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We Must Always Attempt To Lift As We Climb

We Can't Talk About The Black Community. It's No Longer A Homogeneous Community; It Was Never A Homogeneous Community.

We Have Inherited A Fear Of Memories Of Slavery. It Is As If To Remember And Acknowledge Slavery Would Amount To Our Being Consumed By It. As A Matter Of Fact, In The Popular Black Imagination, It Is Easier For Us To Construct Ourselves As Children Of Africa, As The Sons And Daughters Of Kings And Queens, And Thereby Ignore The Middle Passage And Centuries Of Enforced Servitude In The Americas. Although Some Of Us Might Indeed Be The Descendants Of African Royalty, Most Of Us Are Probably Descendants Of Their Subjects, The Daughters And Sons Of African Peasants Or Workers.

I Would Suggest Is That In The Latter 1990s It Is Extremely Important To Look At The Predicament Of Black People Within The Context Of The Globalization Of Capital.

The Campaign Against The Death Penalty Has Been - While A Powerful Campaign, Its Participants Have Been Those Who Attend All Of The Vigils, A Relatively Small Number Of People.