Then there's the agendas mentioned earlier. The three most prominent agendas that work against black unity is profiteering (pursuit of fortune), notoriety (desire to be famous), and self-hatred (anti-black sentiments within the race).
Those who put money before unity (whether its at the street level [gangs/drugs] or so-called businessmen "getting theirs") will not put their economic interest at risk for collective interest and thus, will limit their involvement to tokenism. Those who want to be famous will do anything (and say anything) to be famous, thus neutralizing themselves in the unity movement. You can't say you're for black unity or black dignity while degrading the race in music and film, or saying what the white man can't say (the rise of the black conservative) to undermine black equality. Then there are those who, no matter what you do, will not trust Blacks enough to pursue an interest agenda. You have rich Blacks distrust of poor Blacks (and vice versa), educated Blacks that devalue uneducated Blacks (and vice versa), nationalist Blacks distrusting integrationist Blacks (an argument that goes back 100 years to the DuBois-Washington conflict), then throw in religion, politics, lifestyles, and you have what we have in the black community today, a total, directionless, mess.
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Friday, December 24th 2010 at 7:06AM
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