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Subject: Black Elitism/Black Capitalism: Part II
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:56:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Lorenzo Ervin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello Brothers and Sisters:
Thank you for responding to "Black Capitalism" pt. 2.
I am glad to see us really discussing these matters,
which are not in any way mere abstract questions, but
rather go to the fundamental question of what kind of
society do we really want? One which has classes of
desperately poor and excessively rich, one which has
all economic power in the hands of a white [or some
day Black] elite, or one where the needs of the people
are met and we are all on the same economic level.
I do not accept *elitist* arguments of a "talented
tenth", "better class of Blacks", or the "incorrigible
poor". This type of argument shows that it is only
thinking "within the box", that is within the confines
of the present capitalist system, which *creates*
crime and deprivation. Capitalism creates inequality,
and poverty creates a lack of culture. Somebody said
to me a long time ago, ignorance is merely lack of
knowledge, while stupidity is total foolishness. Many
of our people are politically ignorant to the workings
of this system, and they are being debased, but they
are not stupid. Ain't no mystery to this ya'll, don't
get to think that you are something special, you could
be the same as any of the least of our people.
Remove the conditions of oppression, and any of our
people in the most degrading of conditions, can ascend
to any social station in life, even higher than many
of you looking down your noses at the poor. They can
be the next Malcolm X, Martin Luther King or whomever
we exalt as Black leadership. Middle class Black
people have got to put aside their own class blinders
and prejudices against their own people. It is
oppressive, plantation thinking ("house nigger vs.
field niggers"), and keeps us from accepting our
people where they are.
Seems to me, our task as Black activists, people who
say they love Black people, is to fight for the uplift
of *all our people*, not feed them to the white
government and its prisons and graveyards. We cannot
get our liberation without fighting for the liberation
of the poor, so let's organize the 'hood.
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
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