There are hardly any grounds for disputing the fact that Black people in America are surrounded by “natural enemies:” who kidnapped us from Africa; enslaved us for 300 years; who lynched us for another 100 years; and who up until this very moment are fiendishly plotting to foil any advancement for which we might be eligible, to keep us forever on our knees before them. That goes without saying, unless of course you mention Oscar Grant in Oakland, or Amadou Diallo in New York City, or James Craig Anderson, a Black man, who just the other day was beaten by two carloads of White punks yelling “White Power,” before they repeatedly drove over his body in their cars.
But we are reminded by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam for 45 years, that we—Black people in America—are Our Own Worst Enemy. Continue reading ‘The ‘OOWE Syndrome’—Our Own Worst Enemy’
