The Permanent Underclass

SpiritualONE · (#1 (**permalink**))

Most Preachers Are Doing A Magnificent Job Numbing The Minds Of Our People. This video, hopefully, will expose a few of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJa_SPfs1o

The Watcher · (#2 (**permalink**))

Generally I get annoyed with speeches that go on about what was done, what the situation is with no solutions. If solutions are briefly mentioned, it's "we need to get our own businesses", "we need a...", "we should build a...." with no real talk or proposals as to how to go about doing any of these things. What it means is that "I want somebody else to do it for me but I'll sound clever suggesting the obvious". Who can't stand up and say "we need businesses"? It's not a difficult concept. Getting into the details is what counts.

But now I think about it, even though he stressed independance (at times anyway), he actually at one point DISCOURAGED people setting up businesses because "you'll go bankrupt" anyway. What kind of upliftment is that? I wasn't impressed.

Reading the comments from the predictable white people moaning about lazy blacks and handouts I reckon he could have made it clearer that his solutions were about independance as opposed to handouts. That was a brief point for him but with his long focus on welfare and his language in particular he gives the impression that nobody "gave us" anything. I don't relate. Nobody is supposed to.

Statements he made like "it's the majority's responsibility to take care of the minority" sound to my ears like dependancy culture and please look after us. I don't like that.

I know his message essentially wasn't that but it's the way he presents and came across. He only got to the united and focussed on blackspart at the end.

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Pt6 perfect example of why I got annoyed with people citing the Willie Lynch letter as a real article instead of the fictional tool of demonstration it was meant to be. It nearly undermines everything he said.

SpiritualONE · (#3 (**permalink**))

Thanks for the analysis watcher because I do appreciate feedback from other posters. This video was just an introduction. If you want to know more, check out:

http://www.powernomics.com/

The Watcher · (#4 (**permalink**))

The link doesn't work Spiritualone

SpiritualONE · (#5 (**permalink**))

This is his book:

http://www.amazon.com/PowerNomics-Na.../dp/0966170229

FredB · (#6 (**permalink**))

@Spirtual one Greetings and long time bro.

Suffice it to say that clip is a great example of why too many preachers and ministers don't have any business in politics. Not a good model of development the way I check it.

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SpiritualONE · (#7 (**permalink**))

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@Spirtual one Greetings and long time bro.

Suffice it to say that clip is a great example of why too many preachers and ministers don't have any business in politics. Not a good model of development the way I check it.

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Peace Bro. FredB,

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This videotapereveals an economist and historian named Dr. Claude Anderson. He is speaking at a church in L.A. California that is pastored by Dr. Fred Price. I just watched all 7 parts and I know for a fact that parts of it are missing because I wanted to hear about his ideas for solutions and I didn't hear anything new. I think the part with solutionswas omitted on purpose.

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I have a problem with preachersin politics as well because I happen to believe that most of the ministers these days are collaboraters of government and they have been put in the pulpit to put our people to sleep with religious mumbo jumbo like love your enemy.

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Getting back to the videotape, Dr. Claude Anderson(the speaker in the video) is an interesting character. One thing I agree with him onis the fact that we need to develop our own communities.The problem is we have too many SLAVES among us that loves licking the boots oftheir white masters.

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It's great reading your input Bro. Fred.

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BlackChild · (#8 (**permalink**))

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This was a good video. I downloaded the whole thing from google video. I advise the same. I have an audio copy of this as well I listen to on my ipod. Dr. Claude really opened my eyes with this one. I listened tentively to everything he was saying.

Here is the link to the whole google video. Click here-->

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Neferkare · (#9 (**permalink**))

A very interesting video and presentation that I believe represents progress for four reasons:

1) Sign of the Black Alpha Male
Dr. Claude Anderson represents a return of the Black Alpha Male. By ‘alpha male’ I mean to reference an anthropological expression used to describe the strong male leader of primate groups. You may have heard this expression used in relationship to people such as Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Bill, according to cultural critics, was more of an alpha male type, exhibiting all of the signs of a tenacious leader who, if necessary, would attack the competition in order to stay in power. Al, on the other hand, was/is a Beta Male. He is a natural number two type who wants to be a number one, but lacks the charisma to achieve it. You can repress a cultural group for hundreds of years by simply identifying and killing their alpha males or females. This was a common practice during slavery, proud charismatic Africans, or slaves arriving from the West Indies, were routinely killed or maimed. In the post slavery era, our Alphas rose up again, but sadly by 1970, they had all been killed, maimed or imprisoned once again. Dr. Anderson, along with a host of others are good signs that the alphas are returning.

2) Sign of Liberational Technology
That the presentation is on youtube is a sign that Africans are utilizing technology for the betterment of the people. That we are able to watch Dr. Anderson without ever visiting the church, or meeting him, or paying for access to the presentation, represents a great stride. More African will see this than if it were only offered at the church. The questions is, how can we use technolgy to create a message that, by design, is simultaneously transmitted to Africans all over the world?

3) Sign of the Doorkeeper
That Dr. Anderson made this presentation at a church is extremely important. In America, the church is still a gateway to social change in Black communities. No plan can succeed in transforming our people without it. Disagree? Consider this: the church, whether you are Christian or not, embodies and preserves an age old African tradition that most Blacks still resonate with; this would be the Oral Tradition or the Griot Tradition. Yes, hip/hop and spoken word poetry also embody this tradition but they are, obviously, relative newcomers to the game. If the concepts discussed by Dr. Anderson were common knowledge to pastors across the country and if they talked about them to congregations weekly, change would occur. Hip/hop could also play a huge role in generating awareness about Dr. Andersons’s concepts but the leadership incubator is still the church because the pastor is also a leader. For many years, churches would not allow people such as Anderson in their pulpits because he was teaching change through non-Jesus means. This was considered blasphemous. Times are a changin’.

4) Sign of Critical Discourse
Lastly, I do not agree with all that Dr. Anderson said but I don’t have to. He generates discussion and debate amongst our people and this is good. Also, while I do not agree with all of his analysis or solutions, I am convinced that he is a formidable and critical thinker. I was much educated by his presentation. He is a sign that the critical discourse that will need to occur before our revolution can lift-off is already in progress. The true measure of whether or not he is indeed a “sign” can only be measured by watching to see if there are other leaders who publicly and critically challenging the status quo. By “critically” I mean with research, hard analysis, evidence, historical perspectives, etc. This way of looking at the world can best be described as Critical Social Theory: social theory or analysis that seeks to bring about human emancipation, “to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them.” When you engage in this critique with a heart for Africans and the African Diaspora, this can best be described as Africana Social Theory. If you examine every great revolution of the world, two social phenomena always immediately preceded the climax: a) an increase in artistic expression and, b) an increase in critical political discourse.

Neferkare · (#10 (**permalink**))

Bump!

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imhotep06 · (#11 (**permalink**))

For those wanting solutions from Dr. Claude ANderson, I HIGHLY recommend you get his book PowerNomics. He is one of the few African centered writers who provides such solutions in a detailed plan. The only other people I can recall to layout something like this is Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (Black Africa - Case for a federated state), Dr. Chancellor Williams (The Destruction of Black Civilizations) & Amos Wilson (Blueprint for Black Power).

Dr. Anderson's book is a must have for anyone attempting real solutions. After reading his book, you can't say that no one has laid out a plan for economic self sufficiancy. His book, combined with the other ones I've mentioned, are for the serious student & activist wanting to make change in the social and economic arenas.

umbrarchist · (#12 (**permalink**))

I have only watched part one.

I don't have a problem with it besides impatience. The trouble with speech makers is that their training causes them spend 10 minutes saying what should fit in two. It is like they expect to brainwash and program the listeners.

Have I said anything about economic power games and stupid consumerism on this site? LOL

How about mandatory accounting?

The thing is his emphasis on White people. How many of them don't have two nickels to rub together? The system works the way it does because so many of them are dumb peasants putting up with crap.

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