“Children are ultimately born to the community because they will influence the nature of the community. If the children that are born in the community are self-hating, have problems with their identity, or self-controlled or destructive and so forth, you will see a community that will fall apart, a community that is at odds with…
Tag: Words From The Wise
Words From The Wise: William A. Darity Jr.
“A very standard kind of claim by individuals who say that (and I think this is a false dichotomy) ‘class trumps race,’ is the claim that our patterns of wealth inequality probably track our patterns of income inequality. Well, no.” – Professor William A. Darity Jr. Antonio Moore from ToneTalksĀ first introduced me to the…
Words From The Wise: Dr. Llaila Afrika
“When a disease goes so far and we just can’t figure out what’s going on, a nice category to throw it in is called cancer. And the treatment for that has never been proven successful in any situation. If radiation, chemotherapy was successful then a healthy person can take it to be more healthy. If…
Words From The Wise: Jay Winter Nightwolf
“When the European invader came here in the late 1490s there were 112 million of us in this Republic of the United States; it’s not a country, it’s a Republic. And in less than 500 years, through genocidal practices, through the introduction of diseases that we had no immunity to, and other evil things that…
Words From The Wise: Dr. Sebi
“The body was not designed to be sick. Bird doesn’t get sick. Elephant doesn’t get sick; he needs no vet. The lions doesn’t need a vet, neither is a giraffe or any of the natural animals. Why do we get sick? There has a been a violation that is costing us our life today. And…
Words From The Wise: Dr. Joy DeGruy
“We’re looking at 246 years of American chattel slavery, and it’s very comfortable. And I think, to some degree, people can say, ‘you can’t have 246 years of trauma and expect that nothing happened’; especially when that trauma was followed by more trauma; especially given the fact that there was never a point of healing….
Words From The Wise: Dr. Claud Anderson
“Unfortunately, that’s what black folk have been fed for 150 years is symbolic achievements, symbolic success; ‘well, you got a Black President, you got Martin Luther King Blvd, you got Rosa Parks Blvd.’ But you didn’t touch the structural issue. You did not go back and redistribute some of the resources back into the hands…
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