Because Blacks need socio-economic transformation

Let’s think, act globally.

Since 1976 when Alex Haley’s magnum opus Roots established the historical truism that American Blacks are Africans, and showed the painful journey in slave ships across the Atlantic to the new world, the connection between Africa and Black America has mainly been in abundant talk and little action. That is why I wrote my second book, A Matter of Black Transformation, to stir us up to truly redemptive actions.

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 "A Matter Of Black Transformation is required for anyone who wants to understand 21st century problems facing Black people around the world and how to solve them. " 

- George Haley, former US Ambassador and brother of Roots author Alex Haley.

“This book, for the first time, lays out in clear terms the broader scope, the connecting links and contingencies of reinforcement that contributes to the perpetuation of the deprivation of Blacks in America.

- Dr. Bernard LaFayette, national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

To our collective chagrin, Blacks around the world are facing the same need for real meaningful education, economic empowerment through enterprise development and true political liberation that gives people effective political participation. We have omitted from the table of hope the challenge of addressing problems of less-empowering education, economic subjugation, social alienation and grand political deception. Many organizations in our communities boast of their longevity but show little relevance in terms of improving the dignity and living conditions of our people. They regrettably exist to boost the ego, public visibility and financial strength of their top brasses, and not the greater good of the greater number of our people. 

As a Black journalist, I have seen first hand the suffering of the masses of our people. I saw it in Black Africa and have been seeing it in Black America. I have seen the devastating result of a lack of meaningful education that leaves Black children with no real sense of identity and eventually makes them vulnerable and endangered. I have smelled the stench of racism masquerading in our public sphere as formalistic impersonality. I have also witnessed the blatant hypocrisy of some who claim to be Black liberators. But then, I quickly realized that Black liberation is a collective task - for the big and the small among us. Everyone should play their part to help transform Black communities, to set us free from our present socio-economic menace.

 An ear to the ground... 

In his unflinching search for invaluable information for his vast readers, Bankole has interviewed prominent and non-prominent people. Reach him at  bankole (at) bankolethompson.com

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