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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: The impact of White supremacy How many times have you heard someone of African ancestry say that, 60;Black people are our own worst enemy?61; If you have lived among African people in this country for any length of time, I am sure you have heard this remark made many times. Unfortunately, the system of White supremacy developed in the western world has caused far too many African people in America to believe that the problem we face as a people is 60;us.61; We must remind ourselves, time and time again, that African people in America were captured from Africa and brought to America against our will. If African people are going to ever have a serious mental breakthrough in our analysis of our condition in America, we will have to resolve if we are our own worst enemy, or has the system of White supremacy created a set of conditions that continue to keep us in an oppressed state? We must accept responsibility for answering this question as well as for solving all the problems we face as a people. But we must also have a framework out of which to properly conceptualize our problems. In 1852, the great African thinker in America, Dr. Martin R. Delany, wrote one of the most important books that accurately described our condition at that moment in history that is still applicable to our condition today. The title of the book is 60;Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.61; Mr. Delany wrote: 60;Unfortunately for us as a body, we have been taught that we must have some person to think for us, instead of thinking for ourselves. So accustomed are we to submission and this kind of training, that it is with difficulty, even among the most intelligent of the colored people, an audience may be elicited for any purpose whatever, if the expounder is to be colored.61; Further, he wrote, 60;and the introduction of a subject is treated with indifference, if not contempt, when the originator is a colored person. Indeed, the most ordinary white person is almost revered, while the most qualified colored person is totally neglected, nothing from them is appreciated.61; In resolving the question of whether we are our own worst enemy, we should reflect that for over 300 years White people openly discussed African people as a problem (1600 - 1900). Today, they still discuss us as a problem, but the language is coded differently. On the discussions that White people have had on what they have historically called 60;The Negro Problem,61; As Dr. Anderson Thompson has written, 60;There is a duality in the story of the western white man and his culture, which, paradoxically, is thrown into sharp relief wherever the Black man appears (or is dropped) on the scene.61; He says, 60;Whenever or wherever the white man exists in proximity to the Blacks, the Negro Question appears.61; The idea of the 60;Negro Question61; is discussed further when Dr. Thompson writes, 60;The Negro Question in Western society has been a perennial subject of endless international debates, actions, decisions, wars, riots, lynchings52;all of which flow out a recurring western dialogue: a conversation (for Europeans only) which for a long time took place between white men over what should be done with, about or to the Blacks they found in their captured territories.61; Concluding on this point, Dr. Thompson informs us: 60;The International Negro Question, or [N----r] Question has, for the most part, been an integral past of European Civilization. Wherever in the world there existed. Europeans in proximity to the African, inevitably the question arose as to how (not why, I nor whether) the Black man should be exploited or should be eliminated.61; We are not our own worst enemy52;even though some African people in this country behave in manners that are not in our best interest. What we must continue to do is understand this negative African behavior and assume responsibility for changing it. The enemy and problem is White supremacy and its continued impact on us. (Dr. Conrad Worrill is the national chairman of the National Black United Front. He may be contacted via email at nbufchic@allwavs.net.) © Copyright 2007 FCN Publishing, http://FinalCall.com
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So correct the proximity.
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