While the data is clear how white men have sought to disadvantage and detain the life of black men, one truth remains… black men, women and children have had to adapt in ways that have led to the internalization of racist values. We have now become captive to our own bondage. We’ve bought into the idea that self hate is safer than self actualization. Self hate is merely to agree with the notion that white men hold power to win.
RECOVERY is here to return compassion for our story and take back our power. It is not sufficient to relegate white life to one protected from the truth of its limitations in power any more than it is sufficient to relegate black life to one enthroned with power.
The reality of race is its representation of the eroded self – the self that goes unrecognized or that is constantly distorted and weakened. Race is the range of psychological and social consequences of existence in a racist society rather than a color.
So for our blackness let us declare it a badge of honor, courage, travail and flawless power! Begin Black again.