Day: February 5, 2014

Some Black folks mistakenly think that Black folks like me who share unpleasant or unacknowledged truths with and about Black people or the Black condition are “crabs in a barrel.” Obviously, them folks have never been crab hunting. Crab hunters don’t use harshness, or the truth to capture the crabs and place them in the barrel. They use subterfuge and deception, not the truth. They use traps that appear to be safe havens for...

This Western Elite don’t just suppress knowledge of Black History, they suppress the understanding of history in general. The average White person is as ignorant of their history, if not more so than the average Black person is ignorant of their history. Knowledge of History allows people to recognize patterns, to map reality, it gives them context and a foundational understanding of how things came to be, why they are the way they are...