"I am not a Marxist - I don't pretend to be, I don't even pretend to know anything about it. I am a black man in a world dominated by white oppression, and that is my total philosophy. I would like to get rid of that oppression, and that is my total objective."
--Rev. Albert Cleage
--"Myths about Malcolm X", speech delivered in Detroit, February 24, 1967
Grassroots Conference - New York, 1963
Black and white is only easier to see but this can be translated by the student as:
"I am not a master of your teachings - I don't pretend to be, I don't even pretend to know anything about it. I am a student in an institution dominated by elitists hierarchical oppression, and that is my total philosophy. I would like to get rid of that oppression, and that is my total objective." (Student liberation)And by all persons cursed with independent thought as:
"I am not a theorist - I don't pretend to be, I don't even pretend to know anything about it. I am an independent thinker in a world dominated by elitist hierarchical oppression, and that is my total philosophy. I would like to get rid of that oppression, and that is my total objective." (Independent agent liberation)
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2 comments:
Good related article:
"Psychiatric Slave No More: Parallels to a Black Liberation Psychology"
by Lauren J. Tenney
in the Radical Psychology Journal
http://www.radicalpsychology.org/vol7-1/tenney2008.html
The Grassroots conference was in Detroit, not New York. The word "New York" in the photo caption was about one of the men in the photo.
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