Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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However, in spite of what the dominant white bourgeoisie press says, the Black underclass is organizing itself to confront the dominant white class of exploiters. In the summer of 1980, over 1,000 delegates from all over the country went to the Brooklyn Armoury to from the Black United Front...
...external responsibility of the Black underclass should not blind us to our internal responsibility towards our group. Our function as petty bourgeoisie elements within the society is to continue to struggle to structure enabling discourses and practices which will subvert and destroy the white bourgeoisie system of class exploitation and racial opression. Such at any rate is the manner in which Paulo Freire defines the function of education in his work, Pedagogy of the Opressed. Secondly, we should make the so-called Black underclass aware of our mutual opression and the necessity to unite and to struggle against the beast...
...people. To disagree with Dr. Clark, no white American could ever structure any dialogue or practice whereby we can begin to come to terms with our own enslavement. The oppressor has never taught the oppressed a liberating ideology or education nor will he ever do so in any class society. While progressive whites may assist in the structuring of such discourses and practices the essential responsibility must remain within the group that is oppressed...
...difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle." (Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy, P.12) The African revolutionary theorist, Amilcar Cabral puts it this way: "In order to fulfull the role in the national liberation struggle, the revolutionary petty bourgeoisie must be capable of committing suicide as a class in order to be reborn as revolutionary workers, completely identified with the deepest aspirations of the people to which they belong." (Revolution in Guinea...
Together, we must seek a better overstandingof our oppressed condition. We must recognize that the chief weapon in the hands of the white bourgeois class is that of its ideology which is used to control and to manipulate our people. The trick of the ruling white class, however, is to make these ideas appear as though they were as natural as any law of physical nature. Therefore, if the Black underclass can't make it in the country, it is the Black bourgeoisie who is responsible for their failure...