The reason we are in this pitiful condition is because our leaders have never taught us that we should unify and go for self instead of relying on our oppressors to give to us that which we, in unity, could provide and produce for ourselves…”It is almost unbelievable to see and talk with our people and find in their talk, in this modern rise of advanced education for all, that our very educators and intellectual people desire nothing more than to remain in the “free” mental shackles of slavery with nothing constructive for themselves and their people.  After 400 years (of which one hundred of these years the once-slave masters claim they have freed us), there has not been much of an effort on our part to go free in “deed”.

 Imagine people out here with B.A., B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees still begging the white man to give them a job and to care for them as their fathers did in slavery times. This actually shows that the more highly educated and trained our people are, the more they want to be like white people and be recognized as one of them throughout the government of America.”–pg.136(o.s.h.a.)

   You never thought that America would be unable to give you a job, because you had thought that they were the gods. Now you are waking up finding out that they cannot even help themselves…”You do not like doing right. You do not like doing something for self. You glorify begging the white man to do for you that which you can do for yourself. I warn you that the day is not far distant when you will be forced to do something for yourself because the white man is bound to drop you. And that he knows, but he is not telling you. He is allowing you the chance to make a fool of yourself and be caught at that time like a grasshopper who enjoyed summer weather. But cold weather kills the grasshopper. It freezes him to death because he has no house to lodge in.”–pg.137(o.s.h.a.)

Food stamp program cuts lead to ‘staggering’ increase in need (via PBS News Hour)

JUDY WOODRUFF: Thanksgiving week is naturally a time when closer attention is paid to the role of food in our daily lives, including concerns over how we get it, the cost, the nutritional value, and why some don’t have enough to eat. We will be looking…