTY of positive examples but they CHOOSE otherwise. We have to get out of the follower mentality, mimicking the negatives of others and mocking the positives. We need our fathers back in the household and we need FAMILIES again. None of this "I can raise my children on my own" from sisters and absentee father nonsense anymore. Obama kills all excuses any black person give for not achieving these days and that includes myself. I'm not all that I want to be but I know it's no one elses fault but my own and I'm working now toward getting there. We all have to start somewhere and adult life is much smoother when we start in our youth.
if you are self actualized and you think everyone else is,
then follow your mode of thought by all means and see were that takes the young men we are talking about here in the next 20 years.
If your line of reasoning works in making change,
then the scientific modality and rule of logic predicates that we all should follow it,
but if it does not work,
then Einstein had a phrase about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The NOI have taken thousands and changed their lives around while in prison or before they got there.
Look at Detroit Red
Would the approach you mention or your methodologies have made him change his path?
or did the NOI,
have scientific understanding of the methodologies of social psychology and what the Bible calls the renewing of the mind and what the scholars of Kemet called the KHEPERA
Now ask yourself how many potential Malcolms are out there now