Black People : What do we Ultimately and Collectively Want?

[mazimtaim]

Understood. But the challenge remains the same. If we cannot resolve this, then we cannot complain about our eventual extinction.

As American Indians have said,

"Soon all the "Whites" will be Africans (Indians) and all the Africans (Indians) will be ghosts."

The Business of FancyDancing

 

[Omowale Jabali]

Understood. But the challenge remains the same. If we cannot resolve this, then we cannot complain about our eventual extinction.

As American Indians have said,

"Soon all the "Whites" will be Africans (Indians) and all the Africans (Indians) will be ghosts."

The Business of FancyDancing

We only become extinct if we continue to see ourselves as an "African-AMERICAN' "race" while Africans are embracing "non-racialism.

A House divided against itself cannot stand, especially if it is not "home".

 

[emanuel goodman]

to agree

have we agreed on any thing yet if so let's build on that. I dont care what it is. take a look around the world they all agree on something we have to agree with each other first. let's do that. hotep

 

[Blackbird]

The bottomline I'm trying to suggest is we have yet to pan out identity issues. Virtually, we are a group of people thrown together and forced to find unity and common purpose among ourselves due to our circumstances; however, that doesn't remedy that we don't operate in a manner consistent for the benefit of the whole. Until we answer the question of who we are, we will never be able to effective mobilize toward any objectives or goals. We automatically assume that we are one people because of our skin color, which is fallacious, but who said that - similiar to Black Christians automatically assuming because I'm Black, I'm Christian.


So can someone, without referencing Willie Lynch and other typical explanations for Black people, provide a definition of who we are?

Blackbird

 

[mazimtaim]

We only become extinct if we continue to see ourselves as an "African-AMERICAN' "race" while Africans are embracing "non-racialism.

A House divided against itself cannot stand, especially if it is not "home".

Omowalejabali, that is definitely a factor. But many believe that it will be fashionable soon to wage a much more open and destructive campaign on "Black" folk. Culture is not stagnant, it is ever evolving, ever moving. We must evolve our culture(s), to the point where there is enough unity to protect ourselves.