Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...seems to have captured the essence of the ideological game when he observed that "we would have made a major step towards racial justice in America when a Black social scientist would be invited by The New York Times to write his analysis of the aspirations, conflicts of one group or another group of white America." Edward Said, in his book, Orientalism, also picked up the tendency on the part of The New York Times to play this kind of ideological game when he documented the manner in which they presented the "objective" views of both sides of the Arab...
...value of the achievements of young Black scholars. Revolutionary Black scholars, however, must not be bound by these limits nor should we be persuaded by their demagogy. Our responsibility must be determined by the internal rather than the external demands of our situation. As Minister Louis Farrakhan warned a group of Black scholars at Cornell University on September 28, 1980, "the black intellectual is being set up by the white American power structure to be scapegoats of the country's failure to deal with black America. If we allow this to happen, we will be doomed by history forever...
...such a denial of the 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...
...question of the self-accountability of the Black intellectual remains the predominant concern. We must structure our discourses and practices in such a manner that we assist in the liberation of our group. But to accept the burden of white America's failure is something we must never do. Mr. Gershman and Mr. Robert Klitgaard (as spokesmen for the dominant white class) will always try to put us into an ideological trick-bag. It is important that we never fall prey to such pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions...
...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...