empowerment

"The most dangerous of all dependencies is to depend on your powerful oppressor to free you and share power with you, because powerful people never train powerless people to take their power away from them." John Henrik Clarke Introduction The above quote from one of the towering giants of Afrocentric thought, the late John Henrik Clarke, speaks to the reality of present day power relations between Caucasians and Afrikans. Let's amend this quote in light of the topic of this paper, Black financial empowerment. "The most dangerous of all dependencies is to depend on your wealthy oppressor to free you and share wealth with you, because wealthy people (and nations) never train poor people (and nations) to take wealth away from them." John Henrik Clarke adapted by Paul Ifayomi Grant A...

Rokeshia Renné Ashley, Florida International University In “BLACK EFFECT,” a track from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 2018 collaborative album “EVERYTHING IS LOVE,” Beyoncé describes a quintessential Black female form: Stunt with your curls, your lips, Sarah Baartman hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s features marks a departure from her historical image. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman who, in the early 1800s, was something of an international sensation of objectification. She was paraded around Europe, where spectators jeered at her large buttocks. With celebrities like Beyoncé recognizing Baartman’s contributions to the ideal Black female body – and with the curvaceous posteriors of Black women lauded on TV and celebrat...

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