1987 SPECIAL REPORT: "BLACK COMMUNITY AT THE CROSS ROADS"

The Black community has faced some of the toughest challenges known to modern man and we have prevailed time and time again (our ancestors have been up to the challenges). Yes, we faced the notorious and vicious trans-Atlantic passage; 300 years of brutal chattel enslavement that reduced generations of Blacks to being less than animals and internalized this inferiority; Jim Crow segregation and physical and legal “apartheid” by denying Blacks access into American institutions and places; the “unchecked” violence and terrorism orchestrated by the KKK and now the local police inflicted on Black men with the sole purpose of destroying Black manhood (masculinity). Despite these unimaginable challenges, the Black community is still around and hasn’t given up the fight for full and complete freedom in America. Still, at some points in our history in America, Blacks have prospered under such inhumane conditions and oppression.
However, the racist enemy of the Black man today is even more lethal today than the “outward” racist of the past, because the enemy is hidden and invisible and is buried within all of America’s institutions. Racism is now structured with participation standards that disqualify a good portion of the Black community from the door at a time when America has developed a serious and “convenient” bout of amnesia. Because of the massive bombardment of negative Black images of inferiority; the danger that Blacks have been portrayed to be to mainstream America; and the substandard living conditions for Blacks, Blacks have lost the fight for justice and equality in public opinion and now ignorance of our “collective” past prevails. Now, many believe there is no need to treat the Black community any different than other groups.

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