Meeting POWERS

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The meeting of men in dangerous times to discuss each step of an intention to liberate, or offer freedom to bound and chained people on both sides of the equation of slavery and neo-slavery was daunting. But in those moments the negotiations of the first 70 years of the 20th century Negroes did not ask of Power all of the questions a bound people could not ask, and needed to ask. It is reflected in the 21st century by what Black Americans do and don't do.

Free? Are Black Americans free? Have Black Americans evolved beyond the dream of being able to eat with white people? Is freedom defined by dependence? Can a person, or a people be free if their freedom is handed to them piecemeal? If a people treasure their tragedies are they free? Is freedom alive within someone whose image of themselves comes from outside themselves? Are a people free who define themselves from outside themselves? Are people free disconnected from their Mother Land intellectually, and spiritually or emotionally?

I don't think so, but there are millions of Black Americans who disagree with me. Such is the plight and spiritual dilemma of the Wasicun Sapa, the Black White People. - Gregory E. Woods 3.17.13