From Black Agenda Report (BAR):
Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the United States.
“Samuel Yette died last week and the choice he wrote of, a choice long ago reached by this country, is a choice we’ve still not caught up to. It is a choice of this nation to more or less discard an increasingly unnecessary Black population and a choice poised to that Black population as to how to respond. Our range of acceptable responses seems to have dwindled since Yette wrote the book and much of the bases upon which he developed his concerns seem to have only worsened. Having suffered heavy losses in the fight against the national will to discard its Black population, we have accepted the choices often imposed on the defeated, the colonized.”
Samuel Yette wrote, “The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America.”
RIP
Anyone read the book? How extreme was it?
N3, the book is on point. I own a copy, have read a good bit of it. Need to finish it. Classic.
I have read it several times.Too many people read the book and concluded that Yette was saying that Black people are obsolete when what Yette correctly predicted was that Black people would become obsolete to White America. That is Black labor would no longer be needed. Black irrelevancy to white America is evident in the extremely hign unemployment numbers that have plagued urban areas and the lack of concern even from a Black President. The lack of response in the wake of hurricane Katrina is another example of the invisibility of Black people.
Yette goes on to predict genocide against Black people because of our surplus status with regards to White America.
Thanks for that! So what is the remedy? Make our selves relevant to our other melanin families around the world?
The solution maybe to re-access who we are, re-evaluate who we are and begin to build along the lines of so called “black” people that care to move forward.
We have enough wealth, education from schools and universities and enough people who are self educated and self knowing to proceed forward in this world.
I believe the rest of the melanin families around the world already know and understand our relevance. I don’t think the majority of us in the west, especially in the U.S. understand our relevance.
So what IS our relevance, and to whom?
So basically we need to all take a break from the rat race and re-evaluate and use our knowledge base to collectively move in one unified global direction?
@annarenee @amenta our relevanace to us as a global collective of melanated people some would say is to a lot. Given the atrocities and disasters. Though europeans have everything in order (so they think) they are only a very minuscule portion of the global population, if anyone needs a stable and conscious based infrastructure it is us. Do you agree? Disagree? Thoughts?