| Ted Timar 2005-03-26, 6:05 pm |
| we're not going to get it saying
"We Shall Overcome." We've got to fight until we overcome.
The economic philosophy of black nationalism is pure and simple. It only
means that we should control the economy of our community. Why should
white people be running all the stores in our community? Why should
white people be running the banks of our community? Why should the
economy of our community be in the hands of the white man? Why? If a
black man can't move his store into a white community, you tell me why a
white man should move his store into a black community. The philosophy
of black nationalism involves a re-education program in the black
community in regards to economics. Our people have to be made to see
that any time you take your dollar out of your community and spend it in
a community where you don't live, the community where you live will get
poorer and poorer, and the community where you spend your money will get
richer and richer.
Then you wonder why where you live is always a ghetto or a slum area.
And where you and I are concerned, not only do we lose it when we spend
it out of the community, but the white man has got all our stores in the
community tied up; so that though we spend it in the community, at
sundown the man who runs the store takes it over across town somewhere.
He's got us in a vise.
So the economic philosophy of black nationalism means in every church,
in every civic organization, in every fraternal order, it's time now for
our people to be come conscious of the importance of controlling the
economy of our community. If we own the stores, if we operate the
businesses, if we try and establish some industry in our own community,
then we're developing to the position where we are creating employment
for our own kind. Once you gain control of the economy of your own
community, then you don't have to picket and boycott and beg some
cracker downtown for a job in his business.
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