BLACK LEADERSHIP !!!
It is important that the leadership of our struggle come from among our own people,
just as it is crucial that we build the necessary machinery that will develop this
leadership. The problem of leadership has always been a vexing one for Black people.
We must break with the old style of leadership forced upon us by the prevailing class
standards or we will fail in our struggle. Nonetheless, leadership is important,
especially to Black people, and without it we will never triumph in our struggle.
It is past time that Black intellectuals, professionals, and so-called Black scholars
assumed a more active role in the leadership of the liberation struggle, instead of
laying back theorizing and writing essays in a vacuum, or in various Black bourgeois
publications.
just as it is crucial that we build the necessary machinery that will develop this
leadership. The problem of leadership has always been a vexing one for Black people.
We must break with the old style of leadership forced upon us by the prevailing class
standards or we will fail in our struggle. Nonetheless, leadership is important,
especially to Black people, and without it we will never triumph in our struggle.
It is past time that Black intellectuals, professionals, and so-called Black scholars
assumed a more active role in the leadership of the liberation struggle, instead of
laying back theorizing and writing essays in a vacuum, or in various Black bourgeois
publications.
We realize that many of our Black scholars have their minds in pawn to the ruling class,
we are not primarily addressing ourselves to these particular individuals, but to those
brothers and sisters who have a relatively high level of awareness (political) and to
those Black intellectuals who are anti imperialist, anti capitalist) and pro Black
liberation. It is these Black intellectuals who must assume new positions of leadership
in our struggle by helping to build the necessary revolutionary apparatus that will forge
total liberation.