The Economic Salvation of African Americans

Though African Americans have made progress under the aegis of American civil rights ideology, they still lag behind non-blacks in earnings and wealth. Not only that, in the key category of ownership of economic institutions, they consistently end up with less than one percent of business sales and revenues.

This makes the African American community deeply subservient to other ethnic and racial groups in the U.S., not in a position of economic strength, not only in spite of, but because of the civil rights ideology. The following article compares black nationalist greats Malcolm X and Rene W.E.B. Du Bois with contemporary civil rights leaders in terms of the economic ideology and possibilities they offer and concludes blacks would be better off following black nationalist ideas, many
of which are supported by and elaborated in Prout ........ Read More