I think you’re both right. Racism has become institutionalized. People can be racist and don’t even know it. The examples are everywhere. From paying higher interest rates for loans with the same qualifications as whites, that is if you get the loan in the first place, to employment, where just recently, a Sister acted like she was white and submitted the same resume and received many more job offers, to the so called justice system, where an ounce of cocaine gives you less time then a tenth of that in crack. This is ridiculous when you consider, you can’t make crack without cocaine. Having said that, we can’t expect people outside our community to care more about us then we do about ourselves.

Black people have become immune to the problems in our community unless it affects them. Unless something major happens, we will not come together, and even then, we don’t stay together long enough to solve the problem. As I’ve said in my book, we can no longer blame the white man for our problems. He created them and still capitalizes on them, but we as a people have continued these problems by not working together to solve them. Until we start working together to solve the problems in our community, we will continue to have them.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness