African Americans: A Unique and A Peculiar Lot By: Imam W Deen Mohammed (08/25/1984) WE HAVE TO understand that we are not responsible for the progress and favorable circumstances in our life today. We have to understand that the labor of many who have passed away with their suffering and their sacrifices have worked to make possible whatever conveniences, whatever opportunities we have today. We have to become a grateful people — grateful to G_d, grateful to history, grateful to those men who made it honorable and grateful to those women who made it honorable. We have to become history conscious people. We have to have a sense of progress in time so that we dont become arrogant, defiant and ugly in our attitudes. Dear beloved people, we are a unique and peculiar lot. I dont know of another people in history who were put in our kind of situation — separated from the past, cut off from ancestral, traditional life and thoroughly subdued or oppressed by the kind of slavery and the degree of slavery that we have experienced. I dont know of a people in history who experienced such circumstances and sought freedom, but did not realize that they needed an education for liberation — an education for liberation coming from them and not from the oppressor. I only know of us. I think that is because we are the only people in history who have suffered the extent of separation from past life and past experiences that removed the natural urge to equip the members of our lot with an education for liberation. It (liberation) was attempted but it was never completed. We were not sophisticated enough to meet the connivance of the power holders, the exploiters of the West. We were not sophisticated enough to deal with them to meet their schemes and beat them at their game and win for ourselves dignity and establishment.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:43:33 +0000
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