In the 400-year war between Blacks and whites, Blacks were never properly armed for what we have endured. From the shores of Africa where the protective Spears of warriors met the greed and explosive white powder of Euro capitalist-explorers, to today's miniature arsenal of Black wealth against the mega-riches of white capital, the strategies and preparedness of Blacks have always fallen short compared to that of whites. So how have we and do we maintain? Read On.

Winning a war with limited resources is always a challenge, yet not impossible. Many major wars have been won by small bands of dedicated and determined armies. The secret is having purpose compelled by the necessity of justice. For instance, in the Revolutionary War American armies fought hard with the British unto a victory for liberation; again, in the Civil War, the Confederate army, with limited resources, gave the Union army a run for their money.

In the war of racial justice betwixt Black and whites throughout American history, on limited resources have Blacks fought hard for liberty and justice. However, as a minority, the fight has been long and yet to be fulfilled, and still the war continues. Considering the strategies of Black leaders and rebels over the past 400 years, the question is which strategy has worked more effectively, and if any, how effective has or is it working now?

One point must be taken into consideration before answering this question. The effectiveness of any Black strategy or movement of progression has and even now would depend, unfortunately, on the compliance of white America. This battle in itself is one that requires serious discussion at the table of war-time counsel of Black leaders and thinkers, and may be a concept neglected that has hindered all other serious efforts at progression.

Pondering whether or not something should be done based on the acceptance of white America is a poor strategy because it is defeatist from the start. It says that regardless of what we plan to achieve, the white man is assumed to have afore knowledge of that plan and would probably disapprove, leaving us in a position of a subservient and naked nature. We must at some point think and plan for ourselves without the white man being a part of that vision.

For example, when a slave decided they would run his or her vision was that of freedom from the white man, not along side the white man. Not once was it resolved whether or not the white man would approve or disapprove, the soul requires its freedom regardless of the consequences. Justice mattered none to a running slave except that death could become him, which would fulfill that desire for freedom.

Likewise, the Black mind of today must think toward that same freedom despite the consequences. What rules are set in stone except for the rules embedded on the heart that desires true freedom? No political or legislative policy can make any man free; we have legislation and are still not free. We fight continuously against the spirits of racist past and present that dwells behind nearly every smiling face and signature on a bill.

Progressive Resistance

From the late 1800s to the era of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black merchant built an economy of Black-to-Black business that thrived and fed the Black community. However, we met with the spirit of jealousy that gathered demonic souls and handed them ropes and crosses and matches as well as signature pens that did nothing more but regulate, to their liking, the distance the Black community could from there forth go.

Resistance is deep within the psyche of Black America on many fronts; from the elitist to the projects, however, complacency is preferred, which stems from the reluctance to upset the white man's order of things. In other words, we worry too much about what he will say and think and or do.

Returning to the first question of "how have we and do we maintained," the answer is within the hearts of our resistant brothers and sisters. Not in a negative sense, but in a sense that many Blacks have not conformed nor compromised their dignity or self-worth by submitting to the system of American ways. If all submitted unto these ways there would be no true Blackness within any of us. We maintain our Blackness by challenge.

On the question of "which strategy has worked more effectively, and if any, how effective has or is it working now," first, let us define the two strategies: One is called integration where-with the Black man is suppose to interconnect with the white man and his system in order to learn his system, which supposedly promises to survival. This is the strategy by which we live now.

The second and last strategy is called segregation, whereby the Black man disassociates himself from the white man and his ways and reestablishes a system of his own, in other words, supporting and sustaining one another while maintaining trade amongst other cultures and races. This is the strategy that was destroyed in exchange for integration. Yet, now, however, white men believe that Blacks have become too dependant (through Affirmative Action and welfare) and is now subtly withdrawing his first attempt at integration.

So what is the Black man's strategy against how we are living now? Removal of the Black self from the system of the white man and maintain self-sufficiency. It may sound easy and many may ask "how do we remove ourselves from the system and what system are we referring? This is where we go into the Phase 7 Agenda of Black self-sufficiency from the battle plan of Afromerica.

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© 2004 by C.R. Hamilton