The African-American community is overlooking its greatest human resource. This is the only available source that
can save it from eminent destruction. This source has a track record which takes humanity back to the very cradle of
infant civilization.
This source conceived civilization then nurtured it from its embryonic state by embodying it within its womb, then
continued to nurture it from within until it became human infant, continued to nurture it until it became a human child
and finally nurtured it until it became humanity.
This source has been the guiding hand that has led the way in developing the strong, powerful, rich and famous. It
has been the comfort zone to the meek and depressed. It has fed the hungry, clothed the naked, consoled the sad
and weeping hearts, reassured the bewildered and redirected the frustrated and misguided.
This source gave us love then taught us how to love. After giving all this, this source has always been our best friend
and never demanded anything in return. This source has always been and always will be there for us.
By now I’m sure you are wondering who or what this remarkable source can be? It is
simply…The Black Woman
There are many Oprah Winfreys out there. They simply need backing and support. If we give the black woman the
proper and sufficient backing, formal training and financial support, there is not a single human factor in the world that
could outflank her doing business. She’ll make the Japanese look like a one-legged retired point guard on the
basketball court against Michael Jordan. She has survived the most rigorous course of anyone within our midst.
Singlehandedly, she has raised some of the finest human factors imaginable. Look at Betty Shabazz. After Malcolm X
was killed she raised all those children to become fine adults. The same goes for Coretta Scott King and Mrs. Medgar
Evers.
And we allow white folks to tell us that black women can’t raise children without a man or a husband!! Many, if not
most blacks that have gone on to become rich or famous or both, have come from single parent households with the
black woman as the head. Jesse Jackson is a good example. He was born out of wedlock and his single mother was
head of their household for a period of his childhood. However, Jesse went on to become the only black man in
history that white corporate America outright feared. He and his Push Organization were at the height of their
campaign back in the seventies, when they were applying pressure on large corporations, forcing them with the threat
of national economic boycotts if they didn’t support black presence. “How quick we are to forget.” Black women can’t
raise children? “Get a life”.
In some communities, the birthrate among African Americans is as much as 70% out of wedlock. In respect to
whatever moral or otherwise position that one takes regarding this matter, reality remains. We as black people must
deal with the hand that life’s circumstances has dealt us. We must make the best of what we have and that is each
other. Let’s go forward and develop each other; to do this is to develop our own community.
Now that we have arrived at this stage in our lives and times, we are confronted with what seems to be the greatest
social crisis of our co-existence. Well, what does the coach do when his team is down to the final minutes; even
seconds and the game is close? If his team is to have a ghost of a chance of pulling it out to go on and win, what
must he do?
The answer is clear – he must go with his best and star players.
There is no other that can best be trusted with the future of the black community than the black woman, that is, if we
are to pull ourselves out of this most threatening situation.
She is the best and star player. “You know a lot of y’all ain’t ready for this… Hello!..
Now that we have tried all the rest, let’s look to the best.
Let’s look to a proven survivor, the black woman. Even to this day she excels the most among us. She too has a
stake in our survival as a people. We are all her children. Believe me, mother loves her children. She has always
been there for them and she always will.
Let’s stop allowing the white man to use her as he sees fit for his own benefit. Then we dismiss this as simply being
the white man’s method of keeping black men down. If in fact this is what the white man is doing, then he is killing two
birds with one stone. On one hand, he is keeping black men down and on the other he’s getting the cream of the crop
for productivity. If we take the initiative as Malcolm X said – put our destiny into our own hands, then we wouldn’t have
this to worry about in the first place.
Everybody from the black preacher to the white politician have addressed our problems in the black community – only
to give us Band-aid treatment to what we know is terminal cancer. It is not the black preacher alone nor the black
politician, black community leaders and certainly not the white politician which will lead blacks to true liberation.
It could very well be all these entities working in concert with the black woman leading
I’m placing all my bets on the black woman to pull us out as black people. The bookmakers have placed her as a long
shot, but she is a shoo-in and the odds on her pay 100 to 1. Black America, get your bets-on.
Again, go with the Black Woman.
Enough Said