Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

Platform and Program
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"Today we know the American
system for what it is,
neo-colonial racism functioning
to pacify Black people
and to influence Black
a~airs with revisionary subversion"
$;~"~;; OST Black people who
are seriously concerned
about the nature
of the Black
struggle in education
automatically embrace the Black
University concept . This thought
process is usually based on a taste
for the term, the security of being
included, and the assumption that
Black must necessarily mean liberation
. But it is a dangerous process
unless we, as Black people, discipline
ourselves to never-for-even-a-
NEGRO DIGEST March 1969
LE, !DE L®GY
D THE
I SITY
BY GERALD A. McWORTER
moment stop our analysis of the
man and his subtle forms of oppression
and subversion . We must
require of ourselves honest scientific
analysis (immersed in our
spirit-emotions) of how educational
activities can lead to-and be a
part of-the struggle for the liberation
of all Black people . One of the
best ways to understand this is to
pin the ideological basis of the term
as it is used by different people .
The dangerous uses of the term
fall under the ideological position
of REVISIONARY NEO-CO-
LONIAL RACISM, while the progressive
forces of Black-our
struggle-must be/are guided by
REVOLUTIONARY PAN-AF-
RICAN NATIONALISM . These
are descriptive terms that conveniently
cover polar opposites,
though clearly a systematic analysis
would yield more precise types of
each . However, this article is not
meant to be merely a methodologi-
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