It’s Time to Stop Blaming The White Man

IT’S TIME TO STOP BLAMING THE WHITE MAN

OPENING STATEMENT

The year is 1992 and institutional racism is totally ingrained into the very fabric of the American flag.
February has come and gone and the “Moments in Black History” public service announcements have all been shelved until “Black History Month” next year. The African American race is clinging frantically to the bottom rung of the economic ladder. Over half the African American children are growing up in single parent, female headed households, many of which have an income below the poverty level.
It is said that one in four African American males is involved in the criminal justice system because they are murdering and robbing one another like it is a fad. The African American church, which historically was the backbone of the African American community has joined the bandwagon. They too are ripping off the African American community, leaving it morally bankrupt and financially poorer because of the exorbitant salaries and extravagant lifestyles of their “preachers.”
As a Licensed Independent Social Worker, I am required to receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for license renewal. To obtain some of these CEUs, last year I attended the “Second Annual Black Family Summit,” held at a white-owned hotel in Columbia, SC. As I listened to the various speakers lambast the white man because of what they were not doing to help improve the economic situation of we black folks, I became very perplexed.
To begin with, here we sat in a white-owned hotel, having paid them top-dollar to be there, eating their food, all the while enriching them and their families. Logically, it made absolutely no economic sense to be there, when this conference could have easily been held at Benedict College, an Historically Black College (HBC) during their summer break, when most of the students were gone and many of the college dorm rooms were vacant! This is how it would have been prior to American Integration, which was the worst thing that has ever happened to African Americans since slavery.
At the end of that conference, I decided that I would write a paper which I hoped to be able to present at next year’s “Third Annual Black Family Summit.” The more I wrote, the more I thought, and these thoughts were added to this “paper and nine (9) months later, I had given birth to this manuscript, which I entitled: “IT’S TIME TO STOP BLAMING THE WHITE MAN!” After nine (9) months of unsuccessfully seeking someone who was interested in publishing my manuscript, I decided to self-publish it, and this is what you are about to read.
When asked how long it took to write this – my first book, I tell people I gave birth to two children; the first child was the manuscript, which took nine (9) months to give birth and the second child was the published book, which took another nine (9) months.

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