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17-02-08, 07:05 PM
"I have become increasingly convinced that appeals to "racial pride" and moral duty has not produced the desired effect within the mass of the Diasporic communities, despite more than a century of serious scholarly work and several decades of broad access to empowering information. What I am suggesting is that we have too long ignored the strategies of influential corporations such as Coca Colaä and Nikeä along with a host of others who apply sophisticated marketing strategies to reach urban youth using the predominance of youth music culture to ultimately undermine any enlightened self-interests of the target community.
It should be we, who have long inspired the language and fashion of the world, who use these powerfully influential cultural axioms to determine the destiny of the vast numbers of our youth. In our present state we are the victims of others who use this knowledge to jeopardize our very existence as a civilization in the coming centuries. "
Keidi Obi Awadu
MOVING BEYOND RACE-IXM.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals
Omowale Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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