Every Negro Is A Star
Today February 23rd is the day we were blessed however, briefly, with our great ancestor Dr. Amos Wilson. A giant of a scholar amongst our community during the Afrocentric movement in the late 80s and early 90s.
Yup, that’s right a whole resurgence of Afrocentric thought, history and culture. A whole movement that took place in the last quarter at the turn of the century.
From the advent of the civil rights era to the desperate & nefarious infiltration of the FBI via COINTELPRO into the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense.
This was certainly a passionately charged period with a growing capacity of racial pride. So recently in fact that any promotion on national television to this day would still serve as a crippling blow to western societies status quo and further strengthen our faction in the cold war against melanin.
Just A Month…Really
One month is not nearly enough time, for you and I to reflect on our rich history. Really think about it… ironically the shortest month out of the year has been attributed to the oldest people on the planet.
You just may have missed it, no fault to you its by design. Still one must work to remember that the revolution is not to be televised.
Imagine that, a whole two decades of virtually underground African scholars and proven research suppressed by academia and ignored by media.
The thing is… we don’t need a month, it’s too sparse between eleven other months. Especially with twenty-eight days (nine if we’re leap year lucky)! Then what, are we supposed to shove our history and culture back in the closet on March 1st?
Nah we need every waking moment, especially in 2022.
Today In History!
A star was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941 Dr. Amos finished his undergrad at Morehouse and got his Ph.D. from Fordham University.
Dr. Wilson in his life dedicated to Pan-Africanism produced to the people his work conducted in the fields of psychology & sociology as a professor at the City University of New York.
Dr. Wilson Dropped The Blueprint Before Jay-Z!
On YouTube, you can find hours of his recorded speeches, most of which have been turned into books available for purchase.
However Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century stands apart as his magnum opus.
The book goes in length about power in very practical terms, how it is created, sustained, and exploited from black people both economically and politically.
The Education System Failure
Every moment is precious to address the sea of miseducation which schools us like guppies, for the slaughter.
Vicious miseducation, more often than not that portrays the lowest, degrading, and most shameful aspects & perspectives in our community.
Almost as if the only time to focus on the American Black man is to attempt to reflect our unaddressed generational trauma to the world.
Globally we are viewed as nothing more than expendable entertainment.
It was addressing and confronting this miseducation that Dr. Wilson fought remorselessly against.
With a warrior scholarly spirit, one could attribute to the Orisha Shango, Dr. Amos would slaughter prejudices and stereotypes targeted to the African-Diaspora.
“Has The School System Every Set Us Up For Anything BUT Failure?”
These were the hard questions, Dr. Wilson demanded of his, our community. Iquiries that challenge you beyond the survival humdrum thinking of everyday life; he envisioned prosperity.
Questions which make you considered; what end are we moving our community in, as we flow like inertia in the direction and fashion designed by people whose only objective for us is to remain in a subservient position in life.
Dr. Amos advocated like many other scholars and leaders in our community, that we should not just accept what we hear about one another from the public point of view.
He instructed us to see through the curtain of stereotypes and generalizations drapped infront of our proud community.
To view things in the original light that it was intended.
How Things Are Vs. How They Are Perceived
For instance melanated people are stereotypicaly associated with the welfare program and our community made the poster as are the champions of public assistance
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