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“One of the basis for maintaining the power structure by a minority is that you minoritize the majority. In other words, you reduce the majority to minorities.
The Europeans being a minority must create differentiations within the Black majority, and that way they can conquer, and divide, and house. So you will find many of us African people achieving our identity not on the basis of our African ess, but on the basis of our national names.
Names given to us often by Europeans. So we identify ourselves as this or identify ourselves as that, not recognizing these are often the names Columbus gave us, somebody else gave us.
And we build our pride around a false name and a false image. Through titles and definitions that the oppressor imposes upon us. And that false identity is used to maintain disunity within the community. This is called desegregation. when some of us identify with the aggressor and in so doing helps them to maintain control over the masses. But ultimately if you look very closely, you will notice one thing: the real power relationship between those two groups does not change!
If we fall victim to this, then we will help to maintain the system that we’re in. Those of us who then identify ourselves this way of course are helping to maintain the problems instead of solving the problem.
That is why ultimately we must see the basic identity of our people as African, as people of African descent.
And that is why it is only by looking at it this way that we collectively are going to get out of our situation and our circumstances.”
— Dr. Amos N. Wilson (Paraphrased)
The Europeans being a minority must create differentiations within the Black majority, and that way they can conquer, and divide, and house. So you will find many of us African people achieving our identity not on the basis of our African ess, but on the basis of our national names.
Names given to us often by Europeans. So we identify ourselves as this or identify ourselves as that, not recognizing these are often the names Columbus gave us, somebody else gave us.
And we build our pride around a false name and a false image. Through titles and definitions that the oppressor imposes upon us. And that false identity is used to maintain disunity within the community. This is called desegregation. when some of us identify with the aggressor and in so doing helps them to maintain control over the masses. But ultimately if you look very closely, you will notice one thing: the real power relationship between those two groups does not change!
If we fall victim to this, then we will help to maintain the system that we’re in. Those of us who then identify ourselves this way of course are helping to maintain the problems instead of solving the problem.
That is why ultimately we must see the basic identity of our people as African, as people of African descent.
And that is why it is only by looking at it this way that we collectively are going to get out of our situation and our circumstances.”
— Dr. Amos N. Wilson (Paraphrased)
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