LET DR. AMOS WILSON BE YOUR GUIDE: We see many of us along the highways and byways being very boastful, being very egocentric, bragging a great deal, pumping ourselves up, pumping even small achievements up into giant achievements. We see it even infecting the Black Nationalist community that buries itself in the great history of Egypt and the great empires of Afrika. Yes, I am speaking of the kind of historicism that has developed in this community as a means of not confronting reality! Of people who live their lives in history, and dig among the pyramids of Egypt, and dig among the lost kingdoms of Mali and Songhai, and who build themselves a false pride, and pump themselves up about the achievements of our history - without facing the perils of current reality and preparing themselves for the future. The Black Nationalist who makes us feel good - and pumps us up; and makes us gloat and glow about our great past, and does not deal with the present; and does not educate in terms of coping with the future; and does not adequately prepare us to remove the European from power, to remove these insane people who are about to destroy the earth and life itself - is functioning in the interest of the status quo. And those people who holler about the devilishness of the White man, the evilness of the White man, and leave it at that, still are not necessarily performing a full service for our people. There must be other things involved. We see then, many individuals blowing up their minor accomplishments as a means of ignoring the realities of their situation. The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness p.75
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