Anyone that takes the time to honestly look at the state of the Black Liberation Movement will see that our situation has changed so radically that a complete reassessment of what it means to fight for freedom is now in order. The answers and approaches that we presented in the past are largely inadequate in the 21st century, as we face new challenges like systemic homosexuality, vicious criminality and blind integration to name a few. As a race of people, we have not yet made any serious attempt to develop new and appropriate ways of facing these challenges.
Oftentimes in our desperate quest for liberation, Black people have the tendency to look for the right message from the wrong people. We have the horrific tendency to support and glorify individuals and organizations that have nefarious intentions for our race. As a result, too many Black people who would otherwise become freedom fighters are confused about what being conscious or woke actually is.
Spending so much time in the white world has taught Black people to act individually not collectively or communally. Even when we understand and express views of African communalism we act as self-centred individuals out to feather-our-own-nest rather than the builders of an effective way forward. – Baba Lumumba, Umoja House
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