DR. AMOS WILSON LECTURE ON ECONOMICS AND NATIONHOOD QUOTES

1. DR. AMOS WILSON
LECTURE ON ECONOMICS AND
NATIONHOOD QUOTES
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2. DR. AMOS WILSON QUOTES
The Ultimate function of education is to secure the survival of a people.
In the schools and the universities the Black child is taught to be “dumb”. This is
the purpose of the schools. The Black child is taught to have a sense of
dependency.
The European/Asian/Arab can exist to the extent that we [Afrikans] are not in
control of our common sense, our identity, of a shared collective activity level, to
the extent that we are not in love with ourselves, or our people. We will not be
taught any of these things in their schools.
DR. AMOS WILSON LECTURE ON ECONOMICS AND NATIONHOOD QUOTES

3. No Black person has ever been taught to think like “White Folks”. If you thought
like Whites, you would want your own nations, to control your own
neighborhoods, to control your own economy, to have your own military, to
control the resources in your own ground. Blacks come out of these schools and
universities to be highly educated servants, slaves not in control of their own
destiny. You would want to remove them from power.
Knowledge must be wielded to a sense of purpose, people-hood and destiny. Then
it becomes protective of your survival as a people. It is measured by how it
protects your survival as a people, nationhood.
Change your mind, your consciousness and change your circumstances. See your
consciousness in terms of its Afrikaness, its life enhancing benefits, its
consequences for your survival and goals as a people, measured in terms of its
characteristics, what it must acquire. You must have certain intentions to do this.
These intentionalities are the intent to be truly free, truly self-determining, to create
prosperity for yourself and people, to be able to protect your interests by any
means necessary, to stop depending on white folk for your life, job and well-being.
Your mind will generate what you need when you give it a goal or purpose.
If you want to develop an Afrikan-centered curriculum, start by asking “What
problems must we solve as an Afrikan people? Our problems include the problem
of being dominated, not controlling our nations, being poor in the midst of
affluence. What goals do we want to reach? What quality of life do we want to
enjoy? What kind of people must we become in order to solve the problems that
we must solve as a people? What kind of attitudes, relationships toward ourselves,
one another, and Europeans/Asians/Arabs? What institutions must we develop so
that we can act in terms of our interests? What kind of social and educational
experiences must we expose ourselves and young to become the kind of people we
need to become to solve the problems we need to solve? Unless education, politics
and economics are designed to solve our problems as a people they are pointless.
What kind of education and knowledge and information and skills and so forth
must we develop so that we can build the institutions, develop the relationships,
attitudes to be the people we need to be? Then work from there to look at your
developmental psychology. In what ways do we grow and develop? At what point
DR. AMOS WILSON LECTURE ON ECONOMICS AND NATIONHOOD QUOTES

4. are we most ready to undergo particular kinds of experiences, so that we can match
those experiences, with the developmental readiness of ourselves so we can
maximize the kind of growth we need?
We are only free in this country to do the wrong things. We say freedom is being
able to do what we want to do-but ask yourself- What makes you want to do a
thing? Your wants and desires have been induced. What we want and desire
maintain the system of domination and destroy us as a people. Our problems,
behavior etc. have a political and economic function.
We are “alienated” so we can serve aliens. Our alienated psychology shows that
we are controlled from outside. This state of alienation is functional for
European/Asian/Arab power.
Equality. Equality with whom? With enslavers and exploiters. Or do we want a
new social system different from the current one. This is a moral issue and should
have been debated and deliberated by the Black community. The “Civil Rights
Movement” [NAACP, CORE, etc] was founded on faulty moral premise of
“Equality of opportunity and results.
You must know who and what you are as a people. Question all that you have
accepted as right and true. Your time given to certain tasks in your curriculum is
determined by your culture and history. If you say you suffer from low self-esteem,
etc. then give time to that in the curriculum. Failure to do this causes Black
children to be destroyed by the time system in these schools and universities,
which are set up to deal with the problems of Whites/Asians/Arabs.
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DR. AMOS WILSON LECTURE ON ECONOMICS AND NATIONHOOD QUOTES

5. Dr. Amos N. Wilson (1941 - 1995) Former Social Caseworker, Psychological Counselor, Supervising
Probation Officer, Training Administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, Assistant
Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York, Master Teacher, Organizer, and Author The
late, Honorable Dr. Wilson was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941. Familiarly referred to as Brother
Amos, he provided the average person with an acute analysis of where we are and the things that affect
us. He served as a council to energize our race and those in positions of influence as to how to carry out
their leadership responsibilities. Dr. Wilson's activities transcended academia into the fields of business,
owning and operating various enterprises in the greater New York area.
"When we get into social amnesia - into forgetting our history - we also forget or misinterpret the history
and motives of others as well as our motives. The way to learn of our own creation, how we came to be
what we are, is getting to know ourselves. It is through getting to know the self intimately that we get to
know the forces that shaped us as a self. Therefore knowing the self becomes knowledge of the world. A
deep study of Black History is the most profound way to learn about the psychology of Europeans and to
understand the psychology that flows from their history. If we don't know ourselves, not only are we a
puzzle to ourselves; other people are also a puzzle to us as well. We assume the wrong identity and
identify ourselves with our enemies. If we don’t know who we are then we are whomever somebody tells
us we are."
The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness," Afrikan World InfoSystems, New York, 1993 p. 38
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