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
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"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |