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I came to the topic of Black Power and independent education while grappling with my own contradictions. In fall 1995, as a Howard University junior, I attended the Million Man March (MMM). The idea of hundreds of thousands of black men converging on the National Mall in Washington, DC, ignited my political imagination. In high school, I had aspired to open an Afrocentric academy as a symbol of my commitment to black nationalist development. In college, I continued to see black unity, Afrocentric cultural expression, and charismatic, male leadership as paths to African-American liberation. Though the MMM featured all these elements, its theme of black patriarchal solidarity and atonement struck me as curiously anemic. Keynoted by the Nation of Islam’s Min. Louis Farrakhan, the rally lacked the searing indictment of the state, white supremacy, and the accommodationist black establishment that Malcolm X had once embodied.
In subsequent years, I developed a materialist analysis of structural racism. As my critique of narrow or “bourgeois” black nationalism deepened, I recognized that the MMM and similar rituals of black cohesiveness largely ignored or denied class and gender inequities, overlooked or discounted systemic origins of racial exploitation in the capitalist system, and envisioned no wholesale transfer of wealth and capital to workers and the poor. I concluded that most contemporary expressions of black nationalism posed little or no threat to the ruling class and primarily served the interests of people like me—comfortable members of the African-American middle class.
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