E. Franklin Frazier’s|The Black Bourgeoisie_Article by Dr. Matthew Quest, Video Education Player, Book Reading (RMatron) and eBook

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12 Video Playlist_“The wealthy, educated Black bourgeoisie,” Malcolm told a University of California audience in 1963, “those uppity Negroes who do escape, never reach back and pull the rest of our people out with them. The Black masses remain trapped in the slums.”

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Amazon Books Description: Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America
A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s. When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered—revered for its skillful dissection of one of America’s most complex communities, reviled for daring to cast a critical eye on a section of black society that had achieved the trappings of the white, bourgeois ideal. The author traces the evolution of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the post-war boom in the integrated North, showing how, along the road to what seemed like prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks actually lost their roots to the traditional black world while never achieving acknowledgment from the white sector. The result, concluded Frazier, is an anomalous bourgeois class with no identity, built on self-sustaining myths of black business and society, silently undermined by a collective, debilitating inferiority complex.

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WE STILL CHARGE GENOCIDE: Spirit of Mandela International Tribunal (October 22-25, 2021)

July 3, 2024December 2, 2024Frolinan Scholar Leave a comment

Last updated 09-01-2024

https://spiritofmandela.org/international-tribunal

On October 22-25 2021, the Spirit of Mandela Coalition organized and hosted an International Tribunal which we successfully charged the United States government, its states, and specific agencies with human and civil rights violations against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.

Racist police killings of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
Hyper incarcerations of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
Political incarceration of Civil Rights/National Liberation era revolutionaries and activists, as well as present day activists.
Environmental racism and its impact on Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
Public Health racism and disparities and its impact on Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
Genocide of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people as a result of the historic and systemic charges of all the above.

OUTCOMES & OPPORTUNITIES

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The 2021 International Tribunal has a unique set of outcomes and an opportunity to organize on a mass level across many social justice arenas. Upon the verdict, the results of the Tribunal will:

Codify and publish the content and results of the Tribunal to be offered in High Schools and University curriculums.
Provide organized, accurate information for reparation initiatives and community and human rights work.
Present a stronger case, building upon previous and respected human rights initiatives, on the international stage.
Establish a healthy and viable massive national network of community organizations, activists, clergy, academics, and lawyers concerned with challenging human rights abuses on all levels and enhancing the quality of life for all people.
Strengthen the demand to free all Political Prisoners and establish a Truth & Reconciliation Commission mechanism to lead to their freedom.
Establish the foundation to build a “Peoples’ Senate” representative of all 50 states, Indigenous Tribes, and major religions.