OUR COMMON GROUND :: "The Urgency of Thinking Black" with Dr. Tommy J. Curry

Published: April 12, 2015, 2 a.m.

"The Urgency of Thinking Black"\n\nA Conversation with Dr. Tommy J. Curry\n\n\n\u201cThe Negro, in the universities and colleges of Europe and America, has to do his thinking and his reading in\u2026the white man\u2019s language\u2026Our environment makes us think white, and some of us think white so persistently that we haven\u2019t the time to think Black. I urge upon you\u2026to help, with voice and pen, to hasten the coming of the morning when Negroes all over this broad land will wake up to the importance of thinking Black.\xa0\n\nJohn Edward Bruce\u2014\u201cThe Importance of Thinking Black\u201d\u20141917\n\n\u2022 WE SUFFER POLICE MURDER, POLITICAL STRANGULATION AND THE REIGN OF WHITE CONTROL\n\n\u2022 WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE.\n\n\u2022 THE CONFEDERACY IS RISING ACROSS THE LAND.\n\n\u2022 THE WAR WAGING AGAINST POOR PEOPLE.\n\nOUR reconstruction and redemption as a people will only come when we start THINKING BLACK.\n\nBROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE and BLACK\n\n\n\nCommunity Forum:\nhttp://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/\n\n\nTwitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters\n\nOCG Blog:\xa0http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com/\n\nFacebook:\xa0https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO\n\n"Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"