#Repost @maarifacircle ・・・ - ℹ Movie - "Fly by night ℹ °•○●• “I want you to recognize that power ultimately has to do with a relationship between people. White so-called “power” is to a great extent based upon the nature of the relationship he has with the Black man. We empower him by the nature of our own behavior and attitude as a people. He cannot be what he is unless we are what we are. To a good extent, the European is our creation. Yes. If we look at our behavior we will see that to a good extent it is our behavior, our values, our consciousnesses, the kind of personalities we’ve established in ourselves, our tastes, our desires and needs that maintain the European in his position. We talked about the Civil Rights Movements and the Apartheid system of the South. When Blacks decided just to get out of the buses and walk, the system changed. Just changing that relationship changed the nature of power in that system. When they decided just to walk side by side when they decided to walk abreast and line themselves up, because they had not walked that way before, the relationship changed. When they kept their moneys in their pockets, when they sat on those stools and blocked the other people from them, it changed the nature of the interactions between themselves and Europeans; the nature of the system changed. So therefore, we have tremendous power. It depends upon how we align ourselves as a people and how we decide to relate to other people in the world, because they cannot have what they have unless we are who we are. And that is why we don’t have to spend a great deal of time always appealing to them and analyzing them. Because we can better appeal to our own sense of self and our own consciousness. And we waste a lot of time trying to transform them, when through transforming ourselves, they will be transformed automatically." - #DrAmosWilson #knowledgeofself #MisEducation #study2liberatenot2debate #maarifasite #racism #power
