What does Victory look like?
Music: "Wrath of Kane" - BDK
Peace,
I visited Black Electorate today (www.blackelectorate.com) and found an article on Roland Fryer a 27 year-old assistant professor at Harvard. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/magazine/20HARVARD.html) Fryer is an up and coming economist who has impressed many within the halls of academia with his research on the relationship between economics and social behavior. Basically, Fryer is trying to identify where Black folks went wrong, and the root of the myriad of social and cultural disparities that exist between Black people and other races within America. Anybody worth their weight in Black studies has a theory on the destruction of our people, ranging from slavery and PTSD to Capitalism to divine decree. Regardless of the view of the root, the solution will have to be multi-pronged and comprehensive in approach.
After thinking about that issue, I started to think "with all the focus on our current situation, what does the solution look like"? What does Freedom look like? Is it Zion-like? Is it scientific socialism or distributive black capitalism? Is it the freedom for everyone to live how they see fit, even if it's counter productive in the long term? Is it reform or revolution? Is it total participation in American society, or is it sovereignty? These are the hard questions that have to be answered if we intend on seeing a new day for ourselves specifically and all people generally. In the Supreme Alphabet, today's degree is Victory, and the first key to achieving victory is to be cognizant of what it looks like so that you can create a blueprint for success. We need to come up with individual and collective recipes for the the results that we want to see.
Peace,
I visited Black Electorate today (www.blackelectorate.com) and found an article on Roland Fryer a 27 year-old assistant professor at Harvard. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/magazine/20HARVARD.html) Fryer is an up and coming economist who has impressed many within the halls of academia with his research on the relationship between economics and social behavior. Basically, Fryer is trying to identify where Black folks went wrong, and the root of the myriad of social and cultural disparities that exist between Black people and other races within America. Anybody worth their weight in Black studies has a theory on the destruction of our people, ranging from slavery and PTSD to Capitalism to divine decree. Regardless of the view of the root, the solution will have to be multi-pronged and comprehensive in approach.
After thinking about that issue, I started to think "with all the focus on our current situation, what does the solution look like"? What does Freedom look like? Is it Zion-like? Is it scientific socialism or distributive black capitalism? Is it the freedom for everyone to live how they see fit, even if it's counter productive in the long term? Is it reform or revolution? Is it total participation in American society, or is it sovereignty? These are the hard questions that have to be answered if we intend on seeing a new day for ourselves specifically and all people generally. In the Supreme Alphabet, today's degree is Victory, and the first key to achieving victory is to be cognizant of what it looks like so that you can create a blueprint for success. We need to come up with individual and collective recipes for the the results that we want to see.
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