Black children "back in the day" were not taught that we were objects of pity, disadvantaged or under-privileged. Black pride was not about afros, dashikis, or boys wearing "braids." Black pride was about girls who didn't get pregnant but got an education. It was about boys who got a degree, or a steady job, and married the girl... not gotten her pregnant and abandoned her.
Let us be perfectly clear ~ Blacks are not born wards of the state. Their mental capacities are not underdeveloped because of something that happened 200 years ago. Millions of words have been written about the Colored, Black, Negro, Afro, and now African-American experience.
My book, Black YellowDogs, is one man's attempt, as suggested by Justice Clarence Thomas, "to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me."
I took Mama's advice. I formed the reading habit. I have been shocked, dismayed, enlightened, and encouraged by what I've read. If you disagree with me, research the historical facts and arrive at your own conclusions.
Don't let me or anyone else make decisions for you. Think for yourself. The operative word being "think."
Talk to me.
