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“Black Power, A Basic Understanding” by Walter Rodney
“Black Power, A Basic Understanding”, black isn’t as basic as Walter Rodney states it. This chapter is very interesting in which it describe the state at which blacks, non white, are also known as colored people and are powerless due to the white supremacy of white power. As the write starts off, “Black Power is a doctrine about black people”, but not all black people know nor understand the notion of being black. “I have chosen skin color as essentially the most binding factor in our world”, for all people including those not in the United States, but in the islands, or those of the same social class background will be classified as being black due to the mere fact of a labeling process white created the writer explains. “In the U.S.A. if one is not white, then one is black”, as the writer states as also true in many other places such as, “In Britain if one is not white then one is colored”, and in South Africa “one can be white, colored or black depending upon how white people classify you”, the writer describes how whites are to better understand the correlation made between the whites and white power. So as the writer entails, being black isn’t decided by white people but rather “by White Power’, because if you are black then you’re excluded from power for “Power is kept pure milky white”.
As mentioned, blacks are labeled by the white world and usually become “the most important thing about him”, as the write puts it. As he continues to point out, “literally whites can not tell one black from another”, him being fat or thin, intelligent or stupid, criminal or sportsman for we all just black. The writer finds reasons that white people inability to distinguish the millions of black people from one another whose homelands are in Asia, Africa, and few in the Americas, is because “white people do not personally know many black people”, the...
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