“…The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.” — Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson
Amazing to me still, nearly 80 years since Carter G. Woodson’s declaration, is the continued mis-education of the Negro by the Negro.
It is the oppression of a race of people by certain ones in that race of people. It is the church-sanctioned pimping of the poor that sifts without apology, even from widows, their last dollar for the building of yet another multi-million-dollar edifice, in the name of God.
It is those narcissistic clergy who live on the tithes of the impoverished while standing aloof from the poverty and social trauma that engulfs their people — preachers whose followers serve them when it is the preacher who has been called — if indeed he has been called — to serve them. (Chicago Sun-Times)
