Go With the Flow of Unity

The vital intellectual energy of the nation is dammed up. Cooperation in a great undertaking with a high goal is what we need to dissolve the blockage.

I think the great undertaking should be to penetrate the core of racism and eliminate it at its root - slavery. The result would be a release of creativity that would put the squeeze on poverty and crime, generating wealth in the process.

The lesson I've learned about slavery - my emotions notwithstanding - is that Africans suppressed their own history and culture and ushered in the institution.

This runs counter to what now is believed. Still, the truth is that one person or group can't put another person or group into slavery. One can make the other a prisoner, but the prisoner must decide whether to be a slave and assume the behavior required.

If it were true that Europeans had the unilateral power to create slavery, then the Native Americans would have become slaves. And if it were true that Europeans had the unilateral power to create slavery, then it would mean they are inherently superior.

Now - more than ever - it is necessary to focus on how slavery functioned, how it was/ is passed along and acted out today, and how the crippling cycle can be interrupted.