Blacks With Power| Make America Great Through Black Power

Black identity has always been threatening to American Society. It's long been debated and suppressed. Black folk ourselves are the worst purveyors of this fear of a Black identity, because at several checkpoints in our American sojourn we have - en masse - encouraged each other to deny our Blackness in favor of the "American melting pot." And this fear is the subject of a recent FBI report that should have us concerned. (Article continues below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zJi2pTVuLo Yes - there was the Black Power movement of the 70s and who could forget James Brown imploring us to "say it loud" that we are Black and proud? But then we must also understand the only reason that song was necessary is because that statement was not something that was usually proclaimed loudly - if at all. And yes, we must remember the "Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism." In those early days of struggle, before emancipation and before Frederick Douglass helped shift the perspective of Black Americans, establish