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Black Power was a political movement that arose in the middle
1960s, that strove to express a new racial consciousness among Blacks
in the United States. Robert Williams, who revived the Monroe, NC
chapter of the NAACP and later entered exile in Cuba and China, was the
first to put the actual term to effective use in the late 1950s.
Williams, who was also the first to publish the poetry of Ray Durem,
used the phrase "Black Power" in the American political context.

One main point of the Black Power Concept was the necessity for
Black people to define the world in their own terms. At times this
included a call for revolutionary political struggle to reject racism
and imperialism in the United States. As the Black Power Concept began
to grow, it also began to build resistance and condemnation from whites
and from several African American organizations, including the NAACP,
because of the anti-white message associated (often unfairly) with
Black Power.

When the Black Panther Party began to grow in the late 1960s,
it became the largest Black organization advocating Black Power.
Eventually because of the continual condemnation of the theory of Black
Power as a separatist and anti-white movement, along with the
destruction of the Black Panthers in the early 70s, the Black Power
Concept seemed to disappear. Yet, scholars of African American art and
politics still see the idea of Black Power as a strong effect on the
consciousness of Black America today, though its institutions have been
destroyed and the radical politics largely discredited and defused. In
essence, the focus on cultural autonomy and self-esteem of the Black
Power Movement has survived and, not surprisingly, grown in strength.

Okay people the following excerpt was taken from the University of Michigan's web site.

I wanted to start the week off in a big way. so what better way than this. What happened to us did we just give up? The Term Black Power today is almost non-existent. The Same people that are now running around condemning the "N" word are the same ones that caused it to grow and to go unchecked. I know this is a big leap but in the 60's and 70's there where many blacks who spoke out against the Black Power movement. Had these individuals embraced the movement instead, today maybe our children and their children would have had something tangible to hold on to rather than a dead man's "DREAM". Few people today really know anything about Black Power yeah they know the slogan they now the sign, but that is it. What black power stood for and what it was about are lost to this generation. Just think of the ways that the oppressor has tricked our own people into turning against themselves.

In my humble opinion Black People today need to turn on the NAACP and stop paying homage to this cancerous entity. I have my issues with the NAACP. This organization is nothing more than a tool that the oppressor has put into place in order to keep blacks in check. The Overseer if you will. Even on the Plantations the master would have a few blacks who would watch-over and keep the rest in line and if needed to run and tell him of any disturbances coming up. Now-a-days it is harder to that so they have sold us the idea of a group fighting for us so that we do not have to fight for ourselves. But now if you have kept up with this Blog you have already ready a post I did a while back about the NAACP and their endorsement of the PREZ.

It is our "the collective black thought" responsibility to bring the idea's and philosophies of the Black Power movement back into existence. It was these types of movements which had the biggest chance of bringing about change for Blacks in this country, that is why they where destroyed. Think about it. White America never feared the Civil Rights Movement because it was a system that basically worked within the Laws that they made. So there was no real threat to their way of life. But those movements that called for blacks to work outside of the mere idea of asking the Oppressor to treat us better met with heavy and deadly resistance. Proof of this is the Assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, when he started to speak of Blacks taking our case to the UN in an effort to fight for our Human Rights which where being violated, he was dealt with. When Martin started to stray from the conservative approach and actually started to listen to some of these other blacks ie. Shabazz he became a liability and had to be dealt with. This trend goes on and on. Our Freedom of speech only goes as far as they allow it to.

So it is on this day that I call out to all of my people to go out and Pay your Power Bill, it is time to turn the lights back on.