“Black or Afrikan nationalism is...a nationalism of liberation and self-determination, not of conquest and domination. It is premised on the precept that Blacks as a people should not be the subjects of another people nor should they subject other peoples; that Black peoples and nations should exercise their full rights to develop and utilize their material, human and spiritual resources primarily for their own benefit and well-being and for the benefit and well-being of others as they see fit to do. They view their personhood and humanity, their nationality and ethnicity as equal to that of any and all other persons or peoples, that they are not the inferiors of others and are not destined by god or man to exist in forced servitude to others. And when, and if, and for however long they may be willfully subjected to the domination of others, they are commissioned by their inalienable right to freedom as human beings to resist such domination and overthrow it as soon as humanly possible. This is the bedrock credo of Black nationalism today as it manifests itself in the United States of America, across the Diaspora and in the world.” Amos N. Wilson Blueprint for Black Power
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:24:43 +0000
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