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Black Leadership...: "The issue of chattel slavery, and the systematic rape and murder of an African people is increasingly being heard in the dialogue of the Black community. Such dialogue however, only indicates a potential for a resistance movement on the slavery issue and not a predictor.
How the African-American community addresses or does not address, engages or does not engage this issue will define us as a people to this nation and to the world. It will explain if the strident Black voices of social protest heard frequently in the national discourse are the products of a broad moral vision or simply the whimpering of self-interest--whether the gnashing of our teeth over social injustice is just an empty sound emanating from a people whose practice of morality is clearly selective.
Those in the Black community who claim identification with Africa will be unable to rise to this historic occasion without the ability to access and process accurate information. It would also be beneficial if the Black community had leadership on the issue of slavery--the sad truth is that it does not. All the African-American leaders in this country--produce your own list if you desire--are hiding under their beds until this gunfight over the question of slavery is over.
This disgraceful, cowardly and self-serving behavior also holds true in Africa. 'Why haven't African regional or continental organizations exposed and attacked slavery,' is the trenchent rejoinder from William Pleasant of the Daily Challenge 3/30. Pleasant presses the issue by stating that 'It would stand to reason that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) would lead the charge against such a barbaric practice in its own back yard. But the OAU has remained silent.'"
How the African-American community addresses or does not address, engages or does not engage this issue will define us as a people to this nation and to the world. It will explain if the strident Black voices of social protest heard frequently in the national discourse are the products of a broad moral vision or simply the whimpering of self-interest--whether the gnashing of our teeth over social injustice is just an empty sound emanating from a people whose practice of morality is clearly selective.
Those in the Black community who claim identification with Africa will be unable to rise to this historic occasion without the ability to access and process accurate information. It would also be beneficial if the Black community had leadership on the issue of slavery--the sad truth is that it does not. All the African-American leaders in this country--produce your own list if you desire--are hiding under their beds until this gunfight over the question of slavery is over.
This disgraceful, cowardly and self-serving behavior also holds true in Africa. 'Why haven't African regional or continental organizations exposed and attacked slavery,' is the trenchent rejoinder from William Pleasant of the Daily Challenge 3/30. Pleasant presses the issue by stating that 'It would stand to reason that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) would lead the charge against such a barbaric practice in its own back yard. But the OAU has remained silent.'"
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