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African America in the Year 2000
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MODERN THOUGHT
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1 / 1990 |
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Ramona Hoage Edelin
Ramona Hoage Edelin is president of the National Urban
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A certain quickening of the will is moving through the African-American group as the dawn of the new millennium approaches. This quickening heralds a process of cultural renewal, development, and the rebirth of mastery, greatness, and perfect equality for a people whose humanity itself has, by grace, survived what might have been utter devastation. The job of the 1900s is to leave four hundred-plus years of bare survival behind so that a new African being - in the United States and throughout the world - will cross the threshold into the year 2000.
Yes, the advance of the African group is marked by a profound new identity. No longer slave or homeless freed slave, no longer designated narrowly by race, we are now African-Americans: rooted and bonded to a continent and cultural heritage that comprise not only an accurate geopolitical identity but also an ancient and mysterious spiritual legacy. No longer excluded from the American economic and political mainstream, we are now African-Americans: builders of the wealth and the democratic foundation of this nation and her legitimate inheritors.
Following the new definition of this group, this new identity must be substantiated. This essay will probe the roles of history, identity culture, education, and political and economic empowerment in ensuring the progress that African-American group so earnestly affirms for itself at the close of the twentieth century.
Historical Perspective
The story of the African begins at the beginning - indeed is the beginning - of human history. For tens of thousands
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