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The Way I See It
- By Jack Crawford
African Disunity and White Supremacy - Our Greatest Challenges
Those of you who are familiar with my point of view have probably heard me
constantly advocate our need to oppose white supremacy all the
time. To eliminate white supremacy is to make a way for a solution
to all the economic, social and political problems facing African
people all over the world.
I had a talk the other day with one of my closest personal mentors
who disputed this premise. As a lifelong scholar and now professor
of African studies, and a person whose efforts and heart have
always been dedicated to the advancement of our people, his words
were simple but so true. "It is not white supremacy that
is the root cause of our problems, it is African disunity!"
He said:
I can go on forever. I don't like saying these things about us
and you don't like hearing it. But it's true. The our enemies
planted the seeds of disunity into our thinking a long time ago.
Read Len Hubbard's piece on Willie Lynch. Those seeds grew into
a world dominated by white supremacy and African peoples from
all over that don't recognize their most basic common interests.
A world where we bought into lies about us, our history, our value
as people, our ability to succeed and our spiritual selves. The
result is the disunited African community of today. And our enemies
know this. Whenever they perceive the possibility that we might
unify they place maximum efforts toward making sure we remain
divided. (Popular examples of the tools of recent vintage: Cointelpro;
ready availability of drugs and guns; assassination of or discrediting
any leader who could not be bought; poor, Eurocentricly-based
education).
We cannot end white supremacy as a concept. However, if we reeducate
ourselves and reorient our thinking to stop hating us and all
the things that remind us of us, we will win. Unity of all African
is the way out. Remember, it is not the names calls you that matters.
What masters is which names to which you answer.
It is fine to oppose white supremacy all the time, everyplace
we go, everyplace we are with vigor and strength. White supremacy
is our enemy (and the enemy of white people, too). However, we
can't unilaterally control it. But, we can affect how we individually
perceive the world and ourselves. White supremacy cannot flourish
where African unity exists. We can control our destiny. (jc 10-22-93)
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