Friday, September 17, 2010

Thought of the day; let’s examine Carter G. Woodson’s quote

“If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.”

 
If you just examine this quote and historically examine the effects of the distortion of the truth from the period of the pyramids to the modern day pulpit, one must consciously chose to ignore written and unwritten history. My purpose is not to deliver a history lesson but to disquiet your intellect to address a global concern. With the alarming statistics we’re facing in the early 21st century, the solutions may be found in historical clarification to the disputes of the present and provide the future study of our lineage in the past. His conception to understanding and reassuring his need to fill the missing historical self-motivated purposelessness, can and only will enhance the barriers which have been strategically placed through the hypothesis of inclusion / assimilation theory of the contributions of African / African American males, in the representation of world history. But, that’s one component of many phases need to develop a male of self fulfilling purpose


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