Post a book that ALL Black folks need to read
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Here is a site that has alot of ebooks that you can download and read. Much of the books in this thread are on that site. Here is the link below
http://www.thisiskoi.com/
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Yo this site looks piff....
Ashay By The Bay
http://www.ashaybythebay.com/
https://sankofa.com/videobookscafe/pages/About-us.html
There used to be a black ring maker in my area who made class rings for the area, but he died a couple of years ago and never passed down the business. As of right now, I know of only one and it's in Maynard Mass and It's called Mestique Boutique. Hopefully they are still in business.
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Cruse goes in on everybody. Booker T, Garvey, King, Black Panthers, black communists. He takes them all to task. Reads like How To Rob by 50. Dissing everyone.
Cruse goes in on everybody. Booker T, Garvey, King, Black Panthers, black communists. He takes them all to task. Reads like How To Rob by 50. Dissing everyone.
Criticism is good, dissing them just to diss.....
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Criticism is good, dissing them just to diss.....
It's not the Wendy Williams show.It's intellectual criticism with Cruse's own recommendations for black economic empowerment. Trust me it's a great read. Here's a recent review.
...When Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967, he aimed his verbal artillery in so many directions that it seems as if some of the missiles are still landing four decades later. (At the time of his death in 2005, Cruse was professor emeritus of African-American studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.)
Crisis was certainly a product of its time – a moment when the alliances of the Civil Rights movement were disintegrating fast, and arguments over the direction of African-American politics and culture filled the air. Cruse took the measure of various ideologies and found them wanting. He had no use for what he saw as the illusions of the integrationist agenda. He was a black nationalist, yet quite pointed in criticizing the influence of Marcus Garvey and other pan-Africanists from the Caribbean. It was obvious that Cruse owed a lot to Marxist theory -- but he complained about the blind spots of radicals spreading the gospel of proletarian revolution to the ghetto. At the same time, he was critical of leading figures within the African-American arts.
At just about the time Cruse was finishing work on his manuscript, the call for “Black Power” began to be heard among younger activists. But he kept a distance from that slogan, too: “In effect,” he wrote, “it covers up a defeat without having to explain either the basic reasons for it or the flaws in the original strategy; it suggests the dimensions of a future victory in the attainment of goals while, at the same time, dispelling the fears of more defeats in the pursuit of such goals.”
It was a cantankerous book, then. But there was more to it than that. In arguing with everybody, the author was also, doubtless arguing with himself -- for along the way he must have adopted at least some of the positions under attack in its pages. Rereading The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual not long ago, I came away convinced that is one of the classic works of American cultural criticism.
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee119#ixzz2uvDaD1zM
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Tell me what's his problem with Garvey
Cruse goes in on everybody. Booker T, Garvey, King, Black Panthers, black communists. He takes them all to task. Reads like How To Rob by 50. Dissing everyone.
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I can't recite the exact arguments from the book since I read it about 8 years ago. As I vaguely recall, he thought that Garvey was highly naive in his calls for an exodus back to Africa.
Cruse quotes a speech Garvey made before a black audience in 1922:
"When I came down here [from New York City to Raleigh, North Carolina] I had to get on a white man’s train, on a white man’s railroad. I landed in a white man’s town, came out here on a white man’s car, and am now speaking from a white man’s platform. Where do you Negroes come in? If I had depended on getting here on anything that you have furnished I would have been walking for six months."
He felt statements like this were pompous. He didn't believe Garvey had a strong enough grasp of the black American condition and believed that his prescriptions were highly flawed.
I really can't do much justice to his argument after all this time. I didn't agree with all of Cruse's arguments but it's still a fascinating read. I need to pick it back up and read it again.
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Yea I see no problem with that Garvey quote