Breaking the chains of psychological slavery by NAIM AKBAR Divided communities among African-Americans persist. The sophistication of the classes dividing the community has improved and the classifications have multiplied tremendously. Rather than house versus field, it is fraternities, sororities, schools, churches, white-collar, blue-collar, Republican, Democrat, neighborhoods and hundreds of other bases for divisions. The root is simple, but the basis for the separation is the same. That is, to keep the community divided. The origin of all of the classes, clubs and groups still come from the same source an outsider who still profits from our division. African-Americans now, as we did 300 years ago, still spend more time justifying our separate goals then we do working on goals. We are usually incapable of addressing our common problems because we feel that our separate problems are more important. This is another one of those constantly repeating dramas from slavery which we continue to act-out because we have not understood its origin in our not so distant slavery experience.
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