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| A quote to take into consideration |
There are a plethora of issues that faces the black community and society at large today. Whether those issues be obesity, education, failing health, the fracturing of the family structure, gang violence and the devaluing of life, to the over sexualization of our youth, and even self hatred that permeates throughout every avenue of black society.We all know of and have seen the problems and when considering them all it can be discouraging. Huey P. Newton once wrote about the differences in reactionary and revolutionary suicide. Reactionary suicide, he stated was the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness. We see this very same conditions in our own communities. Ignorance breeds fear, fear breeds hate. When one is hated they internalize that hate and this eventually leads to destructive behavior towards others and finally the destruction of self, suicide. Through it all the truth still remains. Every problem has both a root and a solution, and if the root of hatred is ignorance, then it is time to lay ignorance to rest.
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