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Originally posted by Exquisite5
Do you think Blacks can rise as a class? Are we too far gone for that? Must we rise individually in hopes that over time it will be a majority of us that have risen, and then as a class we will be financially and politically independent? Or, is this just an excuse for us to foster elitism and leave the most needy, often most disfranchised and sold out by the system behind? I am really concerned however by the assertion that we can't rise together: what do you think?
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At this point in my life, and where I am living now, I have no idea...
Some time ago (and if you search some of my past posts--especially the Afrikan Centered ones), I would have said as people of African descent, we cannot rise alone in this current world...
However, with things as they are today, what is "rising" and who is an "individual"???
I think we are in the "state" we are in with all the "bling bling" and "me.com" mentality. Given that most of us are "consumers" of the world's resources and not "investors" of the world's resources then how else could we rise together on anything? Much less agree on something?
Then there is something to say about greed, and the virtue of it...
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