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BLACK PRIDE Where and when did it go? |
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Written by Steve Santos
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
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“We do not live in the past, but the past in us” - U. B. Phillips
NEW BEDFORD, MA - It wasn’t that long ago, that black pride was evident every where black people lived, worked or played. It was read about, songs were sung about it, poems were written about it, and expressions of it were common place in the black community.
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Unity of purpose solidified the local ideas for the enrichment and betterment for quality of life issues that the black community was denied because of segregation and discrimination. Black religious leaders of different beliefs, within the black community, joined in an alliance that perpetuated the ideals of moral=2 0servitude; they crossed the borders that had separated them in the past, from becoming a unified people with a common bond, the belief in black pride. While there are many, the likes of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the Minister Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, come to mind as movers and shakers in the black community, at the moment.
Like so much of black history, black pride as become a thing of the past, as though, the song “say it loud I’m Black and I’m Proud” never was sung. Does the suppression of black history, play a vital role in black achivement, in mainstream America? Is “Black History Month” the sum total of history of a people that have been part of America since its inception as we know it today!
Did political ideology replace “black pride” with “multi-cultralism pride” or with the “pride” of other movements, as if they could “feel your pain”?
Today Black America is for the most part is shackled to a political ideology that keeps it poor, illiterate and segregated. Gone are the days of self-determination, which produced better educated black people who lifted themselves out of poverty faster than after the civil rights movement of the 60’s. Black pride, where and when did it go, if it existed at all?Only registered users can write comments.
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