MASTER’S GRAND TEMPLE – PILOT PROGRAM – MASTER’S EDUCATION – FAITH-BASED DEVELOPMENT CLASS - 2010 The reason for developing this pilot program is due to the multitude of issues that the inner city citizens face today. At the root of most of the major problems that African Americans face is White systemic exclusion from large volumes of economic resources, connections to generations of people who have garnered high levels of all kinds of opportunities in developing power, business, innovation, networks, economic capitalization and seed funds for great ideas; better known as –The Racism Disease. Because of such severe blockers from generations of exclusion from funding opportunities and the constant rejection of requests for funds from African Americans by white power brokers – this behavior still haunts us today. Which in part wears us down and creates black on black: crabs in the barrel syndrome and crime. As an end result, the Willie Lynch Syndrome sets up residence in our (the black) communities. Beginning a spirit of “I got mine – you get yours mentality!” We hobble, walk and forge through the debilitating effects of the roots of systemic economic racism - (Some don’t make it through it at all.) As one white (naïve) millionaire quoted “You shouldn’t have to work that hard to make it.” I agree! Mr. Joseph Barndt the author of “Dismantling Racism – The Continuing Challenge To White America” states, ”Most people of color repress and internalize an enormous amount of anger – anger that may be expressed in ways that are destructive to themselves as individuals as well as to their own communities. This is one of the most demonic aspects of racism. A far more appropriate goal is for this anger to be directed against the system of white racism. At times this internalized rage is expressed in irrational and violent ways against white (and black) people. While violence in revenge is no more excusable than any other violence, such situations become even more com complex when whites, protected by our system, refuse to examine the reasons that underlie unwarranted or arbitrary actions by people of color. Whatever the specific situation, the point here is that such negative behavior by people of color cannot be designated as racist because they lack the collective power to enforce their will.”
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